Taipei-born author Chih-Ying Lay's collection  Home Sickness (published by Linda Leith Publishing and translated by Darryl Sterk) hearkens back to his youth. Says Jade Colbert in the Globe & Mail of the collection: "Psychologically, this is as high stakes as you can get. ... Read more

Tara Gereaux is the author of Saltus, a compassionate new novel from Nightwood Editions. Set in the early nineties in the prairie town of the same name, two waitresses spend their evening shifts serving food to the regulars of Harvest Gold Inn and Restaurant while confiding ... Read more

BEST OF THE BLOG 2021

For Indigenous History Month we're featuring books written by Indigenous authors and the people behind them. Today we celebrate Kegedonce Press, an Indigenous-owned and -operated publisher based on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Nawash First ... Read more

Recently published by Newfoundland-based publisher Breakwater Books and edited by Lisa Moore, Us, Now collects funny, tender, and heart-wrenching stories by racialized Newfoundlanders that confront racism and celebrate resilience. In these pages are stories about families, ... Read more

A near-future dystopian debut novel set in Alberta in 2058, Watershed (Freehand Books) by Calgary storyteller and musician Doreen Vanderstoop considers what happens after the glaciers are gone and water has become our most previous natural resource. 

Transmasculine Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac chats with us for ALU DiscoverVerse about his boisterous, touching, and often funny debut collection you are enough: love poems for the end of the world (Kegedonce Press) — which grew from a challenge to write one haiku a day ... Read more

It is winter 2012. I am walking across campus with fellow students from my poetry workshop to the bus loop, where I’ll catch a 99 back to the apartment with the leaky solarium I share with my partner. It’s a miserable day—cold, grey, with very little colour outside except ... Read more

Our next Manitoba-based author is the delightful Lauren Carter whose second compulsively readable novel This Has Nothing To Do With You (Freehand Books) is about a brother and sister who are struggling to come to terms with the murder of their father and his mistress by ... Read more

When Smokii Sumac undertook a challenge to write a haiku a day, he had little idea of where the practice would take him. Several years and a large online following later, he has collected many of his haiku-style poems into his first published poetry collection, you are enough: ... Read more

For Pride Month we asked Nanaimo Poet Laureate Tina Biello, author of  Playing Into Silence, published by Caitlin Press' new imprint Dagger Editions, what Pride means to her. Below we share her thoughts and a poem from her new collection, which is a "look back at a dry ... Read more