Canongate unveils host of promotions across departments

A host of promotions at Canongate will see Anna Frame, publicity director, moving to communications director, with Lucy Zhou moving to head of publicity.

Aisling Holling will move to senior publicity executive, and Sasha Cox is moving to head of sales. Meanwhile, Gaia Poggiogalli will become audio and digital manager, and Valeri Rangelov will move to designer.

Frame joined Canongate in 2008 as a publicity assistant, and has worked on a range of publicity campaigns with authors including Amy Liptrot, Nick Cave, Ian Rankin and Rick Rubin. In her new role as communications director, she will formally take on the corporate communications for the company, in addition to her role in the publicity department.

Zhou has been with Canongate for five years, working on some of the biggest names on Canongate’s list, including Matt Haig, Maaza Mengiste, Jess Kidd and Ayobami Adebayo. She will now be moving to head of publicity.

Holling, who is being promoted to senior publicity executive, joined the company in 2022. She worked on campaigns including for Louise Welsh’s The Second Cut and Geoff Dyer’s The Last Days of Roger Federer, as well as poetry collections The Fire People and More Fiya, for which she received a double PPC shortlisting. 

In sales, Poggiogalli will become audio and digital manager, having rejoined Canongate in 2021 after almost two years away at Audible and Bolinda. In that time, she has contributed to the creation of audiobooks including Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply and Nick Cave’s Faith, Hope and Carnage. She has also worked on improving the publisher’s audio production processes, expanding its list of studio partners and managing key digital sales relationships.

Cox, who joined Canongate from PRH as senior UK sales manager in 2021, will become head of UK sales. Since then, she has worked on accounts including Waterstones, Ireland and Faber. 

Finally, Rangelov has been promoted to designer. He has worked on covers including Claudia Hammond’s The Art of Rest, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, and Courttia Newland’s River Called Time, which was named one the top 10 best book covers of the decade at the ABCD Awards last month.