We're so excited to kick off All Lit Up's virtual festival, Cozy Fest: eleven days with as many authors, reading the coziest passages from their books. Read on to learn more about what's in store for Cozy Fest, including how to catch the readings and where to visit our festival ... Read more

We teamed up with Matthew Stepanic, writer, and poet, as well as co-founder of Glass Buffalo and Glass Bookshop, for today’s gift guide series. Stepanic tells us that, “My main mission on this good green earth is to help as many folks as possible discover that poetry is ... Read more

With overwhelming emotional power, in The Boy's Marble (Guernica Editions), Nataša Nuhanović’s shows us that we need to keep choosing love, innocence, and hope, if humanity is to be given a chance to win against terror and the absurdity of war.

Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms (Book*hug Press) by River Halen is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Halen explains their editing process that was completed ... Read more

Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings (Kegedonce Press) continues the Ojibwe History series that Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch started with The Trail of Nenaboozhoo in 2019. We interview Issac about the role Serpents has to play in preserving Anishinaabe language and culture, ... Read more

It's officially Mystery Series Week, and this edition of Top 10 is all about saluting the super sleuths among our mystery collection: read on to learn more about 10 gumshoes with gumption.

We're very fortunate to publish this excerpt from Antoine Bear Rock Mountain's  From Bear Rock Mountain: The Life and Times of a Residential School Survivor (Brindle & Glass/Touchwood), this Truth and Reconciliation Day. In the excerpt, he talks about visiting T'seku Dawedah, ... Read more

If you liked getting an insight into Canadian life through stories of some of its famous and not-so-famous citizens in The Promise of Canada, you might like to follow it up with Geoff Mynett's  River of Mists: People on the Upper Skeena 1821-1930 (Caitlin Press).

Giller-nominated writer John Bemrose tells us about the setting of his new novel,  The River Twice (Thistledown Press), Paris, Ontario - which also happens to be his boyhood home. See how Paris lives up to its name as "the prettiest town in Canada", and the uglier side of ... Read more

Writers featured on Off/Kilter have many talents, but we're especially lucky to show off a few at once of the multi-talented illustrator, graphic novelist, and poet Neal Shannacappo. In our interview, Neal walks us through heartbreak, healing, and fantasy elements that inspired ... Read more