I cannot recommend this amazing elegiac lyric essay enough. @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a stunning writer (and person) 🧡🧡🧡

Canadian Poets Series #17 : Melanie Dennis Unrau / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2025/12/cana...

📣 Coming March 2026 📣 Nightshade by Lynn Hutchinson Lee is a gorgeous, Gothic coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt. Available for preorder now from our very own website or your fav place to buy books.

DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!

📣 Coming January 2026 📣 Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a lyric bricolage of memoir, image, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes. Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Immortal Woman (Su Chang @houseofanansi.bsky.social): houseofanansi.com/products/the... & The Road Between Us (Bindu Suresh @pressassembly.bsky.social): assemblypress.ca/shop/road-be... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booklovers

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4/4 Fine print: Canadian orders only, free titles are dealer’s choice, the more books you order, the more books you get for free, they reserve the right to dial this back if it gets out of hand. Sale runs Dec 1 - 19. @pressassembly.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish

3/4 Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Canadians only. @pressassembly.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingcommunity #booklovers #booktok #bogo

2/4 Images stolen from their email, obvs. Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only. @utilityofboredom.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booklovers

1/4 Bonus #SmallPress #books post! I just saw this: get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only. @pressassembly.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading

Thanks to excellent @robmclennan.bsky.social for interviewing me. We talked about what it’s like to be alive, my memoir Home Is Where We Start (Penguin), writing my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social) & more... robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susanna Crossman / @susannacrossman.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

Indie publishers @pressassembly.bsky.social & Brick Books merged operations a month ago. Today, they share a little about what led to their decision and how the early days of working as one have taken shape. alllitup.ca/teamwork-mak...

Need to fill the next few days before the World Series starts? How about some baseball books from Canadian writers? 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WorldSeries #CanLit

Nothing like a Monday morning hard launch: Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations. More details on our website!

Phoebe Wang's most recent book is Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community, published by Assembly Press. Kirkus called it “a thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land." @pressassembly.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca Listen to our conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers... assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...

I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

Congratulations to the 2025 #GillerPrize longlist, including four LPG members: @pressassembly.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social & The Porcupine's Quill!

Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏 "Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost." electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...

A story about a mother grieving the loss of her young son, and determined to tell him the story of his life. (@rachelcantor.bsky.social)

🇨🇦📚 Looking for Ontario-based publishers that do it all? From fiction, to non-fiction, to poetry, to drama, we've got you covered!📚🇨🇦 Part 1 of 4! ➡️ Featuring: @pressassembly.bsky.social, @biblioasis.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, Bookland Press, and @coachhousebooks.bsky.social 1/2

Field Work by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social from @pressassembly.bsky.social is a collection of essays from the writer of the excellent, Utility of Boredom, which I also highly recommend. assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...

Recently added to @netgalley.bsky.social: Property by Kate Cayley from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman from @pressassembly.bsky.social! www.netgalley.com/pub/pgcbooks

Holy heck do I love this review. Thanks @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social !! @pressassembly.bsky.social

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kevin Stebner / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/12-o...

Happy publication day to Bindu Suresh and The Road Between Us! Have a listen to Bindu talking to with CBC Montreal about her episodic and poetic second novel: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

"I find the characters slowly define themselves [...]" We had the pleasure of chatting with Bindu Suresh who talks to us about her new novel THE ROAD BETWEEN US, out today with @pressassembly.bsky.social. alllitup.ca/characters-slowly-define-themselves-an-interview-with-bindu-suresh/

Acclaimed author Andrew Forbes explores the many interesting lives that are made around baseball in FIELD WORK: ON BASEBALL AND MAKING A LIVING (@pressassembly.bsky.social). #AmReading #Nonfiction #Baseball #CanLit open-book.ca/News/Acclaim...

I am over the moon to share the very happy news that my new novel, The Orange Notebooks, will be published by the excellent @pressassembly.bsky.social in September 2025. I feel privileged to work with this press & their team, & can't wait for US and Canadian readers to discover The Orange Notebooks.

Who says there's no crying in baseball?

Update!! Watch us gab on Facebook! facebook.com/events/s/sai...

This is a wise, funny, and eye-opening collection of essays, and I'm looking forward to sharing a virtual panel with Phoebe tonight for @everylibrary.bsky.social . Sailing has more in common with baseball than I'd have thought. Lots to talk about! (I'll share the link when I have it.)

Dag T. Straumsvåg, The Mountains of Kong: New & Selected Prose Poems, trans. Robert Hedin and Dag T. Straumsvåg / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/dag-...

Hoo boy was this ever made for me! Andrew Forbes is Canada's Baseball Spokesperson and the interest in labour history in his newest is so rich and complex. He's such a world builder too, you'll notice how well the book-length motifs work with the episodic essay topics. @utilityofboredom.bsky.social

Hub Pruett, LHP, St. Louis Browns, 1922 (Photo by Charles M. Conlon). Pruett's story fascinated me, and pursuing it led me to write Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (April 15, @pressassembly.bsky.social).

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Holly Pester / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/11/12-o...

Visited my dear friends at @pressassembly.bsky.social earlier this week and came away with some souvenirs.

What a dreamy list of bookmakers!

Scandal at the Alphorn Factory New and Selected Short Fiction, 2024-1984 Mixing magical, dream-like sequences and truisms about the human condition in the same paragraph, Barwin’s trademark brilliance, wit, and originality are on display in this can’t-miss collection of short fiction.

Hello good folks of the internet! We have some exciting updates to announce later today! In the meantime, please check out our website if you haven't already. There is new work uploaded regularly. And please subscribe to our newsletter! www.poetrycanada.org/newsletter

📣 Introducing the class of fall 2024 📣 Our first list is broadly representative of the kinds of books we want to bring into the world with Assembly, with a novel, short stories, essays, poetry, a deck of writing prompts, and writing craft book. There's something for everyone!

Heads up: our first round of open submissions closes at 11:59pm ET on December 18! Learn more about Assembly and what we're looking for here: assemblypress.ca/submissions And stay tuned for news on our next submission period in early 2024.

Congrats to the authors and editors and publishers on the Giller Prize shortlist! And don't forget to read all the awesome titles on the longlist that were published by Canadian independent presses!

As part of our efforts to increase transparency in book publishing, Assembly Press is offering "guidance counsellor" sessions. Bring us your questions, challenges, or just conversation—we love connecting and are happy to help however we can! assemblypress.ca/news/guidanc...

Big news on back-to-school day: our logo got a glow up and our submissions are now open! We're accepting public submissions through our website from September 5 to December 18. Submit online at assemblypress.ca/submissions