DYK: requesting a Canadian book into your local library can financially benefit the author? 📚 It’s true, thanks to the Public Lending Right program, which is a Canada Council for the Arts initiative run by the PLR Commission. Learn more about PLR: publiclendingright.ca #library #canlit

Fun things coming up at The Miramichi Reader www.instagram.com/themiramichi...

Meet Arash from Arash’s World—an uplifting podcast coming to you from Canada’s west coast! Arash has spotlighted so many amazing Canadian authors on his show. We want to take a moment to shout out this awesome human. 🫶🏼 You can tune into Arash’s World at ArashsWorldPodcast.Podbean.com. #podcast

New excerpt: STAN ON GUARD by K.R. Wilson (@krwbooks.bsky.social)… civilianreader.com/2026/02/16/e... Published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

🌾 Calling It Back to Me 🌾 by Laurie D. Graham, forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart, March 24, 2026 Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... #poetry

“Let imagination Uber you there.” —from Callista Markotich’s review of The Character Actor Convention (Gordon Hill Press) by Guy Elston Read the full review of Guy’s astoundingly good poetry collection on our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/review-... #poetry

If I could see Cora now I’d see the winding sky has shrunk her, but we would watch the damp vectors of mountains. —from “Sun Gone” by Mallory Tater Read the full excerpt on our blog at www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/12.... #poetry @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

I was on CBC Ontario Morning this AM talking about The Unravelling of Ou! Many thanks to Ramraajh Sharvendiran for the conversation. 🫶🏼 Tune in: tr.ee/eZUEB0uQDS #litfic

the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; March 24-30, 2026: check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

Excerpt from Women Among Monuments by Kasia Van Schaik. Published by Dundurn Press, February 17, 2026. Read the full excerpt: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/2/... @dundurnpress.bsky.social #iwd #nonfiction

✨COMING SOON ✨Interposition (poetry) by Kaie Kellough, forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart, March 24, 2026 Request a review copy! www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... #poetry

ICYMI: author and former Globe & Mail journalist Sunny Dhillon was on CTV Ottawa recently to talk about his new book, Hide & Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin (Wolsak & Wynn). Watch the interview: youtu.be/uiZObdP959k?...

Syncopation by Whitney French (published by Wolsak & Wynn) is available wherever books are bought or borrowed! bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/syn... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

Less than a month to go until acclaimed author K.R Wilson’s highly-anticipated new novel, Stan on Guard, is released by Guernica Editions, and we’re stoked to share an exclusive advance review by the excellent Rod Carley! Read the review: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/2/...

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Do you review books? Host a book or book adjacent podcast or radio show? Have a bookish blog? Join us to uplift the amazing literature being published by small, independent presses in Canada! Visit the link below to learn more: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... #canlit #books

A terrific review of Dr. Conor Mc Donnell’s new poetry book, What We Know So Far Is…(Wolsak & Wynn, 2025) is in The Maple Tree Literary Supplement! Thank you to Rion Levy for the excellent review. www.mtls.ca/issue28/rion... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #poetry

I spoke about my new book “Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin” with @hollay.bsky.social for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/n... #canlit #booksky @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

✨ Coming soon! ✨Horses by Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets, forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart, March 24, 2026 Request a review copy. 📕 www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Learn more about Horses: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/778952... #poetry

ICYMI: Poets Guy Elston and Margo LaPierre are on the most recent episode of Sharon Israel’s Planet Poet show. Tune in! www.sharonisraelpoet.com/blog/guy-els... #poetry #canlit @margolapierre.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

BOOK LAUNCH: I'll be at Perfect Books in Ottawa on Feb. 10 to discuss my book, "Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin". The event will be hosted by Jamie Liew. Details here: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/events/hide-... #canlit #booksky @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

Oodles of gratitude to Chris Reed and The Seaboard Review of Books for this lovely review of my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, February 15, 2026). Read the full review: ♥️ open.substack.com/pub/theseabo... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @theseaboardreview.ca

Syncopation by Whitney French is a speculative and intoxicating novel offering readers an intricate future-world that resonates so powerfully with our own, as it explores a people gripped in the war-torn politics of migration, memory-keeping, & survival. bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/syn...

Did I dedicate my novel to a sock puppet? Yep. The Unravelling of Ou will be released by Palimpsest Press in a little over two weeks. If you read the novel—and I hope you do—I think you’ll understand why. ♥️ palimpsestpress.ca/books/the-un... #love

The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien by Brit Griffin, published by Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025. Add The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien to my list of most beloved gothic novels. It’s earned its place. @latitude46pub.bsky.social #gothicliterature

Quill & Quire’s Spring Short Fiction, Poetry, and Graphic Novels Preview was released and we’re delighted to see the forthcoming books by Kaie Kellough, Jaclyn Deforges, and Richard Harrison featured. quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp... Request review copies of these three books in the comments.

Melissa Powless Day, A Bow Forged from Ash / @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/01/meli...

❤️‍🔥COMING SOON! ❤️‍🔥 The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove (Book*hug Press, April 7, 2026) Poems exploring female sexual desire, contemporary dating, misogyny, & middle-age that reflects & embodies our social media-saturated times. Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...

In this NBN episode, I speak with Sean Minogue about his excellent play, Prodigals (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025). In case you’ve never heard me go full fangirl about how much I love reading plays, I think you’ll pick up a smidge of that vibe if you listen in. newbooksnetwork.com/prodigals

“I can’t remember exactly when or how, but one day a sweet and slightly squeaky-voiced sock puppet meandered into my head and didn’t leave. And didn’t shut up.” Thank you to Open Book for this interview with me about my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press). open-book.ca/News/Hollary...

📣Hamilton ON! The awesome @hollay.bsky.social and I will be giving a session on the subtle (and not so subtle) art of book publicity at the Hamilton Sharpwords Super Crawl, Saturday, January 31, 11:00am, Bridgeworks, 200 Caroline St. N #HamOnt Sharpwords.ca

Coming March 21, 2026! 💥 Super Canucks: Supercanucks: An Anthology of Canadian Small-Town Superhereos, edited by Matthew Del Papa and Andy Taylor, (Latitude 46). Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Learn more: store.latitude46publishing.com/products/sup...

Kitchener Waterloo Friends, we hope you can tune into this great interview happening this Sunday on Reader's Delight!

Some of the awesome books on The 49th Shelf’s Spring Fiction Preview! 📚 You can request review copies of all of them through us. www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Not shown here (cover reveal pending!) but still on the list is David Ly’s Not All Dragons! #litfic #books

“This novel is a delicious titration of acts of betrayal and care. I’ve never read anything like it before and yet it felt familiar in hard-to-reach places of the soul.” —Margo LaPierre, author of Ajar More about our books: palimpsestpress.ca/books/the-un... guernicaeditions.com/products/ajar

Coming this spring! 🌸 Weird Babies (short fiction) by Jaclyn Desforges, due out April 1, 2026 with Gordon Hill Press. Request a review copy! www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Weird Babies is about the tenderest part of ourselves that longs, at whatever the cost, to be loved.

Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently on CBC’s Unreserved to talk with host Rosanna Deerchild about Melissa’s new poetry collection, A Bow Forged from Ash (Palimpsest Press, 2025). Listen to the conversation! tr.ee/pukrfVzwU5 #poetry @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Read an excerpt from my new novel, The Unravelling of Ou, published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. Thank you, @civilianreader.com!

Feast your beautiful peepers on these three excellent novels on Quill & Quire’s Spring Preview! To check out the whole spring preview, head to QuillandQuire.com. quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp... @quillandquire.bsky.social

Thank you The Quill & Quire and to Stacey May Fowles for the review of my debut novel! “The Unravelling of Ou is a tender, generous story about the sometimes strange and unsanctioned ways we cope with what we’ve been dealt [.]” —Stacey May Fowles Read more: quillandquire.com/review/the-u...

The first review of the week at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is of Whitney French's Syncopation, from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social: "But the way you read the story, the way you respond to it, will inevitably be different [in verse]," Paul Kincaid argues. He goes on to sketch out how.

A wonderful review of Whitney French's Syncopation

We can’t wait for people to get their hands on Stan on Guard, the thrilling tale by Leacock Award long-listed author, KR Wilson! Interested in reviewing Stan on Guard? Request a copy through the link below. ✨ www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... #speculativefiction

In this NBN episode, I have a lovely conversation with acclaimed Manitoba author David Elias about his new novel, Into the D/Ark (Radiant Press, 2025). Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/into-the-d-ark #litfic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social

How does Dr. Conor Mc Donnell’s experience with opioid misuse and abuse as a physician feed into his work as a poet? Read the interview on our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/12... #poetry @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

Seldom Seen Road (Latitude 46 Publishing) is the first in John Degen’s Burnt River series of murder mysteries featuring the Roth family detective trio—and it’s now available to read on NetGalley! 🌕 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #netgalley @latitude46pub.bsky.social

How do the practices of swimming and poetics intersect? British Columbia poet Mallory Tater answers this question on our blog. 🩷 www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/12... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #poetry

Tune in tonight for my chat with @hollay.bsky.social 🔊