In honour of the launch of Kids Lit Space, in this Queer Coded segment we thought we would share some heartfelt young queer reads. Over there years there has been more development in creating queer Young Adults and Children literary spaces. It’s great way for kids to connect ... Read more

Today's Poetry Muse feature is a triple-header of poets from Renaissance Press'  AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets. We're joined by Andrea Thompson, reading "After the Storm;" Evelyn C. White, reading "One Rock;" and the anthology's editor and poet himself, ... Read more

In June, Indigenous-led publisher Kegedonce Press celebrated the 15th anniversary of Daniel Heath Justice's The Way of Thorn and Thunder trilogy, an Indigenous fantasy series likened to the scale of Le Guin and Tolkien that follows an epic conflict between humans and ... Read more

ALU Summer Book Club is on! We virtually chatted with Peter McCambridge, translator and fiction editor at QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books, about bringing to Eric Dupont's novel Life in the Court of Matane to English readers. Read on for a preview from the book and our ... Read more

Our annual Gift Guide Week is here, featuring hand-picked selections by authors we admire for all the readers on your holiday gift list.

Our first gift guide recommender is poet and culture writer Natasha Ramoutar who shares five choice titles for everyone from "the one getting ... Read more

For Mother's Day this year we've rounded up three books that appreciate moms of all kinds⁠—read on for excerpts from an uproariously funny novel, a moving memoir, and a powerful poetry collection. 

Kicking off our second week of ALU DiscoverVerse is prose poet A.B. Dillon whose collection Matronalia (Thistledown Press) looks at the underbelly of mothering and what often remains unsaid from mother to daughter. A.B. joins us to chat about her collection, writing inspiration, ... Read more

Canada 150 has been a chance to reflect on our country's great achievements, sure, but with it comes a sobering look at its history of settlers mistreating the Indigenous peoples who were here first. In comes Indigenizing: a process of (re)introducing Indigenous customs, languages, ... Read more

In 3 Summers (Coach House), poet Lisa Robertson traces the body in its various forms, exploring borders and boundaries and time, all the while asking what is a body?  In Lisa's words "...the whole female body of time mostly passes beneath representation." Read on for a poem ... Read more

In my book series, The Dead Kid Detective Agency, our valiant narrator October Schwartz experiences not only great personal humiliation (after all, her nickname is “Zombie Tramp”), but any number of other more real dangers, like bayonet-wielding history teachers, phone-booth ... Read more