Fans of Letterkenny and A Child’s Christmas in Wales, will enjoy Jim McEwen's new novel Fearnoch (Breakwater Books). Fearnoch is a plea for its characters to remember humility, honesty, and to see themselves in their neighbour, before it’s all gone.  

Our next Poetry Muse featured poet is Andrew Faulkner and his collection  Heady Bloom (Coach House Books). He tells us how the book's muse is the big-size bottle of Advil Liqui-gels, inspired by a persistent headache, shares the "nostalgic millennial" music found amongst ... Read more

In Sarah De Leeuw's recently released poetry collection  Lot (Caitlin Press), she returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. In our Q&A discussion, Sarah shares when she was writing this collection ... Read more

In this week's edition of Women Crush Wednesday, discover these talented fiction authors published by Inanna Publications, ARP, Turnstone Press, Cormorant Books, Thistledown Press, Roseway Publishing, Book*Hug Press, and Breakwater Books. 

In this week's edition of Women Crush Wednesday, discover our amazing playwrights published by Playwrights Canada Press, J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, and Breakwater Books. 

Léa (Linda Leith Publishing) by Ariela Freedman is a novel that brings Léa Roback  to life  — an activist who spent nearly a century fighting for women’s rights, labour rights, and social justice. In this week's edition of Under the Cover, Freedman shares how ... Read more

Reminders on the Path (Mawenzi House) is Sheniz Janmohamed's third poetry collection. In this week's edition of Where in Canada, Sheniz shares how she questioned her relationship with nature during the pandemic, and how she hopes her new collection will encourage readers ... Read more

A small and scrappy, indie publisher with a reputation for producing beautiful and downright-rad contemporary books, Invisible Publishing has been taking chances on debut authors and diverse projects since 2007. They are all about building communities that encourage current ... Read more

For National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo, we rounded up 22 tips and tricks from established writers, including a two-time winner of the 3-Day Novel Contest, to encourage and unlock your creativity. 

It wasn't until adulthood that author Theresa Shea learned that as a child she had attend the March on Washington with her mother and been present for Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech "I Have a Dream." Out of this moment comes Shea's novel The Shade Tree (Guernica Editions), ... Read more