“Nobody wins forever.” Today, we are featuring words from Armand Garnet Ruffo’s staggeringly powerful poetry collection, The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow, was published in spring 2024 by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social. #remembranceday

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ben Zalkind / @radiantpress.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently interviewed by Windspeaker’s Books Feature Writer, Shari Narine, about A Bow Forged from Ash—Melissa’s new poetry published by Palimpsest Press. Read the full piece: windspeaker.com/news/windspe... @windspeaker.bsky.social

“My roots in northern Ontario aren’t that deep, but they don’t exist anywhere else.” —Sean Minogue, author of Prodigals (Latitude 46, 2025). Read the interview: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/... @latitude46pub.bsky.social @seanminogue.bsky.social

LONG EXPOSURE (New Orleans, Room, 2005-2006) He didn’t move the dress. Polidori moved himself to make the dress the centre of regret. Long Exposure is the new poetry by Governor General Award winner Stephanie Bolster. Read the full excerpt: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/... #poetry

Ecology Paul comes to life thanks to the irrepressibly talented New Mexico artist, Catie Powe! 🧦 Head to my blog to take a peek behind the creation of the cover art for my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social, February 15, 2026). www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/the-cre... #canlit

Take a poetry pause with us. ✨ The excerpt here is from NMLCT — the newest collection by acclaimed poet Paul Vermeersch, published by @ecwpress.bsky.social Also, Paul has an event tonight from 6-8 am at Sheridan College HMC campus! Read the poem: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/...

Sunny Dhillon was recently interviewed by John Ackermann for the CityNews Bookshelf about his powerful new book, Hide & Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social, November 11, 2025). Read the feature: vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/02/b... @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social

It’s #NonfictionNovember, bookish friends! We’re spotlighting Gina Leola Woolsey’s masterful biography, Fifteen Thousand Pieces: A Medical Examiner’s journey through disaster (Guernica Editions, 2023). Learn more: guernicaeditions.com/products/fif... @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

“The novel is a stitching together of memories of unspeakable events. Black takes us on an exciting journey through rural Ontario in the late 1800s.” —WAHEED RABBANI, Historical Novel Society Read the review of Lucy E.M. Black’s, A Quilting of Scars: historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/a-qu...

A Halloween poem from Poet Laureate of Scugog Township, @hollay.bsky.social 🎃 This excerpt is from, “I too live with vows”, which appears in Hollay’s chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, published by Anstruther Press. www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products... #halloween

You can now order a copy of my chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, directly from Anstruther Press: www.anstrutherpress.com#/the-blades-... This is a wee collection of occasional verse. Thank you to Jim Johnstone for this picture, & everyone at Anstruther Press. #poetry #chapbook

Our poetry contest is accepting original poems in the English language by poets living anywhere in the world. Thanks to sponsors @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social and judges @kimmannix.bsky.social and Rob Winger. Full details: www.oncreativewriting.com/on-creative-...

Product of Italy 🇮🇹, Made in Canada 🇨🇦... An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience. ❤️@latitude46pub.bsky.social Celebrating my #Italian-Canadian heritage. #creativenonfiction #immigrant @randallperry.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @canadianauthors.bsky.social

the blades of grass are dreaming (Anstruther Press, 2025) is my debut chapbook is almost out! If you’d like a signed copy, drop me a DM or contact me HollayGhadery.ca. Thanks to Anstruther Press, The Canada Council of the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Government of Ontario.

Jason Allen’s 52 Things to Do in Hamilton: The Insider’s Guide to Fun in the Hammer is a wide-ranging mix of activities sure to keep visitors, newcomers to the city & long-time residents exploring all through the year. Request a review copy! www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...

Toronto Star—"Horror fiction round-up: 4 novels spotlight vampires, serial killers, cultists and more" #BookSky #Horror www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Durham region people and poets! Join me for our third Meta 4 Open Mic Poetry Night & Workshop When: Wednesday, October 29 7pm Hosted by me—Scugog Poet Laureate! www.hollayghadery.com Where: META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery 200 Queen Street, Port Perry 905-985-1534 meta4gallery.ca

A wry take on machine authorship and a delightfully offbeat exploration of gender, family, and creativity, with a stylistic wink at Stanistaw Lem.” - KR Wilson, author of Call Me Stan DM us to request a review copy of How About This…? by Michael Mirolla now! atbaypress.com/books/detail...

Poetry contest alert!

Into the D/Ark by David Elias, forthcoming with Radiant Press, October 21 2025–and you can see him on CTV Winnipeg! Watch here: youtu.be/lp6i6PwXauQ?... @radiantpress.bsky.social

#Extract A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social Described as 'a contemplative novel about identity, secrets, life choices, aging and mortality.' Read: www.swirlandthread.com/a-quilting-o... #booksky

One of our favourite poetry reads of the year? ✨ Notes from the Ward, gorgeous new poetry from Steffi Tad-y, explores bipolar disorder and psychotic break through lived experience and a poet’s eye. Learn more: ghp-pql.com/products/not... DM us if you’re interested in a review copy of this book.

A wonderful interview with @anncavlovic.bsky.social about her debut novel about elder abuse and dysfunctional family dynamics. @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ✨

My book babes. ♥️ ✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award. 🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023. 🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards. #canlit

A Quilting of Scars is out today from @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social and I’m chatting with author Lucy E. M. Black all about it lindasbookbag.com/2025/10/15/s...

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Tune in for long weekend listening w/ CBC All Points West host Jonathan D’Souza and Victoria, BC poet Lorne Daniel. 🍁 You can also read Lorne’s exclusive, ADDICTION, FAMILY, AND THE STORY BEHIND LORNE DANIEL’S WHAT IS BROKEN BINDS US, on our blog. tr.ee/_Zq1if15-5 CBC INTERVIEW: tr.ee/BF0BAgUBBb

“But my intention was not just to remark on the absurdity of our tech-saturated world. I also wanted to create my own.“ —Ben Zalkind, author of Honeydew. Read the full interview. 🌟 www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/... #speculativefiction #canadianliterature @radiantpress.bsky.social

The cool kids are reading poetry. 😎 The 3 titles here—Ajar by Margo LaPierre, The Book of Interruptions by Khashayar Mohammadi and What We Know So Far Is… by Conor Mc Donnell—were all on CBC Books fall poetry list! Want to review a copy? Drop us a line: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...

In this NBN episode, I speak with Guelph, Ontario author Karen Smythe about her remarkable new novel, A Town With No Noise (Palimpsest Press, 2025). Listen to the conversation: newbooksnetwork.com/a-town-with-... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #books

So great to see The Midnight Project as part of this spooky roundup!

Burlington Public Library has announced its festival line up! Check it out! www.bpl.on.ca/BurlLitFest

a mid-week ringette practice for small one (skipping guides tonight because of it), so an opportunity to sit with Margo LaPierre’s Ajar, // @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social

Do you live for books that bring on the chills and thrills? 👻 📖 Check out our list spooky season reads by Canadian authors. Read the full list here: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/... #spookyseason

It's wonderful to see Conor Mc Donnell on CP 24 this morning, talking about his new poetry collection! www.cp24.com/video/2025/1...

Read our new interview with Melanie Schnell about her novel, The Chorus Beneath Our Feet, forthcoming with Radiant Press, October 14, 2025. www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/... @radiantpress.bsky.social ✨ #canlit

Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.

The fourth day of our fifteenth issue includes new poetry by Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social , Isabella Mori @moritherapy.bsky.social and Andrew Shields, and The art of writing #119: an interview with Terri Witek talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com

Anyone else remember Tour of the Universe at the CN Tower? ✨ I have a poem out in the new issue of talking about strawberries all of the time inspired by this attraction. 🍓 talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/holl... And hey, I also have a chapbook coming out with Anstruther Press!

Where they went I cannot name— those liquefying emissaries or my aunt’s wishes, whatever it was that she held tight that morning— —from Votive by Annick MacAskill, Gaspereau Press, 2024 Read the full excerpt: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/... @gaspereaupress.bsky.social

Count on Me is a tender and absorbingly compelling novel that exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface. You can read our full interview with author Ann Cavlovic here: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/... #eldercare

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Bruce Hunter / @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/12-o...

Day one of Toronto Word on the Street was a blast! Join us at tomorrow (Sunday, September 28th) for another day of bookish fun! We’re celebrating Canadian books and authors at booth E27! 📚

We’re at Word on the Street Toronto this weekend! That’s September 27th at 28th at David Pecaut Square, friends. 📚 Drop by our booth to say hi, enter giveaways, and talk books! And it’s us, so we’ll probably have treats too. 😌 Hope to see you there!

Toronto friends you won't want to miss this important event. Join us to celebrate the launch of Ewan Whyte's important essay collection, Mothers of Invention. October 7th, at the Toronto Arts and Letters Club, 7 pm. Ewan will be interviewed by documentary filmmaker Barri Cohen.

We're delighted to have this great early response for David Worsley of Words Worth Books in Waterloo. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/bil...

A review of In the Bear’s House—the award-winning novel of disability and wildness by Bruce Hunter—by Ainsley Louie-Suntjens is in F(r)iction! frictionlit.org/a-review-of-... #disabilityinclusion

A review of In the Bear’s House—the award-winning novel of disability and wildness by Bruce Hunter—by Ainsley Louie-Suntjens is in F(r)iction! frictionlit.org/a-review-of-... #disabilityinclusion

Check out this review of The Mad Dog and the Sea Dragon by Lisa De Nikolits, published by Inanna Publications. And thank you to TrainGeek.ca for the CanLit love! www.traingeek.ca/wp/mad-dog-a...