A photo of writer Janice MacDonald. She is a light skin toned woman with curly red hair and round glasses, smiling widely.

Author interview

Writer’s Block: Janice MacDonald

In answering our Writer’s Block interview, Janice MacDonald talks about keeping her plots a secret while writing them, repeatedly encountering Catherine di Medici, and which of her characters from new mystery novel Victor & Me in Paris (Turnstone Press) she’d like to spend a day with most.


Reads for Black History Month

Check out six new reads by Black authors from Canadian independent literary publishers.

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Freshly Published!

Browse what’s new on the ALU shelves this week.


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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).

Congratulations to the CBC Canada Reads longlisted books!

We hope to root for these books from independent Canadian literary publishers in 2025’s Battle of the Books.

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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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Congratulations to the books on the
Dublin Literary Award longlist!

As chosen by librarians all over the world, these books from independent Canadian literary presses are literally world famous!


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.