News & Events

• Charlotte Gill On Tour: Vancouver Island Charlotte Gill will be on Salt Spring Island and touring Vancouver Island starting February 4, 2012, talking about life in the forest as a tree-planter and about her book on the subject Eating Dirt ... more >>
• Trena White acquires "America, But Better" for Douglas & McIntyre Douglas & McIntyre associate publisher Trena White has acquired world rights, all languages, to Chris Cannon and Brian Calvert’s America, But Better: The Canada Party Manifesto, born from the authors’ hilarious viral video campaign announcing the nation of Canada’s candidacy in the 2012 U ... more >>
• Download the Writers' Trust Educational Guide As part of an excellent initiative to introduce contemporary non-fiction into the school curriculum, The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize has developed this extensive Teacher's Guide for each of this year's finalists, including of course, Charlotte Gill's Eating Dirt ... more >>
• Carmen Blogs at Canada Reads January 9th to 13th is Carmen Aguirre Week over at Canada Reads, which means five days of online attention for Something Fierce a major contender this year ... more >>
• Ice Pilots Reality TV Star Mikey McBryan Launches Ice Pilots Book Join Buffalo Airways’ Mikey McBryan, star of The Ice Pilots TV series, to celebrate the launch of The Ice Pilots: Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North by Michael Vlessides ... more >>
• Eating Dirt shortlisted for the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Greystone Books is delighted to announce that Charlotte Gill’s Eating Dirt has been shortlisted for the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction ... more >>
• Bestselling author and CBC Radio personality Grant Lawrence has signed a two-book deal with D&M Publishers Grant Lawrence is the Vancouver-based author of Adventures in Solitude, which won the BC Book Prize for Booksellers’ Choice of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, the largest non-fiction prize in Canada, Adventures in Solitude being the only debut of the five finalists ... more >>
• D&M Publishers to sell foreign rights for imprint New Society Publishers D&M Publishers is pleased to announce that its Vancouver head office has taken over the responsibility of selling foreign rights for its imprint New Society Publishers, based on Gabriola Island, in British Columbia ... more >>
• Something Fierce and Eating Dirt nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Douglas & McIntyre and Greystone Books are delighted to announce that Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter and Charlotte Gill’s Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe have been longlisted for the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction ... more >>
• Charlotte Gill’s Eating Dirt nominated for the 2012 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Greystone Books is delighted to announce that Charlotte Gill’s Eating Dirt has been nominated for the 2012 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction ... more >>