Tomorrow! Excited to read from Stock and celebrate other new books at the Edmonton Poetry Festival.

The Writers' Guild of Alberta is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2026 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, sponsored by the Benediktson Family Stock — Jennifer Bowering Delisle Beaver Hills Forever — Conor Kerr Dog and Moon — Kelly Shepherd

The Single Onion celebrates National Poetry Month with an event featuring four great poets: Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Ian Fitzgerald, Jun-Long Lee, and Conner Levi. Thursday, April 16, 2026 7:00 PM MT Shelf Life Books 1302 4 St SW Calgary Learn more here: writersguild.ca/single-onion-219

Thrilled to share that Stock has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Thanks to everyone who has read and shared this book!

Stock is one of the California Review of Books’ best poetry collections of 2025! calirb.com/the-best-poe...

Looking forward to @kimmannix.bsky.social’s book launch tmrw! A bit of my blurb: Mannix meets the current moment with a resonant anguish. Yet in memory, in motherhood, and in love, she also finds “something like wonder/ sticking its bony finger in my fat dread.”

See you soon Toronto!

Launch was great.✨ Thank you @newestpress.bsky.social @jenbdelisle.bsky.social

My Edmonton book launch info!

Tomorrow night! I’m thrilled to be hosting the launch of @jidesalawu.bsky.social’s wonderful collection. I have a lot of questions lined up to ask him!

Join the WGA for a free workshop next month at the Ortona Armoury! Facilitated by Daniel Poitras, we encourage writers to Work with the Abyss. Register ahead here. writersguild.ca/free-writing...

Thank you Edmonton!

#yeg PARENTS. How's it going? Do you need a little coffee break? Bring the kiddos down to Audreys 10am-12pm weekdays. We're reading stories. Because we care about parents, kids and especially our teachers. #storytimewithaudreys #booksky

Reposting as the first version was somehow missing the alt text. Incredibly lucky to have @kimmannix.bsky.social and @prairievixen.bsky.social read with me today. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Stock!

Incredibly lucky to have @kimmannix.bsky.social and @prairievixen.bsky.social read with me today. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Stock!

Thanks so much for sharing!

I’m launching Stock this afternoon at Audreys at 2! The wonderful @prairievixen.bsky.social and @kimmannix.bsky.social will be reading too, and helping me perform pieces in multiple voices. Hope to see you there! www.audreys.ca/events/34197...

My new poetry collection is a feminist response to stock photography, so over the next couple of days I'm sharing a few images with lines that they inspired. Here are the first four! chbooks.com/Books/S/Stock

This is a brilliant poetry collection. Hope to see you at Jide’s launch!

So happy for Danica Klewchuk. The launch of Standing in the Footprints of Beasts (@newestpress.bsky.social) last night was a wonderful event

Tonight! So excited to host this event and chat with Danica about her wonderful book. At Arts Hab, 10131 97st, Edmonton. Sept 23, 6:30 @newestpress.bsky.social

The Writers' Guild of Alberta is providing free consultations with regional Writers-in-Residence for our members in under-served areas. Get one-on-one feedback on your writing by booking by September 30th, 2025. writersguild.ca/2025-regiona...

Happy pub day to Circumtrauma by Jumoke Verissimo! From one of Africa’s most acclaimed writers, poetry about the Nigeria-Biafra War. Everyone carries a piece of the war within them: what happens when we neglect to consider each individual’s story? Learn more here: chbooks.com/Books/C/Circ...

Edmonton friends! We are looking forward to the Harvest Book Fair at the CKUA building on September 27 and 28 from 1 to 5 pm. Come down and enjoy Edmonton's vibrant book culture. Big thanks to Hungry Zine for all their hard work. https://bit.ly/4px8hM3 ##books #bookstores #publishers #festival

Thank you to @canadianpoets.bsky.social for re-running my poem "Alarm to Threat" today in their Poetry Pause series. ❤️ This poem will be in my forthcoming debut collection Confirm Humanity poets.ca/alarm-to-thr...

We are excited to announce that the Writers' Guild of Alberta is now accepting applications to our 2026 Mentorship program! Seven apprentices will be paired with mentors in any genre. Applications close October 24, 2025. Learn more: writersguild.ca/2026-mentors...

Congrats to Danica Klewchuk! Excited that readers can now get their hands on this sharp book

My kids are voracious readers, but I think a lot about attention in the digital age, and the stakes are high: “The neural pathways…built through sustained attention to text, are the same ones that enable complex reasoning, empathy, and the kind of patient thinking that democracy requires.”

On Thursday, October 23rd, please join us for Coach House Books Fall Poetry Launch at Society Clubhouse (967 College St, Toronto)! There will be readings from Eric Schmaltz, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Rosanna Deerchild, and Jumoke Verissimo. RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...

📚 Have you joined the @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social book club yet?? Their September read is an excellent one, if we do say so ourselves, our very own 🪲A Story Can Be Told About Pain🪲 the debut novel from award-winning poet Lisa Martin. buff.ly/jUdHYO1 #NeWestPress #LisaMartin #ReadCanadian

✨ NEW REVIEW✨ for our very own Lisa Martin in Alberta Views and her brilliant debut novel A Story Can Be Told about Pain. buff.ly/bIQztIG #NeWestPress #NewReview #Fall2025 #ReadLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian

Celebrate the release of Stock, and hear Jennifer Bowering Delisle read, at Coach House Books' Fall Poetry Launch on October 23! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...

Stock by Jennifer Bowering Delisle is officially out in the world! ‘Woman laughing alone with salad’: humorous and ironic feminist dialogue with stock photography. Learn more here: chbooks.com/Books/S/Stock

Today Stock is officially out! Thanks so much to everyone who has preordered the book. I’ll be having a launch in Edmonton on Oct 5 @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social and in Toronto Oct 23 with other @coachhousebooks.bsky.social authors. Would love to see you there! chbooks.com/Books/S/Stock

Join us for our first CNFC webinar of the 2025-26 season! FREE for members. $30 for non-members. Register here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/programming/...

There’s still space in our October issue! Send us your poems and pinhole photography by September 7 to be considered! guidelines: pinholepoetry.ca/poetry-pinho...

YEG don’t miss the launch of this debut. It’s powerful, funny, and honest

Poets: University of Alberta Press accepts poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30 from poets who are Canadians or landed immigrants. Info: https://bit.ly/4lfXLoI @mlobkowicz.bsky.social‬ @abbookpub.bsky.social @cdnpublishers.bsky.social @writersguildab.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social‬

Events season kicks off with a bang in September. More details on our website.

This weekend at Audreys we will have DOUBLE POINTS for ABC Rewards Members, spot GIVEAWAYS, special PRIZES and to top off the treats the most DELICIOUS GELATO in Edmonton from La Carraia. (caps designed to entrap certain authors, ahem @premeemohamed.com) #booksky #yegindiebookstoreextravaganza #cibd

You are invited to the launch of award-winning poet Lisa Martin's debut novel A Story Can Be Told About Pain. When: May 6, 2025 @7:00pm Where: Porch Light Books (9867 89 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 3Y3) #NeWest #BookLaunch #Edmonton #LisaMartin #AStoryCanBeToldAboutPain #NunatakFirstFiction

Can’t wait to host this event and celebrate these stunning books of poetry

Happy Pub Day to Sarain Frank Soonias and Wendy McGrath & Danny Miles! These two stunning poetry collections are available now - just in time for poetry month! ✨ Get your copies now!✨ buff.ly/elySlTn buff.ly/ZWYAsxD

“Words like essential, best-selling and acclaimed replace loved. Poets start their writing lives already sensing scarcity—one cash prize, one certificate, one sticker on an author’s book—when the real prize, what we all long for deep down, is available in abundance.” the-wood-lot.ca/2025/01/19/s...

Jennifer Bowering Delisle shares her poems ‘Bath Time in the Northern Hemisphere’ and ‘Sorting Shapes’ with us today, along with some thoughts on how to make space for poetry, what her revision process looks like, & where she finds poetic community. Thanks Jennifer! pinholepoetry.ca/2024/11/20/a...