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A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals! Est. 2010.
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10 months ago
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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
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about 8 hours ago
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Sarah Marie
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Fun things coming up at The Miramichi Reader
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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
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Civilian Reader
2 days ago
New excerpt: STAN ON GUARD by K.R. Wilson (
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Excerpt: STAN ON GUARD by K. R. Wilson (Guernica Editions)
In March, Guernica Editions are due to publish Stan on Guard by K. R. Wilson: a “tragical-comical-historical novel” and follow-up to Call Me Stan. To mark the upcoming release, we have …
https://civilianreader.com/2026/02/16/excerpt-stan-on-guard-by-k-r-wilson-guernica-editions/
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🌾 Calling It Back to Me 🌾 by Laurie D. Graham, forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart, March 24, 2026 Request a review copy:
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“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:
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5 days ago
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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
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Hollay Ghadery
7 days ago
I was on CBC Ontario Morning this AM talking about The Unravelling of Ou! Many thanks to Ramraajh Sharvendiran for the conversation. 🫶🏼 Tune in:
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rob mclennan
8 days ago
the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! /
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the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online!
March 24-30, 2026: readings and performances in English and French (and Polish!) by Marie-Célie Agnant, Olivia Tapiero, Sanita Fejzic, Melis...
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-schedule-for-sixteenth-annual.html
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rob mclennan
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the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! /
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; March 24-30, 2026: check out the full schedule and ticket information at
verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
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Excerpt from Women Among Monuments by Kasia Van Schaik. Published by Dundurn Press, February 17, 2026. Read the full excerpt:
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9 days ago
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✨COMING SOON ✨Interposition (poetry) by Kaie Kellough, forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart, March 24, 2026 Request a review copy!
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9 days ago
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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:
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11 days ago
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Syncopation by Whitney French (published by Wolsak & Wynn) is available wherever books are bought or borrowed!
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12 days ago
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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:
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LEGEND!
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13 days ago
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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:
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#canlit
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14 days ago
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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
15 days ago
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Sunny Dhillon
15 days ago
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
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#booksky
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Sunny Dhillon,
Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 2026-02-03 · 32m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/new-books-network/id477719156?i=1000747834902
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✨ Coming soon! ✨Horses by Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets, forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart, March 24, 2026 Request a review copy. 📕
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Learn more about Horses:
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/778952...
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15 days ago
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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...
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#canlit
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@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
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Sunny Dhillon
16 days ago
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:
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Hide and Sikh Book Launch at Perfect Books — Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Join Sunny in Ottawa
https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/events/hide-and-sikh-ottawa-perfect-books
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Hollay Ghadery
16 days ago
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: ♥️
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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.
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20 days ago
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Hollay Ghadery
21 days ago
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...
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23 days ago
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.
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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.
22 days ago
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rob mclennan
25 days ago
Melissa Powless Day, A Bow Forged from Ash /
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Melissa Powless Day, A Bow Forged from Ash
bezhig. This deer skin become a moccasin of deer skin, this shoe is the colour of earth (no, earth is the colour of this deer skin sh...
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❤️‍🔥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:
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25 days ago
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Hollay Ghadery
26 days ago
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
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Hollay Ghadery
28 days ago
“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...
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Heather J. “I Should Be Writing” Wood
28 days ago
📣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
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Coming March 21, 2026! đź’Ą Super Canucks: Supercanucks: An Anthology of Canadian Small-Town Superhereos, edited by Matthew Del Papa and Andy Taylor, (Latitude 46). Request a review copy:
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Learn more:
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29 days ago
Kitchener Waterloo Friends, we hope you can tune into this great interview happening this Sunday on Reader's Delight!
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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!
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30 days ago
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Hollay Ghadery
about 1 month ago
“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:
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Coming this spring! 🌸 Weird Babies (short fiction) by Jaclyn Desforges, due out April 1, 2026 with Gordon Hill Press. Request a review copy!
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Weird Babies is about the tenderest part of ourselves that longs, at whatever the cost, to be loved.
about 1 month ago
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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!
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about 1 month ago
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Hollay Ghadery
about 1 month ago
Read an excerpt from my new novel, The Unravelling of Ou, published by
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@civilianreader.com
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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
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quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp...
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about 1 month ago
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Hollay Ghadery
about 1 month ago
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:
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Dan Hartland
about 1 month ago
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.
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Syncopation by Whitney French
Let me suggest a reading of Syncopation, with the proviso that other readers might pick up on different clues or choose a different emphasis.
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/syncopation-by-whitney-french/
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Wolsak & Wynn
about 1 month ago
A wonderful review of Whitney French's Syncopation
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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. ✨
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about 1 month ago
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Hollay Ghadery
about 1 month ago
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
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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
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about 1 month ago
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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
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about 1 month ago
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How do the practices of swimming and poetics intersect? British Columbia poet Mallory Tater answers this question on our blog. đź©·
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/12...
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about 1 month ago
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sean minogue
about 1 month ago
Tune in tonight for my chat with
@hollay.bsky.social
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