The Orange Notebooks, is a compelling study of grief’s many colors..The channels Crossman traverses—nonhuman, mythic, philosophical, linguistic, & multi-colored—show grief as a plurality, as that which exists between. @necessaryfiction.com necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-... .

See you next week, Calgary!

THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman (@pressassembly.bsky.social). Reviewed by Court Ludwick. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

First time seeing DO IT WRONG in the wild -- at kelowna's mosaic books (Thanks folks!) I bet your local bookstore could order a copy from @pressassembly.bsky.social ... but if you see it on shelves, please send me a photo!

📣 Happy pub day to the effervescent ride that is Mom Camp! 📣 Now available for your reading pleasure from your local bookstore or library branch. “Deeply strange, well observed, and often laugh-out-loud funny.”—Gabrielle Drolet, author of Look Ma, No Hands

For #ShortStoryMonth, short story writer @laurairock.bsky.social recommends six standout collections from @anvilpress.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social, @greatplainspress.bsky.social, @invisibooks.bsky.social & @llpmtl.bsky.social alllitup.ca/afterword-6-...

"At the bottom of Portsea's Cheviot Bay in Victoria is a sunken gravestone for Harold Holt, the missing, presumed drowned former Prime Minister of Australia." -- from Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, Dani Netherclift. @pressassembly.bsky.social #amreading

We’re giving away a copy of MOM CAMP by Veronique Darwin and a MOM CAMP hat! To enter, sign up for our mailing list before Sunday May 3 at 11:59 at assemblypress.ca/subscribe The winner will be notified by email on on Monday May 4, so make sure the email address you use is legit, please!

"Beaulieu published this book at the exact time I needed someone to give me permission" -- thank you Jerry Iwanus at The Prairie Maritimer for your review of DO IT WRONG: theprairiemaritimer.com/poetry/ @pressassembly.bsky.social

The brilliant @jonathangibbs.bsky.social ( whose thoughts and writing I much admire) reviewing my novel #theorangenotebooks (published by @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and @pressassembly.bsky.social ) and comparing me/it to early Deborah Levy. All thanks for your words.

flying to Victoria (via Toronto) and really enjoying what I’ve read so far of Phoebe Wang’s Relative to Wind // @pressassembly.bsky.social

A rare Vancouver reading from Phoebe Wang! Phoebe will be joining Joanne Leow in launching their @pressassembly.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social books at Iron Dog Books. April 30th, 6:30 PM, details here: irondogbooks.com/events/48383...

One year ago today we published Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social ⚾️⚾️⚾️ If you haven’t read it yet, now’s the perfect time to scoop up a copy from your local bookstore or library - it pairs well with a snack and a live game 📖 🥨🏟️

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (by @biidaasamose.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org) & Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta

Short Talks : the Anne Carson Lectures, , revisiting a classic text, to seek something old, something new; / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/short-talk...

📣Do It Wrong is here! 📣 Happy pub day to @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social and Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century, a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry! Available now from your fav local bookstore or library

Read @lethejerome.bsky.social's review of Melanie Dennis Unrau's Goose (pub. @pressassembly.bsky.social) in Issue 34! ...Goose is a medium through which we can look at what discourse makes disappear... www.thetemzreview.com/melanccedilo...

Happy Opening Day* to all who celebrate! ⚾️🏟️🎉 Good planning is always having a copy of Field Work by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social within reach in case of a rain delay. Grab a copy from your favourite bookseller!

TORONTO!: Come by FLYING BOOKS (784 College) on APRIL 10th at 6:30pm for the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY! flyingbooks.ca/events/48336... (check out @pressassembly.bsky.social & the book: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)

Steven Beattie reviews Field Work!

Unboxed! DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY, order your copy from @pressassembly.bsky.social

📣 Nightshade is here! 📣 Happy pub day to the amazing @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social and Nightshade—we love this novel, and we hope you will too! Get a copy from your favourite bookstore or library branch today! 📚

Grateful for this careful read of Field Work by JM of @theampersandreview.bsky.social "Forbes weaves fact, analysis, and association into an elegant discourse" theampersandreview.ca/book-reviews... @pressassembly.bsky.social

some great buzz about DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY (available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)

Misha Solomon, My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet / @mishasolomon.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/mish...

I am very lucky to have already read an early draft of Meaghan's new book - it's all killer, no filler. @nashls.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social

📣 Coming May 2026 📣 Mom Camp by Véronique Darwin Available for preorder through bookstores and libraries and direct from our site: assemblypress.ca/shop/mom-camp

“The lagoon in February is a plate of bubbled glass, with twigs, sandwich wrappers, and plastic bags trapped in the ice” Happy Groundhog Day! Relative to Wind is on sale today only to try to manifest both an early spring and early start to boating season! assemblypress.ca/shop/relativ...

Lovely to see @quillandquire.bsky.social include DO IT WRONG in their spring 2026 previews: quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp... @pressassembly.bsky.social

📣 Coming April 2026 📣 Do It Wrong by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social is a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas, and approaches to writing and teaching poetry. Preorder your copy now from us, your fav book shop, or request it from your library! 📚 assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

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!

Acclaimed poet Dani Netherclift tries to capture the shape of absent bodies in VESSEL (@pressassembly.bsky.social), a new and form-bending work of memoir. We interview the author right here on Open Book! #AmReading #Memoir #Nonfiction #Translation open-book.ca/News/Dani-Ne...

Happy North American pub day to @dani-netherclift.bsky.social and the long and gorgeous essay that is Vessel! “Lyrical and allusive, Vessel is a memoir about a personal tragedy and a moving meditation on what remains of the dead.”—starred review, Foreword Reviews assemblypress.ca/shop/vessel

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