Your cart is currently empty!
Homegrown is back!
Our final crop of Homegrown picks include a gothic mystery, two poetry collections, a debut novel, and a collection of funny and heartbreaking “epitaphs.” Our featured authors hail from Hamilton, ON; Conception Bay, NL; Cranbrook, BC, and more. Read on to find out more about their books and what they love about their hometowns.
An Interview with Chase Joynt
What’s on our TBR this fall? Browse our team’s faves this season.
Discover fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and kids’ books by Indigenous authors and #ReadIndigenous.
We don’t tell you what the poets are doing, we show you with a dedicated home for poetry recordings, interviews, excerpts, and more.
The ALU Kids Litspace is a home for the finest in kids lit, for young, middle-grade, and teen readers (and all of those who are young-at-heart).
Congratulations to all of the books longlisted for the 2024-2025 First Nations Communities READ Awards:
These nominees for the 2024 Giller Prize for fiction are all from independent Canadian literary publishers.
Congrats to poet Sid Marty for his collection Oldman’s River winning the first-ever Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize!
Of the collection, Eurithe Purdy said: “Oldmanโs River: New and Collected Poems is a major work bringing together the best of Sid’s poetry over more than fifty years, as well as impressive new writing. It is a very worthy recipient of the first Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize.”
In 2022 All Lit Up launched the ebooks for everyone collection: 600+ books that were converted to fully-accessible epub formats for readers with print disabilities. Browse some handpicks from our collection below.