Thanks Jerry Levy of Ottawa Review of Books “Rarely do novels run the entire gamut of full human emotion and experience but Danila Botha has infused the plot of her excellent work…a page turner, one that continually intrigues and comes highly recommended” www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...

In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...

✨We're still celebrating these beauties! Happy Pub Day! 🎂 @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @nicolavulpe.bsky.social #CanLit #fiction #Nonfiction #essays #poetry

a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-bu...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Amy LeBlanc's poem "Letter to a Young Arachnid" from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/letter...

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-...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Christy Ann Conlin's "Displacement of Bodies in Time", from Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/displa...

Feed: "rob mclennan's blog" By: [email protected] (rob mclennan) on Saturday, August 16, 2025

New podcast episode! Writer and academic James Cairns on his new essay collection In Crisis, On Crisis. Let us know what you think after listening. https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/33207000/james-cairns-fascination-with-the-age-of-crises-grew-from-personal-crises-of-addiction

Worthwhile thread on AI, what it’s really for and who it really serves—especially pertinent after the Eden Mills debacle

new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn, / @ucpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Rachel Top's "The Baker's Filia", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-ba...

Join us for Poetry Night — our second open mic & social of the year, happening in beautiful downtown Port, Perry, Ontario. Where: META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery, Port Perry, Ontario When: August 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. @twpofscugog.bsky.social

Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/ceda...

penultimate day of middle daughter swimming lessons [which she claims she does not need, she can already swim well enough to save herself and an underweight child, she says; the fact that her younger sister is not an underweight child is not something she is concerned about];

Click here to read "The Not-To-Do-List" by Mimi Mahmud, an exclusive story from the 2025 X-Page Performance Workshop: tnq.ca/the-not-to-d...

Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her debut as author of the week and much more! southsidebroadcasting.podbean.com/e/lynda-will...

A very special blurb from the inimitable @jessicastellaa.bsky.social! This one made me cry. THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN, out September 9 in Canada, September 30 in the US!

Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her latest novel 'The Beauty and the Hell of It' with Inside the Minds of Authors! www.youtube.com/live/_l5_vA0...

It’s publication day! The ED Recovery Journal got to number 1 in the charts when it was released and it would be a dream come true for that to happen again. You can order here on Amazon, but it’s also available online from the publisher and all major bookstores. amzn.eu/d/9CQ194G

The countdown to THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is on! I'll be sharing more nice things in the weeks to come, but for now here is a very lovely blurb from the brilliant Alex Gonzalez. You can preorder now! Publishing on September 9 in Canada and September 30 in the US. MORE FROM ME SOON.

TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @hollay.bsky.social talks to @alicefitzp.bsky.social “A Dark Death” (Stonehouse Publishing) & Chris Hutchinson “Lost Signal” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!

Such a pleasure to speak with @danilabotha.bsky.social about craft and my upcoming collection of stories, The Beauty and the Hell of It, ( @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ). Interview with Lynda Williams www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/interview-...

above/ground press author spotlight #7 : Lydia Unsworth / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

We've launched our Support Ontario Book Publishers Campaign! Follow the link below to tell the Ontario government to invest in Canadian education and stories by supporting our schools, authors, and publishers: win.newmode.net/supportontar...

www.podbean.com/ew/pb-w47kj-... Had the best time chatting with Alex and Merryn about my upcoming collection of stories, the Beauty and the Hell of It.

Carol shares a poem "Out of Shape," from her poetry collection, A BOUQUET OF GLASS (Guernica Editions, March 1, 2025). LEARN MORE: (@anotherstoryto.bsky.social) shorturl.at/triIj www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy2U...

Ongoing notes: early August, 2025: Peter Van Toorn + david hadbawnik, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/ongo...

Central Alberta bursts into action with the surprise arrival of an unknown teenage son into the stagnant life of an absentee deadbeat dad. albertaviews.ca/cattail-lane/ @frankimmel.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social #Booksky #albertabook #albertaauthor

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Devon Rae's "Conversation with Her Bodies", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/conver...

Attn. #poettrylovers! Carol Krause reads "Rest," from her collection A BOUQUET OF GLASS. Carol wrote the poem "Rest" months after being accepted for disability income support. Her poem explores madness, mystical mishaps and unexpected mending. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3iB...

Click here to read "Galloping Horses" by Fiorella Benini, an exclusive story from the 2025 X-Page Performance Workshop: tnq.ca/galloping-ho...

And a BIG 🙏from us too, Lisa De Nikolits! Yay @danilabotha.bsky.social and A Place For People Like Us! 🤸‍♂️

Check out these Toronto literary events happening in August! #bookevent #booklaunch #toronto #torontoevents #authorcommunity #authorgram #writers

It appears this new story is currently free. Up to you whether it works fine.

What We Know So Far Is…—the stunning new poetry release by Hospital for Sick Children physician Conor Mc Donnell—is forthcoming October 7, 2025 with Wolsak & Wynn—and we have review copies available! Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachari Logan / @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/12-o...

BIG 🙏 @lpgcanada.bsky.social! We are SO grateful for all you do to support Happy 50th! #lpg50 #CanLit. ❤️🍁📚

Since 2013, Maggie Helwig, a priest at Toronto's St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, has seen the hard realities of being unhoused from her churchyard. Here she explores the truths you might learn if only you spoke to people less privileged than yourself. thewalrus.ca/churchyard-encam...

Six years ago, when @staceymayfowles.bsky.social and I published Whatever Gets You Through: 12 Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault, we had hoped for better. If you need it, the book is at libraries and retailers and, if you need me, I am holding you in my grief. greystonebooks.com/products/wha...

The countdown is on @danilabotha.bsky.social! 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️ We're excited too.🤸‍♂️

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Morgan Dennis's "A Lament for the End of the World", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/a-lame...

You can still listen to this interview and SO many more FAB BOOK interviews here: ciut.fm/howl/

We are ready! Check out @krwbooks.bsky.social book teaser for STAND ON GUARD.

✨ Saturday, July 26✨ you are invited to a free online event, with Drew McEwan, Léa Taranto, Madelaine Caritas Longman, and NeWest's own @sjonespoet.bsky.social discussing writing on OCD. #NeWest Press #CanLit #CanadianLiterature #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian #OCD Link: buff.ly/ORdn1E9

New book review!! Check out "The World So Wide" by Zilla Jones! Review by Susan Sandford Blades. www.prairiefire.ca/the-world-so...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Linda Clarke's "Wings", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/wings/

⏰ Celebrate the ✨ in person✨ launch of The Beauty of Vultures the collaborative project by poet Wendy McGrath and photographer Danny Miles When: TOMORROW! (July 22, 2025) @ 7pm Where: Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton) Cost: Free Snacks: Of course #NeWestPress #Canadian #PoetryLaunch

my latest poetry title, the book of sentences, a follow-up to the book of smaller (2022), both from University of Calgary Press; copies have just landed at my door; launch information (October, as the release date for the book) to follow, (once I have it, // @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Our summer issue is now LIVE! Step into the extraordinary lives of others—where each story, poem, and essay is an intimate invitation driven by curiosity, admiration, love, or even bereavement: tnq.ca/issue/issue-... #canlit #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #reading