Junction Reads SEASON FINALE with donuts! TYPE Books Junction. 2887 Dundas St. W. @farzanadoctor.bsky.social hosts this special event w/ Chanel Sutherland, @hollay.bsky.social & Alison Gadsby! Register for the livestream, or PWYC at the door. #canlit www.eventbrite.ca/e/1596371904...

Launch Week for THE PEACE THIEVES! This was the day we were issued our rifles during Basic Training. No, we weren't told to name them. Yes, I named mine. No, I'm not sharing her name. 🤣 www.peacethieves.ca #canlit #novel #booklaunch @thistledownpress.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

We've a wonderful interview with Kyle Flemmer up at the Miramichi Reader: miramichireader.ca/2026/05/cele...

Great to visit with Owl's Nest Books in Calgary! Drop by to browse their great selection and pick up a signed copy of Shoebox.

#NationalShortStoryMonth spotlight 4: “The Deal With Roger” by Alison Gadsby, from Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions, 2026). Read the story: www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/nationa... #shortstory @junctionreads.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

“There is a lot of climate grief in The Fall-Down Effect... And yet, at the same time, each of the characters also tend to and preserve their hope for and connection to the natural world.” -Liz Johnston Read the full interview: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/... #ecolit #canlit

Friends, just a reminder that our Toronto Spring Launch is coming up fast! We hope you can come out and celebrate with us at the Tranzac: www.eventbrite.ca/e/wolsak-and...

“At its heart, this novel looks at the beautifully complicated, creative, and powerful ways people learn to survive and thrive when love and belonging feel out of reach.” —Justine Abigail Yu, 49th Shelf Read the full column: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/04... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #litfic

This month’s 3% article is dropping soon! Current subscribers: please remember you can contact me anytime and ask questions! #publicity #canlit #books #publishing #writerslife substack.com/@hollayghade...

On Thursday May 28 at 7pm, join us for Unforgettable Characters: Three Canadian Authors in Conversation, with Zilla Jones (The World So Wide), Alison Gadsby (Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive) & @hollay.bsky.social (The Unraveling of Ou). Hosted by Lindsay Wong. - mailchi.mp/grant/unforg...

Acclaimed Windsor-area author André Narbonne was recently featured in The Windsor Star. In the column, he talks about his new #historicalfiction, Those Are Pearls (Palimpsest Press, June 15, 2026). Shout to journalist Pascal Hogue for the excellent reporting! Read the article: tr.ee/EyuMz6Tocp

Thank you to the Sheelagh Caygill for interviewing me about my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026) in the most recent issue of Literary Mama—and thanks to Literary Mama for continuing to celebrate writers who mother! Read the profile: literarymama.com/articles/dep... #litfic

Thank you to Nolan Kehler and Classical 107 FM for the wonderful feature of Christine and her new novel, The Instrument Must Not Matter! Read the full article: tr.ee/ZTd1Oe6YbY @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #piano #classicalmusic #ireadcanadian #pianomusic #books

Big love to Heather Campbell, the intrepid publisher of Northern Ontario’s Latitude 46 Publishing! Heather has been named one of Sudbury’s most influential artists by Sudbury Arts Council. Read the full column: tr.ee/7O7hnxleLH @latitude46pub.bsky.social #books #canadianliterature

There's NewPoetry today from Hollay Ghadery. newpoetry.ca/2026/05/18/t...

Thanks to @bookninja.bsky.social for inviting me to submit a poem to NewPoetry.ca. The poem featured, “The Other White Whale” was written by my youngest daughter and me. We printed out lyrics from Raffi’s Baby Beluga, scrambled them, and used 20 words or so to create this poem. 🌊 #begula #poem

Loved @hollay.bsky.social's seriously playful, playfully serious novel about a woman and her sock puppet. Published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. Check it out if you like whimsical queer stories that will break your heart just a little!

Thank you so much, Tessa!

40 Asian Canadian writers to have on your radar #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/40-asi...

What does it mean to lose a mother tongue—and to write your way back to it? Beloved Edmonton poet, artist, educator, translator, and researcher Adriana Oniță shares her thoughts on this question in a recent interview on our blog. www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/4/... #poetry

Join us on Thursday May 28 2026 7:00 pm in Winnipeg at McNally Robinson! More details below & RSVP here: facebook.com/events/s/unf... Join acclaimed author Lindsay Wong, with Zilla Jones, Alison Gadsby, and Hollay Ghadery for an evocative conversation. Hosted by Lindsay Wong. 🫶🏼 #winnipeg

“A magical journey full of heart, wonder, and imagination.” @balooberry_reads on IG spotlights Not All Dragons by David Ly! Learn more: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/not... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #fantasybooks

Thanks for @deborahkalb.bsky.social for the feature on Ben Berman Ghan’s new short fiction collection, The Library Cosmic! 💫: @inkstainedwreck.ca @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #shortstories

Thank you Ron Andrea and the Historical Novel Society for the review of "Blood Bound: Unlacing Secret Ties," by Marie-Josée Poisson trans. by Flora-Lee Bendit. Thank you, @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/bloo...

River Street’s intern Michael Schmidt has curated a list of 8️⃣ awesome 2026 books covers from independent Canadian publishers! Read full article: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/5/... #bookishcanadians #ireadcanadian #bookcover

"In genre we can make subtext into text, and we can make text weird." We chat with @inkstainedwreck.ca about speculative fiction & his forthcoming book THE LIBRARY COSMIC (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), a collection of stories that considers the mysteries of life. alllitup.ca/dont-explain...

Who else loves short stories? ❤️ We are stoked to see four of the short story collections we’ve been celebrating featured in this BookTrib column by Michael Schmidt! booktrib.com/2026/05/06/4... @booktrib.bsky.social

Reviews are starting to come in for Christine Fischer Guy's The Instrument Must Not Matter - here's a lovely one from Laura Rock Gaughn in The Seaboard Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-instru...

Q: Gitwaaɫtk is a story about the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia. What compelled you to write this story? Read the interview: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/4/... #mmiwg2s #reddressday #indigenousstories #highwayoftears #indigenousvoices

May is #NationalShortStoryMonth and I’ll be sharing a few short stories from contemporary writers on my blog. I’m kicking off my wee series with “Caviar”—one of the stories in my flash fiction collection, Widow Fantasies (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/caviar-...

ICYMI: The Unravelling of Ou by award-winning Iranian-Canadian author Hollay Ghadery was featured in Ms. Magazine! Thank you Karla Strand and Violet Pandya for including Canadian published literature in their column. 🫶🏼: @msmagazine.com Want to request a review copy of this book? Comment below.

I’ll be hosting poets @afmoritz.bsky.social, Kate Rogers, John Wall Barger and Kathryn MacDonald today Sunday, May 3, 5pm at Ben McNally Books. #CanLit, #poetry, #Toronto

My friend Rosanna has a new book about growing up in Sudbury as the daughter of Italian immigrants in the 1960s. Definitely a must read if you are a Sudburian & love the city’s fascinating history. Love this little book. Congrats, Rosanna! ❤️📚@robattigelli.bsky.social @latitude 46pub.bsky.social

Flying Books, CMU Press and River Street are delighted to host the Toronto launch of Nightberries by Elina Penner in conversation with Sherri Klassen. More info & RSVP here: flyingbooks.ca/events/51672... #germanlit #canlit @cmupress-ca.bsky.social

Today is #NationalFirstRespondersDay, and we’re spotlighting Nova Scotia author and retired paramedic and fire service captain Sean Paul Bedell, who was featured in Canadian Firefighter. Read this fascinating interview: www.cdnfirefighter.com/not-every-ca... @seanpaulbedell.bsky.social

"What if a memory is a burden? What if a memory is ascribing you to an identity that you actually don't want to confront?" Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse, talks w Amanda Fields & Tiffanie Drayton on This Mama Is Lit! @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

My new book of poems is officially available for ordering. Highly recommend ordering through @palimpsestpress.bsky.social (link below) or ordering through your local independent bookstore, but it's available at indigo or amazon if needed. #booksky #poetry #canlit palimpsestpress.ca/books/half-e...

ICYMI: CBC producer Daphné Santos-Vieira spotlighted Jaime Forsythe’s beautiful long poem, Yield on The Next Chapter with the excellent Antonio Michael Downing. Yield is an unforgettable long poem that lingers in the postpartum void. Full episode: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #nationalpoetrymonth

💫 Coming soon! 💫 The Library Cosmic: Stories by Benjamin Berman Ghan, forthcoming with Wolsak & Wynn, May 26, 2026 DM us to request a review copy—just in time for National Short Story Month in May! @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #shortstories

@anncavlovic.bsky.social 's novel Count On Me is important, and receiving excellent reviews! Few writers explore family fractures that occur when parents are frail. Fewer take on the devastating subject of elder abuse. Podcast coming soon. #elderabuse #books #reading www.anncavlovic.com

“I don’t know if it’s that I like the idea of writing every genre as much as it feels like a natural choice. Like how sometimes you feel like walking somewhere and sometimes you need to run.” —Me! boydwords.wordpress.com @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #litfic

Congratulations to award-winning author Brad Smith, whose wise-cracking and fast-paced novel, Billy Crawford’s Double Play (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025), is longlisted for the 2026 Leacock Medal for Humour! 🏅 Read the full story: tr.ee/t-jEFURPNE Congratulations to all the longlisted authors!

***NEW EPISODE!*** Amanda Fields & Tiffanie Drayton talk w Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse! @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

DM us to request a review copy!

We're excited to release a podcast episode with this phenomenal writer soon!

ICYMI: Whitney French was recently interviewed by Shawn Conner in The Vancouver Sun about her phenomenal novel-in-verse, Syncopation (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026). 💜 Read the full article: vancouversun.com/entertainmen... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @vancouversun.bsky.social #books

I was on @globalnews.ca discussing my book, identity and the value of Sikh Heritage Month: globalnews.ca/video/117980... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social #booksky #canlit

Read “Fernaldia pandurata and Diabrotica adelpha get symbiotic in Christie Pits” from Tinder Sonnets © 2026 by Jennifer LoveGrove, on our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/... #poetry #onlinedating @bookhugpress.bsky.social @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social

Kaie Kellough, Interposition / @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/kaie...