Backlist Monday's, Aether, an Out-Of-Body-Lyric by Catherine Graham. Winner of the Fred Kerner Book Award and shortlisted for both the Trillium and Toronto book awards this is a beautiful lyric poem. Learn more about it here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/aet...

"If an alien anthropologist summarized the entirety of human cultural expressions, they might produce Baby Cerberus" - Whitney Adnane. Check out This Magazine for the full review! You can learn more about Natasha Ramoutar's Baby Cerberus here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/bab...

BC friends, this great event is just one week away. You can learn more about it here: www.facebook.com/events/62614...

Vancouver friends, you don't want to miss Natalie Lim at Word Vancouver tomorrow! She'll be reading at the Poetry Bus at 2:00 pm and in Poetry of All Places at 4:00 pm. You can find the whole schedule here: www.wordvancouver.ca/festival-pro...

Vancouver friends, remember that this great event is coming up this weekend!

Mariam Pirbhai, author of Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging, reviews James Cairns’ In Crisis, on Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). Read the full review: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi's The Book of Interruptions is an elegant, passionate and expansive work that we feel many of our readers will be entranced by. You can read a sample here: cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/23... And learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...

Another lovely review for Saad Omar Khan's Drinking the Ocean: dreamerswriting.com/drinking-the...

In this New Books Network episode, I speak with the wonderful Saad Omar Khan about his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social, 2025). Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/drinking-the... #lovestory @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Toronto friends, just a reminder that this great event is one week away!

Join our senior editor, Paul Vermeersch in Picton this weekend for some fabulous poetry!

TOMORROW NIGHT CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social talks to Peta-Gaye Nash about her book of short stories “Told Ya!” (Tamarind Tree Books). Also on the show @hollay.bsky.social talks to James Cairns“In Crisis On Crisis” @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!

We're starting a new series we're calling Backlist Mondays here at the press. Every Monday we'll be profiling a fabulous backlist title to remind everyone of all the great books that we've brought out over the years and that you might not have seen the first time around.

Was delighted to have a chance to review Kyle Flemmer's hilarious space-themed experimental poetry book, Supergiants, over at Strange Horizons. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... @kyleflemmer.com @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #booksky

This week on GET LIT, Jessica Popseki talks poetry and Noelle Allen talks Supercrawl! 1230 pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here; tinyurl.com/47wu5abv It's E460. 40 shows left! (Now if only I had 40 weeks left until *real* retirement) @supercrawl @noelleallen.bsky.social

Here's the full Author tent schedule for Supercrawl - along with the schedule for our friends on the Theatre stage! We'll be at the tent on Friday night, along with many great Hamilton writers, and there will be great readings, interviews and discussions all weekend. If you're in Hamilton, stop by!

Going to Dreadcon this Saturday? Join W&W author David Neil Lee at 1:15 pm for a reading in the terrifying Red Quill Room. You can learn more here: www.dreadconcan.com

We're thrilled to have a new novel coming from Katie Welch! Her last book with us, Mad Honey, was a fabulous mystery. This time we're on an epic journey with the tough and troubled Del Samara. We're delighted to share an excerpt here: cdn.shopify.com/.../Ladder_t....

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD our latest show on CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @Hollay2 talks to @nataliemlim “Elegy For Opportunity @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Also on the show @MeliaMcClure talks about her book “All The World’s A Wonder” @radiantpress.bsky.social LISTEN/DOWNLOAD HERE: ciut.fm/howl/

The Toronto Word on the Street schedule is up and we're thrilled to have both James Cairns and Daniel Coleman appearing on the City of Toronto Fireside Stage. Of course, we'll be at booth B9 all weekend. Come by and say hi! toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/event-direct...

An interesting read: lithub.com/everything-y...

Hamilton friends, the Supercrawl schedule is live and we hope to see you at the Author Tent. We'll have Gary Barwin and David Neil Lee on at 7 pm on Friday night, and Saad Omar Khan at 1:00 pm on Sunday and John Terpstra on at 3:00 pm on Sunday. You can see more here: supercrawl.ca/schedule/

TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @hollay.bsky.social talks to Natalie Lim about her debut poetry collection “Elegy For Opportunity” @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Also on the show Melia Mclure talks about her book “All The World’s A Wonder” @radiantpress.bsky.social TOMORROW NIGHT!

Friday sees Dawn Macdonald’s debut review for us at @strangehorizons, and it’s a piece on spec poetry from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social to boot. “Supergiants, is an exploration, a long-running joke, a shock wave generated by rapid mental expansion.”

We've a wonderful interview up from Conor Mc Donnell at on Creative Writing: www.oncreativewriting.com/post/conor-m...

James Cairns' wonderful new essay collection is featured in this great podcast from Linda Morra: shows.acast.com/getting-lit-...

Next month's read is Natalie Lim's DEBUT poetry book, Elegy for Opportunity, published with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social! ✨ This tender poetry collection finds beauty in the reality we're living through. 🌍📚 Also, read her work "The Moon News" in Augur Issue 4.1! ➡️ augursociety.org/chief-editor...

We're delighted to see Natalie Lim's wonderful collection Elegy for Opportunity included in Read Local BC's Poetry in Transit project: www.readlocalbc.ca/resources/po...

We're delighted to have published Ewan Whyte's thoughtful and heart-breaking collection of essays. These essays cover a dark piece of Canadian and American history and are important reading for today. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/mot...

We've a lovely review of Drinking the Ocean up at the Miramichi Review Patreon. If you can I recommend supporting the site: "A brief review can only skim the surface of this assured debut novel. Drinking the Ocean is as complex and surprising as life itself." www.patreon.com/c/themiramic...

We're delighted to see Ben Berman Ghan's wonderful novel on the science fiction list of finalists!

Semifinalists for SCI-FI (cont) THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS by @inkstainedwreck.ca at @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social WORLDS ALIGNED: WORLDS APART 2 by Terry Jackman at @elsewhen.press

All Lit Up Canada asked me to be a part of their Hot Days, Cool Spots: Where (and What) Authors Read this Summer feature. ☀️ Here you’ll spy me, in the goat paddock with the girls, reading Alexis von Konigslow’s literary thriller, The Exclusion Zone, (Wolsak & Wynn). alllitup.ca/hot-days-coo...

Still time to catch up on our August summer reading list! Get reading these titles from @touchwooded.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @mawenzihouse.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #CanLit

Toronto friends, W&W author Chris Pannell will be at the Free Times Cafe this Sunday with Michael Mirolla and David Clink to celebrate the launch of Michael's new collection The Second Law of Quantum Complexity 7:30 on Sunday, August 31st, at The Free Times Cafe, 320 College St.

An interesting lunch read: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...

It's wonderful to see Sunny Dhillon's smart and funny memoir, Hide and Sikh, on this great list of Canadian books to watch for this fall from CBC: www.cbc.ca/books/45-can...

A fabulous piece from Kit Dobson about the attack on school libraries in Alberta: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

We have a lovely interview with Peter Darbyshire up at On Creative Writing: www.oncreativewriting.com/post/peter-d...

Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding our Future Through the Wampum Covenant is being hailed as an essential read for Canadians looking to understand our nation’s complicated history. What do the founding wampum agreements have to offer us today? www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/6/...

🕊️ On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood by Richard Harrison (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) A Governor General’s Literary Award-winning collection uncovering loss and renewal in the wake of tragedy. alllitup.ca/books/on-not... #lpg50 #canlit

We're delighted to see Whitney French's brilliant novel Syncopation on the CBC Fall Fiction list! www.cbc.ca/books/fictio...

The 49th Shelf is the place to go to find out about what's happening in Canadian-owned publishing! We're delight to see three of our fall fiction titles on their round up of the most anticipated fall titles this year! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/07...

A lovely review of Natalie Lim's debut collection from rob mclennan.

Friends who are participating in the lawsuit against Anthropic, please remember the deadline to register your titles is September 1st. There's more information on why to do so in this Publishers Weekly piece: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

It's World Photography Day, and we're lucky to have a fabulous collection of poetry dedicated to the ground-breaking woman photographer Matty Gunterman, in Catherine Owen's Seeing Lessons. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/see...

Every now and then you sign a book without quite realizing the depth of what is coming. This is one of those books. I am awed by the perseverance that went into the writing of it, and I am delighted it's arrived. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/mot...

New excerpt: LADDER TO HEAVEN by @skatiewelch.bsky.social... civilianreader.com/2025/08/19/e... Due to be published by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social, on October 14th. @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

With the official publication date of my new book just 2 weeks away, I am grateful to @themockler.bsky.social for interviewing me for her I'VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU series. I talk about memory, ghosts, and The Goonies, among other things. Read on! sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/if-a-polte...