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Indie Reading Room: Raye Anderson
Next up in our Indie Reading Room is Raye Anderson, author of And We Shall Have Snow (Signature Editions), a murder mystery about a local music star who is found murdered during the coldest part of winter in Manitoba’s Interlake area. Scroll down for our Q&A with Raye, and head over to the ALU Instagram for…
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Indie Reading Room: Michelle Sylliboy
Kicking off our Indie Reading Room this fall is L’nuk (Mi’kmaq) artist and author Michelle Sylliboy who in her debut collection of poetry Kiskajeyi: I AM READY (Rebel Mountain Press) preserves the complex L’nuk language, Komqwejwi’kasikl through word art and paired photographs. Read on for our Q&A with Michelle, and check out the ALU Instagram to hear Michelle read from…
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Poetry in Motion: Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Brand new to our bookshelves isThe Hammer of the Witches (Caitlin Press), Kelly Rose Pflug-Back’s first full-length collection of poetry. With a dark and stormy mix of emotion and image, the collection contemplates belief, power and fear with a streak of magic that will have you questioning the boundaries of what is real. Read on…
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All Lit Up Turns Six: 6 + 6 Books
At ALU we love bookish roundups and birthdays so we’re putting them together and celebrating with a roundup of 6 + 6 books that made an impact on us over the last year. And we’re taking 20% off any of our birthday selections for one week (until Sept 22) so you can enjoy them too. What’s…
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All Lit Up Turns SIX
We can’t count our age on one hand anymore: All Lit Up turns six today! To commemorate our birthday, we’re counting to six with a look back on six of our favourite moments on the blog AND six + six books we loved this year (+ discounts & a contest!). Get yourself a cupcake and read…
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In Review: The Week of September 7th
This week on All Lit Up: staff book picks for fall reading, debut poetry, Leonard Cohen, thrilling historical fiction, and more.
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First Fiction Friday: The Haweaters
Vanessa’s Farnworth’s debut The Haweaters (Signature Editions) is a historical novel that checks all of the right boxes for a page-turning read: rivalry, gossip, and a scandalous revenge plot. Centred on a violent, real-life double-murder on Manitoulin Island in 1877, The Haweaters is one part The Sisters Brothers and two parts The “Black” Donnellys.
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Quoted: Reaching Mithymna
In 2015, Steven Heighton travelled to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece to enlist as a volunteer. Reaching Mithymna (Biblioasis) is his firsthand account of his experience working at an ad hoc transit camp and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind. Below, Steven shares the significance of a…
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Two Poems from The Burden of Gravity
In her debut collection of poetry, The Burden of Gravity (Caitlin Press), Shannon McConnell takes an in-depth look at New Westminster’s Woodlands School, a former “lunatic asylum” opened in 1878 which later became a custodial training school for children with disabilities before its closure in 1996. McConnell recalls a dark time in BC’s history to give poetic voice…
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Fall Preview 2020: Staff Picks
Cue the pumpkin spice lattes: fall books are lining the shelves. Check out which books All Lit Up staffers are excited for this season.
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In Review: The Week of August 31st
On the blog this week: 72-hour write-a-thons, the art of incorporating maps into great book design, the definition of ZOM-FAM and a refreshing take on historical fiction.
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Read Harder Challenge 13 & 14
Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light has been participating in BookRiot’s Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along with a list of books from All Lit Up to have you reading harder, too! This…
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Poetry in Motion: Kama La Mackerel
In Mauritian Kreol, Zom-Fam means “man-woman” or “transgender.” Metonymy Press joins us in this edition of Poetry in Motion to share more about this debut book of poetry by the same name from multi-disciplinary artist Kama La Mackerel – a collection that mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for the author’s home island, Mauritius. Read on and check out the…
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Beautiful Books: If Sylvie Had Nine Lives
From the time I began sketching out the idea for If Sylvie Had Nine Lives (Freehand Books), I knew what an important role the book’s design would play in helping me tell Sylvie’s story or, more precisely, her several stories. I had granted my character nine separate lives that were, to borrow a phrase from Stephen…
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Where in Canada: Orphans of Empire
Before Vancouver there was Gastown, and before Gastown there was New Brighton, only 5 kilometres east. Set in New Brighton from 1858 to 1885, Orphans of Empire (Touchwood Editions) is a deftly crafted trio of narratives that converge at the site of the New Brighton Hotel on the shores of Burrard Inlet. Featuring some of BC’s most…