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All Lit Up is closed to orders until January 6, 2025.
Our staff are taking their annual holiday breather, and won’t be fulfilling any print book orders until the new year. Happy holidays!
Staff Picks
What We’re Reading for the Holidays
Our idea of cozying up for the holidays includes a big ol’ pile of books (no surprise). Here’s what we’ll be reading in our downtime this holiday season.
Freshly Published!
Browse what’s new on the ALU shelves this week.
Globe 100 Picks
These books were selected by the editors of the Globe and Mail for 2024;
do they match your year-end faves?
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Indigenous Litspace
Discover fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and kids’ books by Indigenous authors and #ReadIndigenous.
Poetry Litspace
We don’t tell you what the poets are doing, we show you with a dedicated home for poetry recordings, interviews, excerpts, and more.
Kids Litspace
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).
Celebrate the First Nations Communities READ Longlist!
Congratulations to all of the books longlisted for the 2024-2025 First Nations Communities READ Awards:
Congratulations to the Giller Prize longlisted books!
These nominees for the 2024 Giller Prize for fiction are all from independent Canadian literary publishers.
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Poetry Prize Winner!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: “Oldman’s 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.”
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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.
