Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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First Fiction Fridays: Shenzheners
The work of award-winning Chinese writer Xue Yiwei is now available to a global audience for the first time. The Peddler. The Physics Teacher. The Dramatist. As we read each of these nine loosely connected short stories, we are introduced to a cast of characters that have moved to Shenzhen, China’s newest metropolis. A small…
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All Lit Up Turns Two!
All Lit Up is turning two today!! To celebrate the start of our ‘terrible twos’ we demanded breakfast in bed… since that didn’t happen we’re going to move on and celebrate in a way that we know will bring little flutters to our book-loving hearts. We’re sharing our book love with all of you! Team…
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Top 10: It’s My Party
Tomorrow we celebrate our two years of internet life, and it has us wondering: how do other CanLit-ers get down? These ten books featuring party scenes and/or other literary bacchanals are sure to give us tips on what (or what NOT) to do for our second Birthday.
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Writer’s Block: Matthew Heiti
Screenwriter, playwright, novelist. Matthew Heiti is a writer of many disciplines. On the occasion of the publication of his new young adult play, Black Dog: 4 vs the wrld by Playwrights Canada Press, we asked him to share some of his creative process.
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This Week in Lit Events: September 12-18th
Did someone say festival season? Eden Mills, and Word on the Streets Halifax and Saskatoon are all this week, plus great readings and signings.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…
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In Review: The Week of September 5th
While all the back-to-school photos that flooded Facebook this week made it feel like fall, the 40+ degree weather at ALU HQ did not. We hope your first week back after our last summer long weekend didn’t feel quite as long as it did to us but if it did, we’ve rounded up some fun…
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First Fiction Fridays: New Albion
Dwayne Brenna’s experience as an actor, writer, and professor of drama drives the passion behind his first novel, New Albion. The work is loosely based on incidents that occurred in and around London in the winter of 1850-51. The book follows the lives of the actors of the New Albion Theatre in London’s East End,…
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Do-Lit-Yourself: Frame-worthy Sonnet Samplers
Need a last-minute gift for a lit-loving friend? You can whip this wordy craft together with markers and paper (and if you don’t have those two things, this column probably isn’t for you, anyway).
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In House: The Archaeologists and the Return of the Serial
ARP Books first told us about Hal Niedzviecki’s new novel The Archaeologists way back in March of last year. In addition to being a novelist and non-fiction writer, Hal is also the founder and fiction editor at Broken Pencil magazine. Needless to say he knows books, magazines, and marketing. At the time ARP told us about…
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Beautiful Books: Lost Animal Club
In this edition of Beautiful Books, NeWest Press’s Claire Kelly interviews book designer Kate Hargreaves, who worked on their new collection of short stories, Lost Animal Club by Kevin A. Couture. See Kate’s process on designing short story covers (versus fiction or nonfiction), the ins and outs of handlettering, and how to make your cat famous, one cover…
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This Week in Lit Events: September 5-11th
After an August hiatus, This Week in Lit Events is back, and more event-ful than ever!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 August 29th
Over the last week and as we head into the last holiday weekend of the summer, our thoughts have been turning towards the upcoming school year. This week’s blog content definitely had a theme plus a couple of JK Rowling mentions too. Have a great long weekend!
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What’s a Wayzgoose?
Autumn is nearly upon us, and while for most that means leaves, sleeves, and all things pumpkin-spiced, for those in the publishing biz it means WAYZGOOSE. Learn more about this silly word that, short answer, means “printer party”, and how it’s celebrated by modern-day Canadian printer-publishers.
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If You Liked x, Read y: HP Edition
Unless you were truly *~off the grid ~* this summer, you surely picked up on a renewed Pottermania fervour with the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a script of the sold-out play co-written by Potter OG J.K Rowling, as well as playwrights Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. Without spoiling anything about the…
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Beautiful Books: Magyarázni
Today, we’re immersed in the black-and-red folk beauty of Magyarázni, a dedicated and moving celebration of Hungarian culture told through an exploration of its language, alphabet, and folk motifs, by second-generation Hungarian poet Helen Hajnoczky.
Got any book recommendations?