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This Week in Lit Events: July 3-9th
It’s a quieter week for lit events (everyone’s sleeping off their long weekend) but Torontonians, rev up for two great ones on Tuesday.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
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In Review: The Week of June 26th
This week we learned more about Hamilton, Ontario, relived the days of school’s out for summer with a graphic novel, and fell into a Google-hole searching Millennial Pink.We hope you all have a happy long weekend!
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School’s Out, Almost Summer
It’s the first day of summer for a lot of Canadian kids today, so we’re turning to comics panels from Sophie Bedard’s Almost Summer (Pow Pow Press) for advice. With a total of four volumes – #2 drops this August – these true-to-life yet still adorable graphic novels about high school romances, friendships, and everything in between are great for…
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Where in Canada: Yardwork
In 1997 when Daniel Coleman moved to the escarpment city of Hamilton, Ontario – one of the most polluted Canadian cities at the time – he began to ask himself questions: how can he as an outsider put down roots in a new place? How can anyone really belong without awareness of their region’s history?…
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Read This, Then That: Memoir Edition
Our Read This, Then That picks focus on two remarkable women and their struggle living with multiple sclerosis: Jen Powley, author of Just Jen (Roseway Publishing) and Heidi Redl, author of A Quiet Roar(Caitlin Press) describe in their memoirs what it’s like to live everyday with an incurable, debilitating disease.
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Cover Collage: In the (Millennial) Pink
We’re taking a cue from these late-night summer sunsets and going pink in today’s edition of Cover Collage.
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This Week in Lit Events: June 26-July 2nd
To celebrate Canada Day this upcoming Saturday, why not hit up a book launch in your area? We have lots of areas on offer, this week: Edmonton, Courtenay, Toronto, Whitehorse, and more!Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date,…
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In Review: The Week of June 19
This week we extended National Aboriginal Day because one day just isn’t enough, and added some new words to our Pride Month glossary.
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Top 10: New Words in Our Pride Glossary
It’s Pride weekend this weekend in Toronto: and naturally, we’re preparing by reading some fantastic LGBTQ+ books. We’ve come across some great words and phrases on the way: here are ten for you to include in your own Pride lexicon.
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Five Stories Broken by The Native Voice
The Wales-born Maisie Hurley launched the Indigenous-focused newspaper The Native Voice in December 1946, implored by Haida Elder Alfred Adams. He saw how she had supported Indigenous people living in BC in the legal sphere, and thought she could lend that tenacity in a media space, too. With the backing of the Native Brotherhood of…
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Writer’s Block: Cliff Cardinal
For National Aboriginal Day, we interviewed Indigenous playwright and actor Cliff Cardinal whose collection of two solo plays, Huff & Stitch was just published by Playwrights Canada Press. His plays offer up a powerful snapshot into the lives of marginalized Indigenous characters: a single-mom who makes her living as a porn star in Stitch; and…
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Jules’ Tools for Social Change: Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont
Welcome to this month’s edition of Jules’ Tools for Social Change, a column that features a book, author or publisher whose work deals with issues of race, gender, sexuality, ability, colonialism, economic justice, or other social justice topics.
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This Week in Lit Events: June 19-25th
This week, books and magazines hang out at both the Taddle Creek Summer issue launch (Toronto) and the Room Magazine readings (Vancouver). Plus, a lot more (in a lot more places)Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time,…
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In Review: The Week of June 12
Our Summer Book Club launched this week! Beginning in July with Death and the Intern, we’ll have weekly check-ins with readers-along (so be sure to get your on-sale copy!). Dads, don’t think we forgot about you: we rounded up some poetry books that poignantly speak to the father-child relationship.
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Kinds of Dads: A Poetic Retrospective for Father’s Day
You may know us best as poetry-lovin’ folks here on All Lit Up, so we’re viewing this year’s Father’s Day through poetry-coloured glasses: we’ve rounded up three books from poets/children who each remember and honour their fathers in their collections, as well as a snippet of poetry from each that you can share with your…
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