Congratulations to Richard Van Camp who has been shortlisted for the ReLit Awards in short fiction for his collection of stories The Moon of Letting Go. The 10th Annual ReLit Awards Party is on October 20th at 8:30pm, Opening Night Event, Ottawa International Writers’ Festival.
Speaking with Enfield & Wizenty associate editor Maurice Mierau and Colophon prize winner Michelle Berry, Laura Godfrey shares the story of the birth of this prize for fiction with Quill & Quire readers. Explaining that Great Plains wanted to take E&W national, “attracting readers - and submissions - from all over Canada” the article quotes Mierau’s reason for the creation of the Colophon prize: “What we wanted was fiction that would surprise us, and people with interesting voices and compelling manuscripts”.
Authors interested in submitting manuscripts for the $5,000 Colophon prize for fiction 2011 are invited to do so by December 30, 2010.
Rights for Lisa Pasold’s debut novel Rats of Las Vegas have been sold to IPC Konyvek Kft in Hungary. This exciting new beginning was negotiated by literary agent Carolyn Swayze. Congratulations Lisa!
Congratulations to Duff Roblin, author of Speaking for Myself: Politics and Other Pursuits, who was selected as the Greatest Manitoban by readers of the Winnipeg Free Press. Read all about it here.
It was a full house for the launch of Enfield & Wizenty and our first titles; Widows of Hamilton House by Christina Penner, 10 Things to Ask Yourself in Warsaw, by Barbara Romanik, and The Tristan Chord, by Bettina von Kampen on September 18th at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg. All three authors were in fine form and E & W editor Maurice Mierau was an able host. For those of you who missed the event, we will soon be posting video highlights.
Great Plains welcomes back Anita Daher. Anita, who was the Marketing Director in 2005 and 2006, joins us as Associate Editor Teen Fiction. She has worked in the book publishing industry for more than a decade, reviewing books, leading workshops, and writing young adult novels. Her fifth book, Two Foot Punch, was released in October.
People are talking about Enfield & Wizenty! The imprint was featured in both the Quill & Quire and in the Winnipeg Free Press this month. You can read all about it here.
