Coach House Books is thrilled to announced that Michael Blouin's debut novel, Chase and Haven, has won the 2009 ReLit Award in the novel category! Congratulations, Michael!
Coach House Books learned some very exciting news on September 15: Maggie Helwig has been shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award for her novel, Girls Fall Down!
Celebrate the best of the nearly 300 small presses that took part in last fall's Expozine small press, comic and zine fair! Six prizes will be awarded, recognizing the best book, comic and zine sold at Expozine (in both official languages).
Winners will be chosen by an esteemed panel of judges out of the hundreds of publications submitted at Expozine 2008. Admission is free, beer and liquor specials will be in effect, and MC, Ed Fuller, will regale the crowd.
Sylvia Legris' Nerve Squall is the Canadian winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize, awarded last night at a ceremony in Toronto's Distillery District. Kamau Brathwaite won the international prize for his book, Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan University Press).
Coach House will, as of February 14, offer free digital downloads with the purchase of any print edition (provided, of course, the book currently exists in e-format). You buy one of our print books, the electronic book is yours for the taking.
Sounds great, but how does it work? One of two ways:
Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington is this year’s recipient of the Robert R. Reid lifetime achievement award for excellence in book art. The award is given annually by the Alcuin Society, a non-profit dedicated to preserving and celebrating Canadian contributions to print culture.
Previous Robert R. Reid recipients include former Coach House typesetter and designer Glenn Goluska.
In a two-part interview with Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington, Nigel Beale, from the Biblio File podcast, delves into the intriguing combination of factors that inspired Bevington's passion for print culture and took Coach House to the forefront of Canadian book design.
The interview is both a journey through the history of technologies and typefaces, as well as an advice manual for collectors seeking rare pieces of Canadiana.
