Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace

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201 201 Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, 49n2 Aboriginal writing, 79, 81–82; and award systems, 87–88; and celebrity systems, 87–88; challenges faced by, 50–53, 82–83; expectations, 77–78, 83, 88, 91; and funding equity, 90; mainstream attitudes toward, 51–53; and marketing, 84; publishers, 89; subject matter, 56–57 Abram, Renee K., 84, 84n1 absinthe (magazine), 54 adaptation rights, 180 agents, working with, 19, 38–39, 68–69, 84, 90, 120–21, 123, 138–40, 159, 162, 177, 179–82 Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri, 84–86, 84n1 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, 111–12, 113, 116, 151 Alexie, Sherman, 87 Anansi, 101, 104, 109, 144, 170 Antigonish Review, The, 172 Armstrong, Jeannette, 51, 87 Arsenal Pulp Press, 40, 160, 164 Atwood, Margaret, 58, 91, 140, 185 avant-garde writing. See experimental and unorthodox writing award systems, 7–8, 22, 58–59, 71–72, 87–88, 105–7, 143–44, 162–63, 173, 183–84 B.C. Arts Council, 150 Baker, Marie Annharte, 53 Banff Centre for the Arts, 36–37 Behrens, Peter, 143–44 Berger, Thomas, 55 bestsellers lists, 12, 134–35 Birdsell, Sandra, 64 Bök, Christian, 122, 128; and agents, 19; Crystallography, 11, 20, 23; and editors, 18–19; and electronic publishing, 26; Eunoia, 11–12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26; and foreign rights, 24, 24n4; and funding agencies, 11–17, 15–16; and Griffin Prize, 22–23; and production process, 18–19; and working conditions, 13–14 book design, 161–62 books: as commodities, 21, 184; demise of, 124–25 bookstores: chain, 57–58, 70–71, 135n2, 136–37, 163, 186–87; independent, 57–58, 70–71 Borges, Jorge Luis, 95, 95n1 Bowling, Tim, 127 Index Index 202 202 Boyden, Joseph, 58, 88; Three Day Road, 78, 87 Brand, Dionne, 41, 140, 168, 177, 188 Brossard, Nicole, 105–6 Budde, Robert, 128 Bukowski, Denise, 134, 138, 177, 179–80 Buschek Books, 98, 106 Calgary Herald, 123 Campbell, Maria, 51, 52–53, 87; Halfbreed, 53 Canada Council for the Arts, 5–6, 12–13, 16–17, 19–22, 27–31, 35–38, 47–54, 57–58, 61–63, 79–80, 92–93, 95–96, 106, 110–16, 130–31, 146, 150–51, 168–69, 172; and Aboriginal writers, 35n3, 48–52, 117; and diversity, 115; Explorations program, 150; juries, 62–63, 152; Mid-Career Writers’ grant, 151; policy changes, 49, 115–16, 173–74; politics surrounding, 114; and reading events, 122, 178; surveys, 99; writer-inresidence programs, 151 Canada Reads, 71, 185 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 49, 91, 140, 171, 178, 185 Canadian Geographic, 123 Carey, Peter, 125 celebrity systems, 45, 65, 71, 71–74, 87–88, 132 chapbooks, 166–67 Choyce, Lesley, 175–76 Chrystos, 54 Clarke, Austin, 177, 188 Clarke, George Elliott, 56; adaptation rights, 180; and agents, 177, 179–82; and award systems, 173, 183–84; Beatrice Chancy, 168, 169; and Canada Council for the Arts, 170; and editors, 176–77; and foreign rights, 182; and funding agencies, 168–71; George and Rue, 173, 176–77, 179–80, 181, 182; as juror, 169–72; One Heart Broken into Song, 180; and reading events, 178–79, 186–87; and recognition, 173; and reviews, 180; and small presses, 175–76; Whylah Falls, 176, 178, 184–85; and writing process, 172–73; writing process, 176–77 Coach House Books, 18–20, 60, 170 Coady, Lynn, 141 commodification of writers, 45 Cormorant Books, 141–42 Coteau Books, 134 Cowan, Doris, 141 Coyote, Ivan, 54 creative writing programs, 97, 99–100, 126–29 Crummey, Michael, 141 cultural marketplace, 63–64, 66, 97, 132–34, 147–48 Dartmouth Book Awards, 173 Delvoye, Wim, 27 Department of Heritage, 35, 117 Desh Pradesh, 41, 41n5 Dewdney, Christopher, 17–18 Dickinson, Emily, 74 Index 203 203 distribution, 83–84 Doubleday Canada, 134, 141 Douglas & McIntyre, 79 Dublin Impac Awards, 173 Dumont, Jimmy, 51 Dumont, Marilyn, 53 e-books, 124–25 economic solvency: of publishers, 20–21 editors, working with, 39–40, 55–56, 66–67, 84–86, 101–102, 121–22, 140–41, 158, 176–77 Eichner, Hans, 149 Erdrich, Louise, 87 experimental and unorthodox writing, 11–12, 13, 16–17, 24, 27, 95–96 Faulkner, William, 71, 71n1 festivals, literary, 43–44 Fiddlehead, The, 172 Fifth House Publishers, 60 financial challenges, 50, 73–74 Frutkin, Mark, 142–43 funding agencies, 11–17, 15–16, 20– 21, 28–34, 66–67, 92–94, 130, 150–52...