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Locally Produced Reads: Homegrown

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Homegrown: Locally Produced Reads (October 3)

We’re back this week with an all-new batch of fall releases from your favourite independent Canadian literary presses. Today’s books include much-anticipated literary fiction, a Stranger-Things-esque YA novel, magical realism, and short stories.

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Writer’s Block: Nina Dunic

On a bed of cool-toned flowers, in collage style, sits a photograph of a man in a suite dipping a woman in a teal dress, presumably in dance. They are both highly stylized to the late 1960’s early 1950’s. Along the spine of the book, sits the dials of machine, such as a lie detector. The title sits horizontally across the page, with the word “Sum” inside a display screen for the machine along the spine. Full text reads: “The Sum of One Man’s Pleasure. A novel. Danial Neil”

Where in Canada

Where in Canada: The Sum of One Man’s Pleasure

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Homegrown: Locally Produced Reads

A selection of fall books made with care by Canadian indie presses.

The 2023 ReLit Award Winners

Congratulations to this year’s ReLit Award Winners! Check out these three independently-published champs:

Querelle of Roberval

By: Kevin Lambert (CA)
Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize • Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Fiction Homage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, an…

Flyway

By: Sarah Ens (CA)
This Meditation on the impact of human and ecological trauma explores the cost of survival for three generations of women living between empires. Writing from within the disappearing tallgrass prairie, Sarah Ens follows connections between the Russian Mennonite diaspora and the disrupted migratory patterns of grassland…

God Isn’t Here Today

By: Francine Cunningham (CA)
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Meet the Books on the Giller Longlist

Congratulations to all the nominees of the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize! We’re toasting these independently-published gems up for one of Canadian Literature’s highest honours:

Indigenous Litspace

Discover fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and kids’ books by Indigenous authors and #ReadIndigenous.

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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.

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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).

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This Other Eden is a Booker Finalist!

Congratulations to all of the finalists of the 2023 Booker Prize, including this one by All Lit Up publisher Goose Lane Editions: This Other Eden by Paul Harding.

This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding
Shortlisted, Booker Prize Longlisted, National Book Award for Fiction From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated communities. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey …
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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.

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