July's pick is NIGHTSHADE by Lynn Hutchinson Lee (@pressassembly.bsky.social), a Gothic, Romany coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt—with a dash of magic realism.

Summer reading, but make it campfire-lit. #ALUBookClub is back with the Summer of Strange, where we're reading & talking about two hauntingly good books from @pressassembly.bsky.social and @renegadeartsent.bsky.social. Follow along with us here: alllitup.ca/summer-book-...

DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY in the wild! This time at the South Street Seaport location of McNally Jackson in NYC (and they have copies across the city!) ... Photos courtesy @slipsslips.bsky.social; thanks! @pressassembly.bsky.social

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Véronique Darwin / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/12-o...

Today's Turning Pages episode features a conversation with Veronique Darwin about Mom Camp ( @pressassembly.bsky.social ) Stream/DL at the link: umfm.com/programming/...

"Highly Acclaimed Poet Derek Beaulieu Passionately Explores His Craft, and Implores Other Scribes to DO IT WRONG": @openbookon.bsky.social interviews me about DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET INTHE 21ST CENTURY: open-book.ca/News/Highly-... @pressassembly.bsky.social

Sister Corita Kent's "10 Rules for Students and Teachers (for John Cage)" was a massive inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink how you teach and how you learn: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... @pressassembly.bsky.social

Congratulations to our chair Dr Erin Wunker on her new book! @dallibraries.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

📣 Fall 2026 📣 We’ve got a perfect pair of books lined up for fall: essays by Erin Wunker and poetry by Dani Spinosa! Read all about ‘em over on our website - you can preorder there now, or do so via your favourite independent bookstore.

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Poetry: The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, illustrated by April White! @annajswan.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

Canadian Poets Series #30 : Derek Beaulieu / @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/06/cana...

Joseph Planta & i discuss DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY, "One of the more fun, but also informative, instructive, even inspirational books of the season" thecommentary.ca/ontheline/24... DO IT WRONG, from @pressassembly.bsky.social, here: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation by @eileenflanagan.bsky.social, @sevenstories.bsky.social & Nightshade by @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Melanie Dennis Unrau : How does a poem begin? / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/mela...

Phoebe Wang, Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/phoe...

DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY seen in the wild at calgary's pages books on kensington ... order your copy from your local bookstore or direct from @pressassembly.bsky.social (Thanks for the photo @kristenbeaulieu.bsky.social )

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) 🧡🧡🧡