We have an excerpt from Conor Mc Donnell's fabulous new collection up at the Miramichi Reader if you're looking for a bit of poetry to round out your day: miramichireader.ca/2025/11/exce...

Saad Omar Khan is featured on the latest On Creative Writing podcast talking about multiculturalism and writing. It seems like a great show for this week: www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...

It's wonderful to see Whitney French's brilliant novel and Sunny Dhillon's fabulous memoir on the great CBC list: www.cbc.ca/books/14-can...

We have some wonderful Why I Wrote this Book posts up at The Miramichi Reader from Katie Welch and Conor Mc Donnell: miramichireader.ca/2025/11/why-...

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

We've a lovely interview with Mariam Pirbhai up at the Story Circle Network. You can read it at the link: storycirclenetwork.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

We're still receiving great reviews for Saad Omar Khan's Drinking the Ocean. Here's a lovely one from Sarah O'Connor: notsarahconnorwrites.com/2025/10/18/b...

Backlist Mondays: Yardwork, A Biography of Urban Place by Daniel Coleman. Shortlisted for the RBC Taylor prize and winner of the Kerry Schooley Award. In this complex book, Coleman asks questions about land and belonging that are steeped in the history of the six nations that call this land home.

Did you miss our event last night? Readings and a Q and A with @terivlass.bsky.social @heatherbirrell.bsky.social and @sokhan.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social youtu.be/ORpXvX9zG04

Our last post for Hamilton Days, highlighting brilliant essays and writing from Hamilton authors Gary Barwin, Daniel Coleman and Margaret Nowaczyk. You can learn more about all their books here: www.wolsakandwynn.ca

Toronto Friends, come down this afternoon to the Meet the Presses Indie Lit Marketplace at the Cecil Community Centre, 12 to 4 pm - we'll be there with all our most recent books along with many other fabulous presses.

A reminder that Junction Reads is happening at Type Books tomorrow at 6:30 pm. Join Saad Omar Khan along with Heather Birrell and Teri Vlassopoulos for some great readings. But if you can't go in person, you can register below for the livestream:

Highlighting a few more Hamilton writers for Hamilton Days we thought we'd showcase Sally Cooper's sweeping novel With My Back to the World, Rachael Preston's brilliant historical novel Fishers of Paradise and Nicola Winstanley's searing collection Smoke. Visit www.wolsakandwynn.ca to learn more.

It's Hamilton Days this weekend in Hamilton, and lots of local businesses are participating. We're taking this opportunity to highlight some of our books by Hamilton authors. You can learn more about Hamilton Days here: hamiltonday.ca And these books here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...

Ottawa friends, Armand Garnet Ruffo will be in town in a week to talk about his important collection Treaty #. You can register for the event here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/tracking-t...

Sunday November 2 It’s a bookish weekend in Toronto and we hope you’ll come! 6:30pm TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas Street W Doors open all day! Heather Birrell Teri Vlassopoulos Saad Omar Khan @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social

Some lovely early reviews of Sunny Dhillon's Hide and Sikh are starting to come in: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/hide-and-s...

We've a fabulous interview with Katie Welch up at Open Book!

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-...

A wonderful review of Benjamin Berman Ghan's The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is up at the Fiddlehead: thefiddlehead.ca/content/da-l...

Toronto friends, this Sunday is Meet the Presses, the longest running and perhaps most interesting small press book fair in the city, (they even give out the BP Nichol Chap Book Award.) It's at the Cecil Community Centre from 12 to 5 pm and we'd love to see you there!

An excerpt from Katie Welch's brilliant Ladder to Heaven is up at the Miramichi Review: miramichireader.ca/2025/10/exce...

Backlist Mondays: The Midnight Games by David Neil Lee. Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award, part horror and part mystery, The Midnight Games is filled with unusual monsters and complex plots set against the background of the old Ivor Wynn Stadium

Do you like free books? Are you signed up for the 49th Shelf's brilliant newsletters? If not, why not do so and you can win some of our fabulous titles this fall including Katie Welch's Ladder to Heaven! 49thshelf.com/Giveaways

A wonderful review of James Cairn's In Crisis, On Crisis is up at the Miramichi Review: miramichireader.ca/2025/10/in-c...

Katie Welch and James Cairns will be at Another Story tomorrow on Monday! We hope to see you there!

Just a reminder that this your last weekend to be entered to win this fabulous hand-made broom from Taotat Mystic Tea and Brooms. Any online purchase enters you to win and you can find more details here:

Thriller writers Michelle Berry, aka M.S. Berry (THE TENANT, Turnstone Press) and Terry Kirk (PITFALL @atbaypress.bsky.social) chat about life, daily routines, and making a living as a writer for #ALUWomenAskingWomen. alllitup.ca/women-asking-women-michelle-berry-terry-kirk/

London, Ontario friends, we hope you can join James Cairns and Saad T. Farooqi for a fabulous discussion at Little Wren books on October 30th at 7 pm. It's sure to be a great event!

Friends in Sudbury, we are delighted that our publisher Noelle Allen is taking part in a panel on The Road to Publishing at Wordstock tomorrow at 1:45 pm. If you're in town, and interested in publishing, I encourage you to attend. You can find more information here: wordstocksudbury.ca/event/1504

We've a wonderful excerpt of Katie Welch's Ladder to Heaven up at Wild Roof Journal: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/ladder-to-...

Toronto friends, we'd love to see you at Meet the Presses. November 2nd at The Cecil Community Centre on 58 Cecil Street. We'll be there from 12 to 5 along with many other brilliant small press publishers. You'll find books you won't find anywhere else.

Poets! Oncreativewriting.com will launch its first poetry competition next week! Judges will be poets @kimmannix.bsky.social , Professor Rob Winger, and me. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social are the generous sponsors! So grateful for their support. 🙏 Details soon.

Just a quick note for anyone wondering. All our books are written, edited and designed by real people. We use no AI at the press.

Sunday November 2 6:30pm ET In person at TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas Street W. Toronto Livestreamed. @heatherbirrell.bsky.social @terivlass.bsky.social and Saad Omar Khan @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ca/e/1595532593...

New poetry prize alert! The LCP is introducing the Pamela Paige Porter Poetry Prize this year for a collection which celebrates everyday beauty and nature, witnesses the grief of climate change and more. You can read the full description here: poets.ca/offerings/aw...

Congratulations to Margaret Nowaczyk and Nicola Winstanley on being longlisted for the Hamilton Arts Awards!

Just in time for the World Series, Brad Smith's sharp and funny Billy Crawford's Double Play is in the office!

Backlist Mondays: Dear Ghost, by Catherine Owen. Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. In this dreamlike and ethereal collection Owen pulls from facets of everyday life, work, sex, acquaintances and art, and imbues them with extraordinary quirks and uncertainties to dizzying effect.

We're delighted to see Katie Welch's new novel Ladder to Heaven on this lovely round up of BC books for fall: bcliving.ca/entertainmen...

It's spooky season! Here are some "Books to Read When the Veil is Thin" with titles from @latitude46pub.bsky.social @inhabitmedia.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @steerforthpress.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10... #CanLit

Katie Wech and James Cairns will be launching at Perfect Books next Tuesday! We hope to see you there!

Hamilton friends, we hope to see you at the Printed Word in Dundas tomorrow at 6:30 pm to celebrate with Khashayar Mohammadi and Rahat Kurd. Kingston, we hope to see you at the Novel Idea celebrating with James Cairns and Sadiqa de Meijer at 7:00 pm!

Another great list from the 49th Shelf (seriously, they have incredible lists there, you can find any sort of read you want) this time for Octobery books: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...

We've put together a lovely mix of fall reads from our backlist here at the press. Whether it's poetry, nonfiction or a novel, there's something here sure to catch your eye: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/blog/2025/10...

Another thoughtful and interesting review of Katie Welch's Ladder to Heaven. This time from the great site, The BC Review: thebcreview.ca/2025/10/14/2...

It's always so exciting when new books come into the office!

A wonderful and thoughtful review for Katie Welch's Ladder to Heaven is up at Earth.org. earth.org/book-reviews...

We're delighted to see two of our W&W titles on this great book list from Ken Wilson for the 49th Shelf: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...

Backlist Monday's: Revery by Jenna Butler. Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction and the High Plains Book Award for Woman Writer, longlisted for Canada reads, Revery is a an incredible memoir. learn more about it here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/rev...