Just a little bit more time to shop!

We’re due to take our annual holiday nap starting at 1:00pm ET on December 20, 2024 – get your orders in before then!

Cozy Fest: The return of the all-virtual, on-demand literary festival (that you can attend in your jammies), only on All Lit Up

Our virtual lit fest is back!

Cozy Fest 2024: Eighteen more authors get cozy

The world’s comfiest book festival is back for another year! Eighteen authors join us in their snuggliest apparel to read selections from their books for this 2024 edition of Cozy Fest: binge the readings all at once, or check back in each day for a feature on each of these fantastic writers. Read on to see what’s in store 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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Oldman’s River is the inaugural Al and Eurithe Purdy
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: “Oldmanโ€™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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ebooks for everyone

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.