Dorothy Ellen Palmer reviews Therese Estacion's new essay collection Jelly, Baby for @quillandquire.bsky.social, calling it "an important contribution to a new era: books written by & for disabled people, where non-disabled readers are a welcome, but rightfully a secondary, audience.” bit.ly/4mW5Cus

"The Tinder Sonnets works against the cultural invisibility of middle-aged women by insisting on the speaker’s desire, point of view and presences." melanie brannagan frederiksen reviews @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social's latest poetry collection for the Winnipeg Free Press. tinyurl.com/ytjwr2mj

"I love a novel that depicts a character across a longish period time, especially novels that give readers a look at the same character as both a child and an adult." – Liz Johnston, author of The Fall-Down Effect @bookhugpress.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/04... #CanLit

Happy Publication Day to Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability by Therese Estacion, a revelatory collection of lyrical, poetic essays that explores vital themes relating to her life as a disabled person. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/e...

Zoomer Magazine names The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social an April Must-Read Books. zoomer.com/zed-book-clu...

Our sincere gratitude to @nnelsca.bsky.social for producing both a physical and digital braille edition of Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability by Therese Estacion, available now from Lakeland Regional Library, or electronically from the NNELS repository: nnels.ca/items/jelly-...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Emma McKenna / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/12-o...

This week at Take Cover Books in Peterborough, ON! Don't miss a triple book launch for @lizjohnston.bsky.social (The Fall-Down Effect), @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social (The Tinder Sonnets), and @lauriedgraham.bsky.social (Calling It Back to Me). Thursday, April 30, 7pm. takecoverbooks.ca/events

"The book explores female sexual desire, current heterosexual dynamics, exposes the harms of misogyny & male entitlement and critiques these patriarchal systems." @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social goes on a coffee date with @selenamercuri.bsky.social to discuss The Tinder Sonnets. tinyurl.com/yjcrt6cc

One week till I introduce my new book to Nogo/Ptbo, the place where these poems found their footing. Join @lizjohnston.bsky.social & @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social and me as we celebrate our books together, the reading and the writing of them, at the beautiful Take Cover Books in East City.

"Although the novel’s events turn around the turn of the twenty-first century, there is an epic backdrop surrounding contemporary life in British Columbia’s timeless forest.” Michael Greenstein on The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social for The Seaboard Review of Books. tinyurl.com/3vyu6azh

📢 Awards News: Congratulations to renowned writer, filmmaker, and visual artist Shani Mootoo, recipient of the 2026 Blue Metropolis Violet Literary Prize! Learn more: bluemetropolis.org/event/the-vi...

Today, we invite Camilla Gibb to the Book*hug blog to share the story of how revisiting collage work saved her from writers block, and subsequently led to the writing of her debut poetry collection I Used to Be a Pisces. bookhugpress.ca/on-collage-w...

Jennifer LoveGrove’s The Tinder Sonnets confronts moral selectivity and sexual violence. Read Molly Cross-Blanchard's starred review here: https://bit.ly/4uaf9R1

Your purchase this weekend at an indie bookstore goes a long way. By entering into our Contest for Book Lovers, you could be one of four lucky readers to win runner-up prizes of $200 each to the CIBA member bookstore of your choice.

Thank you to Liz Johnston for your lovely shoutout to indie bookstores! Catch her debut novel, The Fall-Down Effect, is also a Booksellers’ List selection for Spring, available April 21. ♥️

On your mark, get set… Bingo! Plan your next book club, host a reading party, or take on the challenge solo: we’re challenging Canadian book lovers to read as many of the Spring Booksellers’ List as they can this season. Save or reboost this post, and let us know how many you plan to read!

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 25, & we can’t wait to celebrate! Bookstores across the country will be celebrating with events, giveaways, and bookish surprises. And don’t forget to check out the #CIBD2026 Contest for Book Lovers, too! More info: indiebookstores.ca/CIBD ✨

"I didn’t set out to consciously write a confessional collection about dating, about misogyny, about my sex life, about my complicated feelings." @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social on why she wrote The Tinder Sonnets for The Miramichi Reader. miramichireader.ca/2026/04/why-...

"Approaches to narrative are more complicated than a plotter-pantser binary, but for brevity’s sake, I’ll call myself a pantser." @selenamercuri.bsky.social goes on a coffee date with @lizjohnston.bsky.social, author of The Fall-Down Effect. coffeedateswithauthors.substack.com/p/a-coffee-d...

Book giveaway alert! Four of our new spring releases are up for giveaway on @49thshelf.bsky.social, including books by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social @lizjohnston.bsky.social, Camilla Gibb, and Emma McKenna. Contest closes May 1. Enter now for your chance to win: 49thshelf.com/Giveaways

Happy Book Birthday to The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social! Exploring protest, climate change & fractured family relationships, this stellar debut work of climate fiction asks what we really owe people in our lives when we're fighting for a greater cause. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f...

my usual sportsbar corner, with the latest issue of Grain, and new titles by Serena Chopra, Therese Estacion, Edie Reaney Chunn, etc // @bookhugpress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Day 9 is Bahar Orang’s thought provoking debut, Where Things Touch: A Meditation On Beauty. This one should be read slowly in one long sitting, letting the words and thoughts wash over you in a wave. Then, read again in bits and pieces, while taking notes in the margin.❤️ @bookhugpress.bsky.social

"She likes you with wet feet, with webbed feet, clart between your toes." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth Jane d’Eau by Tanis MacDonald, forthcoming in Tall, Grass, Girl (2026 @bookhugpress.bsky.social) poets.ca/jane-deau-by...

Read “Fernaldia pandurata and Diabrotica adelpha get symbiotic in Christie Pits” from Tinder Sonnets © 2026 by Jennifer LoveGrove, on our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/... #poetry #onlinedating @bookhugpress.bsky.social @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social

@jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social's THE TINDER SONNETS (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) weaves myth & folklore to celebrate female sexual desire & navigate misogyny & entitlement under patriarchal systems. For #ALUPoetsResist, read more about the book & listen to a reading at: alllitup.ca/poets-resist...

"I started drafting The Fall-Down Effect from the middle. I’m not much of an outliner, generally discovering my story through the drafting process." @lizjohnston.bsky.social chats with @openbookon.bsky.social ahead of the upcoming release of her anticipated debut novel. open-book.ca/News/Open-Bo...

Check out A Selection from My Bookshelf, a recommended reading list by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social, author of The Tinder Sonnets, on @49thshelf.bsky.social. The Tinder Sonnets is also up for giveaway on 49th Shelf! Enter for your chance to win. Contest closes May 1. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/04...

Last night's bacchanalian celebration for @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social brilliant THE TINDER SONNETS @bookhugpress.bsky.social The goods. Delivered.

JENNIFER LOVEGROVE @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social The Tinder Sonnets @bookhugpress.bsky.social bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

Sasha Yurchenko recommends The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social in this great round-up of Canadian poetry collections to add to your TBR this Poetry Month for @booktrib.bsky.social. booktrib.com/2026/04/03/1...

"If Diane Seuss’s sonnet form is a ‘barbed wire dress’, as one critic described it, LoveGrove’s sonnet form is an online dating profile.” Chris Banks on the newly-released collection, The Tinder Sonnets, by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social. the-wood-lot.ca/2026/04/02/w...

Here is a new review I wrote about Jennifer LoveGrove’s accomplished The Tinder Sonnets which is sure to be a popular and noteworthy poetry book in Canada this Spring! tinyurl.com/3pu56w73

An invitation to the virtual launch of Gold Star by Emma McKenna. Tune in from anywhere! Link to register: bit.ly/3N30eI9 Tuesday, April 14, 2026 8:00 pm EST Via Zoom Free to attend!

We're thrilled that The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social is an official selection for the Spring 2026 edition of The Booksellers' List from @indiebookstores.ca! The Fall-Down Effect will be released on April 21 and is available now for pre-order. www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781771...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, indie booksellers! Wow, it's thrilling to have The Fall-Down Effect included on this incredible list. The novel comes out April 21 from @bookhugpress.bsky.social, and you can pre-order it now from you local indie bookseller. Find your nearest at @indiebookstores.ca.

Happy Publication Day to The Tinder Sonnets from acclaimed writer @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social, an electric poetry collection exploring female sexual desire, contemporary dating, misogyny, and middle age that reflects and embodies our social media-saturated times. bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

We're thrilled that The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social is an official selection for the Spring 2026 edition of The Booksellers' List!

Day 3 of National Poetry Month is Kate Cayley’s Lent. Kate came up to Wordstock a couple of years ago, and it was great to hear her read her work. I love this collection and it was hard to choose just three favourite poems… @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Just started The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova about a writer in exile and so far, am enjoying it! #booksky @bookhugpress.bsky.social

KIRBYx4 #LIVE 07APR @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social 11APR #KFB10 @knifeforkbook.bsky.social #ArtsEtobicoke 28MAY @thedonpyle.bsky.social #standardtimeTO @ecwpress.bsky.social Tkts: ra.co/events/2368611 06JULY #LochBaillie @gooselane.bsky.social kirbyfairy.ca/tour-dates-b...

"Orgasm is not the the goal, he said, and I rolled my eyes" - @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social JENNIFER LOVEGROVE The Tinder Sonnets @bookhugpress.bsky.social TORONTO LAUNCH #burdockmusichall TUESDAY APR 7TH Doors 6/Readings 6:30 w/Special Guests Kirby & Andrew Kaufmann #come #celebrate #feast

THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT by Liz Johnston is a Spring 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List, published by @bookhugpress.bsky.social!

"Books are the closest artifacts we have to encapsulating the human experience." Why I Write: Q & A with elseship: an unrequited affair author and designer Tree Abraham. rinabarone.substack.com/p/tree-abrah...

In his new memoir-in-lyrics, @michaelvsmith.bsky.social explores the music that made him. Listen to Michael's interview on CBC Bookends with Mattea Roach. www.cbc.ca/books/michae...

@robmclennan.bsky.social reviews rob mclennan reviews award-winning prose writer Camilla Gibb's poetry debut, I Used to Be a Pisces, writing the poems "are intimate and sharp, taking narrative twists, overlays and turns." robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/cami...

Camilla Gibb, I Used to Be a Pisces / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/cami...

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth! Thank you to @thenewquarterly.bsky.social for including our spring poetry books—I Used to Be a Pisces by Camilla Gibb, The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social, & Gold Star by Emma McKenna—in this list of 30 new & forthcoming collections tnq.ca/tnq-national...

Toronto! I hope you'll join me & my pals for the launch of The Fall-Down Effect (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) on April 21 at Flying Books on College. www.flyingbooks.ca/events/46987...