— Last checked and updated May 1, 2020 by Leah Vecchione, Langara College Library & Information Technology practicum student.

The Basics

King, Amy & Sarah Clark. “The 2017 VIDA Count.” VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, June 17, 2018. Compiles demographic data on how various underrepresented groups and populations are reviewed, awarded grants, etc. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Visit Site

Low, Jason (JASONTLOW). “Where Is the Diversity in Publishing? The 2015 Diversity Baseline Survey Results.” Lee & Low Books, Jan. 26, 2016. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Pope, Colin. “We Need to Talk About the Canon: Demographics in The Norton Anthology.” The Millions, April 29, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article 

A Deeper Dive

2018 Canadian Book Publishing Diversity Baseline Survey – Summary Report. Association of Canadian Publishers, March 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Report

Agosto, Denise E., Sandra Hughes-Hassell & Catherine Gilmour-Clough. “The All-White World of Middle-School Genre Fiction: Surveying the Field for Multicultural Protagonists.” Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 34, No. 4, Dec. 2003, pp. 257–75. ResearchGate. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Bala, Sharon. “Canada Reads and the Gender Gap.” Sharon Bala, March 25, 2018. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Degen, John & Harry Thurston. “Canadian Writers Working Harder While Earning Less.” The Writers’ Union of Canada, 2015. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Press Release and Report

Demand for Diversity: A Survey of Canadian Readers. Booknet Canada, May 1, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Report

“The Diversity Baseline Survey: Taking a Look in the Mirror.” Lee & Low Books. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Harvey, Melinda & Julieanne Lamond. “2017 Stella Count.” The Stella Prize, 2018. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Report

Horning, Kathleen T. “Publishing Statistics on Children’s Books about People of Color and First/Native Nations and by People of Color and First/Native Nations Authors and Illustrators.” Cooperative Children’s’ Book Center, University of Wisconsin/Madison, last updated July 5, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Report

Kean, Danuta, ed. “Writing the Future: Black and Asian Writers and Publishers in the UK Marketplace.” Spread the Word, April 15, 2015. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Report

McArdle, Molly. “‘You Will Be Tokenized’: Speaking Out About the State of Diversity in Publishing.” Brooklyn Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016. McArdle discusses the results of the Lee & Low industry study and what it means to speak about racism in the publishing industry, including the experiences of PoC in the publishing industry. (Accessed 05/01/2020)  Visit Site

Lo, Malinda. “2014 LGBT YA by the Numbers.” Diversity in YA, Dec. 10, 2014. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Report

Rawson, Casey. “Are All Lists Created Equal? Diversity in Award-Winning and Bestselling Young Adult Fiction.” The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, June 14, 2011. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Shah, Angilee. “A Survey of Who Works in the Book Industry Gives Us a Clue about Why It’s Not Diverse.” Public Radio International, Jan. 28, 2016. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

“The 2018 Black SFF Writer Survey Report.” FIYAH-Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Visit Site

Wilson, Kristian. “How Diverse Is Children’s Literature?” Bustle, Sept. 14, 2016. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Survey Shows “No Discernible” Progress Diversifying Publishing, by Kara Yorio. Jan 28, 2020 | Filed in News & Features. Read article

Diversity in publishing – still hideously middle-class and white? by Arifa Akbar, Sat 9 Dec 2017 08.00. Read Article