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Cozy Fest 2.0

Cozy Fest 2.0: Print and Pyjamas

Cozy Fest is back for a second season! All Lit Up’s popular all-virtual, on-demand literary festival brings 19 authors to your screens for a warm, and fuzzy way to close out the year. Read more about our comfiest book fest, below.


Congrats to the 2023 GG Books Drama Finalists!

Governor General’s Award-worthy plays for you to get dramatic, in style.


The 2023 ReLit Award Winners

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

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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.

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).

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.

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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.