Louise Penny's new novel is top of our New Release chart https://bit.ly/3WFRR6I

A first novel, a debut memoir, a new poetry collection, and a translation presented in Innu-Aimun and English are among this year’s English-language Governor General’s Literary Awards winners #GGBooks2025 #GGBooks Click here for the full list: https://bit.ly/4qCX10W

Click here for a starred-review of Kim Spencer’s Weird Rules to Follow https://bit.ly/43WrqNY

New on the Q&Q Job Board: • Production Editor @houseofanansi.bsky.social / @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social • Part-Time Special Sales Representative @ Hornblower Group For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

Uncommon good fortune. An astonishing career. Click here for Steven W. Beattie’s review of Margaret Atwood's new memoir: https://bit.ly/3JCoPSo

Carol Off's bestseller "At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage" is back in the Current Affairs Top 10 in a new paperback edition.

Shannon Bramer and Cindy Derby's new YA poetry collection Nightmare Jones is a "dark delight". Click here for the starred review #kidlit #YA https://bit.ly/47Ck6Z6

For Quill & Quire's 90th anniversary, here's a preview of some of the pages from the 1935's inaugural issue, including articles on window displays, and pencil reviews. Click here for more, and a transcript of the Editor’s letter: https://bit.ly/438vdHH

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Sales Representative @Iguttag Distribution Inc. For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler's Little Ghost Quilt has two books in the new Top 10 Canadian Books for Young Readers

Don LePan traces the motivation to start Broadview Press to an experience he had while working at Oxford University Press in the early 1980s. Click here for the full story: https://bit.ly/4hvz4V4

To celebrate International Artist Day, three illustrators share their artistic journey. Click here for a Q&A with Lauren Tamaki https://bit.ly/477UpAD #InternationalArtistDay

To celebrate International Artist Day, three illustrators share their artistic journey. Click here for a Q&A with Miki Sato https://bit.ly/3Wpf7Wq #InternationalArtistDay

To celebrate International Artist Day, three illustrators share their artistic journey. Click here for a Q&A with Nahid Kazemi https://bit.ly/49iqiYs #InternationalArtistDay

To celebrate International Artist Day, three illustrators share their artistic journey. Click here for a Q&A with Lauren Tamaki https://bit.ly/477UpAD #InternationalArtistDay

Andrew Larsen’s latest picture book, Call Me Gray, was co-written with his child and musician Bells Larsen and illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine. Click here for the full review https://quillandquire.com/review/call-me-gray/ #kidlit

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Senior Editor @arvaaqpress.bsky.social For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

Click here for an excerpt from Raymond Biesinger's 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off https://bit.ly/47lSbMF

It's Quill & Quire's 90th anniversary - here's a preview of some of the covers that have graced the magazine over the last near-century. Click here for more: https://bit.ly/47B803s

Spotlighting Canadian Ownership: Inside the Certified Canadian Publisher Program bit.ly/3WJGpa0 The Certified Canadian Publisher seal.... gives book buyers an easy way to spot titles from Canadian-owned houses. @cdnpublishers.bsky.social

New in the Top 10 Canadian Fiction chart is Elamin Abdelmahmoud's collection of essays on Canadian identity, including contributions by Margaret Atwood, Jay Baruchel, Canisia Lubrin, and other prominent Canadian writers and personalities.

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Designer @arvaaqpress.bsky.social For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

The 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards shortlists were announced today. Shortlisted authors for the English language awards include Maria Reva, Lorna Goodison, Shane Neilson, Richard Van Camp, Sid Sharp and Donald Winkler. quillandquire.com/omni/governo...

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Account Manager, Online Retail @mandagroup.bsky.social For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

Toronto writer Victoria Hetherington bravely wades into the muddy morass of "AI girlfriends" in her latest work of nonfiction. https://bit.ly/3L0qdi5

Click on the link for an excerpt from How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists by David Berry https://bit.ly/46V0FeY

“She wanted people to be able to read the book and see whether something rang true to them about the relationships in their own lives” https://bit.ly/4nWbYcT

New novels by Terry Fallis, Mona Awad and Chris Hadfield in the Top 10 Canadian Fiction chart.

Four Canadian titles on this week's New Release Top 10 chart, including Saeed Teebi, Merilyn Simonds, Vanessa F. Penney and Souvankham Thammavongsa https://bit.ly/474eKWg

Click on the link for a two-page excerpt from Jason Guriel's new graphic novel Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn https://bit.ly/3IPRumO

Photographer Richard Johnson worked professionally as an architectural photographer but in his personal creative practice, he was drawn to smaller, imperfect, utilitarian structures. https://bit.ly/48hFPra

House of Anansi Press has announced a restructuring of the company, including the formation of a new board of directors and a change in the management of House of Anansi and Groundwood Books. Full story at the link. https://bit.ly/47fCZ50

"Sem’s Map by Mi’kmaw author Rebecca Thomas, with illustrations by Plains Cree artist Azby Whitecalf, introduces readers to ways of thinking about place names and maps that may be different from what they’re used to," writes Allison Mills. https://bit.ly/488g1Oa #kidlit #review

"The rooster is dreaming of a fox whose “colour was betwixe yelow and reed.” An excerpt from This Is Orange by Rachel Poliquin and Julie Morstad https://bit.ly/46D4fKs #kidlit

Telling Tales Festival this weekend, October 4 and 5, at Royal Botanical Gardens, Hendrie Park, Burlington. ON tellingtales.org/festival-reg...

Stephanie Sinclair and Sara Sinclair's "You Were Made for This World" tops this weeks Top 10 Canadian Books for Young Readers chart, and Sophie Escabasse's latest in her Witches of Brooklyn series is at 9.

Saeed Teebi wanted to combat the powerlessness of witnessing the attacks on Gaza and felt that as a writer there was something else he could do. Shazia Hafiz Ramji reviews Teebi's memoir "You Will Not Kill Our Imagination" https://bit.ly/3Itf6gV

Check out the Alberta Book Publishing Award winners @abbookpub.bsky.social • bit.ly/3VKaG8q

Submission deadline for The Carol Shields Prize: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/submissions @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social

Rick Wilks and Anne Millyard started Annick Press in 1975 in the basement of Millyard’s north Toronto home. https://bit.ly/4gHjPbv

In advance of Orange Shirt Day on Tuesday, Sept. 30, here are top-ranked titles by Canadian Indigenous authors with BISAC subjects Indigenous, Native American, and Turtle Island.

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Assistant Editor @thistledownpress.bsky.social For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

“Neve is an elegant, inviting writer whose narrative is infused with a poetic social passion.” ★review @matthewbehrens.bsky.social of 2025 Massey Lecture Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World by Alex Neve @houseofanansi.bsky.social quillandquire.com/review/unive...

Montreal-born David Szalay is one of 6 shortlistees for the 2025 Booker Prize bit.ly/3Izys3J “A bare-bones plot description does not do justice to Szalay’s literary achievement in the novel, which, as ever, is predicated upon his stylistic legerdemain.” ★ quillandquire.com/review/flesh...

Still by Joanna Cockerline, longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize, is “a moving and insightful debut novel about sex work and street life.” https://bit.ly/3VWrNnm #GillerPrize

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Publicist (Contract) - Simon & Schuster Canada. For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

read an excerpt from Yolanda T. Marshall and Marianne Ferrer's new #kidlit book Brown Girl in the Snow https://bit.ly/3VqKiAb

Elsie Silver beats both a new Slow Horses novel and Elizabeth Gilbert's latest memoir to second spot on the Top 10 New Release chart

Although Souvankham Thammavongsa wrote the first draft of her debut novel, Pick a Colour, in six weeks, the award-winning poet and short story writer says that the prospect of devoting herself to long-form fiction was daunting, and perhaps not for the reason one might expect. https://bit.ly/4n3J0qU

New books by Louise Penny and Thomas King feature in this weeks Top 10 Canadian Fiction