[This post is an elaboration of my tweets from Dec 10, 2013.] Another Kickstarter for a diverse anthology flit across my Twitter timeline yesterday. I used to support these automatically, either with money or by sharing them with my social networks. Now, I hesitate. I opened this project and skimmed the description until I got… Read Post
Publishing
3 Ways Literary Agents Can Increase Diversity in Publishing
I’m not an agent. My internship at a literary agency does not make me an agenting expert. But I am a publishing “gatekeeper” of sorts and I hold literary agents in high-esteem because of their role as the writer’s champion. This week, Lee and Low asked several literary agents to share their thoughts on the… Read Post
#DiverseCanLit Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
CanLit made headlines last week because of sexist and racist comments by Canadian novelist David Gilmour. The drama began with his interview in Hazlitt magazine where he said he didn’t teach books by women, only “serious heterosexual guys,” then continued in the National Post where he made a bad situation worse. The Canadian publishing industry… Read Post
#DiverseCanLit TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
I often rely on anecdotal information when I speak about the lack of diversity in Canadian publishing. I’ll talk about the demographics of my publishing class, my difficulty finding diverse books on shelves, and compare the number of books about black children to the number of books about dinosaurs. However the work by Cooperative Children’s… Read Post