Deal News: Disability rights advocate Amanda Leduc’s new memoir, THE POSSIBLE UNIVERSE acquired by Anne Collins and Lauren Park at Random House Canada, for publication Spring 2026!
We are thrilled to announce that author of DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE, Amanda Leduc’s THE POSSIBLE UNIVERSE, a hybrid lyric memoir about grief and friendship, in which Amanda turns to the cosmos as a way of making sense of the death of her best friend, intertwining the unfathomable nature of loss with the equally unfathomable nature of the universe around us, to Anne Collins and Lauren Park at Random House Canada, for publication Spring 2026, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (Canadian English).
Amanda Leduc is a disabled writer and author of the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, which was published by Coach House Books in 2020 and shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction and longlisted for the 2020 Barbellion Prize. She is also the author of the novel The Miracles of Ordinary Men, published in 2013 by ECW Press. Her novel The Centaur’s Wife (2021) is out with Random House Canada. Her essays and stories have appeared across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia, and she speaks regularly across North America on accessibility and the role of disability in storytelling. Born in British Columbia, she has lived in Ontario, England, BC, and Scotland, and holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews. Amanda has cerebral palsy and presently makes her home in Hamilton, Ontario, where she lives with a very lovable, very destructive dog and serves as the Communications and Development Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity, Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and stories. Amanda is at work on a nonfiction book on the connection between grief and the universe (proposal available).
Congratulations Amanda!