So far this Short Story Month we've featured single-author short story collections; a great way to see a writer grapple with different themes and forms in their craft. As May winds to a close, we're all about anthologies: multi-author collections that serve up a little bit of ... Read more

The ALU team met via Zoom to gush over the varied stories in our August book club pick - the anthology  After Realism (Véhicule Press) - and, spoiler alert, suggest that it might be the most ALU book club pick of all time (?!). Read on to catch some of the highlights of ... Read more

Twenty-four staggeringly talented authors contributed to our August #ALUbookclub pick, After Realism (Véhicule Press). We talk with anthology editor André Forget about making a cohesive collection out of two-dozen unique voices, and why a good revisiting of realist writing ... Read more

The Summer of Andrés continues with our August #ALUbookclub pick,  After Realism, a short fiction anthology edited by André Forget and published by Véhicule Press. To kick off the month, we share André Forget's introduction to the book and interview Véhicule Press ... Read more

We're unofficially subtitling our seventh (!) annual summer book club "The Summer of Andrés." Why? Because our two summer picks happen to be by folks named André. In July we have the culmination of André Alexis' quincunx,  Ring (Coach House Books). And in August, we ... 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. 

Today's Gift Guide book recommender is highly inventive Toronto-based author Jean Marc Ah-Sen who shares his own gifting picks for "the exclusive NYRB Classics book reader" to "the Compleat Imbiber-obsessed epicure who refuses to cook for you." 

This week's roundup includes new poetry, a performance edition of Indie Reading Room, book design, the healing power of art, and more!

At ALU we love bookish roundups and birthdays so we're putting them together and celebrating with a roundup of 6 + 6 books that made an impact on us over the last year. And we're taking 20% off any of our birthday selections for one week (until Sept 22) so you can enjoy them ... Read more

It's been an important, albeit heartbreaking news week. We continue to learn from Black communities and stand together in solidarity against anti-Black racism. Here's a  list of books by Black writers on All Lit Up that we hope you check out.

Read on for more happenings ... Read more