This year, with the return of in-person events All Lit Up will be at the OLA Superconference with the LPG in booth #414. All featured titles will be 20% off online and at the event until February 4th. Make sure to check out this amazing selection of books.

Is one of your reading goals in 2023 to read more Indigenous lit? Try these six New Year, New Me picks - a mix of fiction, drama, poetry, creative anthology, and YA non-fic - to help you get started.

Both designer Tania Willard and Secwépemc poet Garry Gottfriedson take a moment to discuss the inspiration and meaning behind Gottfriedson’s cover for his latest collection Bent Back Tongue (Caitlin Press).

Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light is participating in BookRiot's Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along with ... Read more

Happy National Poetry Month (NPM)! We’ve got our fists up with our series Poets Resist dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day on the blog we’re featuring a poet whose work explores one of these: colonialism and violence, homophobia and transphobia, environmental ... Read more

Garry Gottfriedson's Deaf Heaven (Ronsdale Press) is our third feature in our National Poetry Month series, Poets Resist. Published last year, his poetry collection explores postcolonial issues while also paying attention to First Nations internal problems with a fresh, ... Read more

Fists up for National Poetry Month! And we mean that in the best way possible. This year, we feel everyone could see a little more solidarity and community, so we're getting poetically political with Poets Resist, a series dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day ... Read more

Garry Gottfriedson returns with his fourth collection with Ronsdale Press, Deaf Heaven, continuing where he left off with a fresh suite of power-packed poetry. Drawing from his own experiences in the Secwepemc (Shuswap) First Nation in the interior of British Columbia, Gottfriedson ... Read more

Marie "Annharte" Baker is the 2015 winner of the inaugural Blue Metropolis First People Literary Prize for her last poetry collection, Indigena Awry, published by New Star Books in 2012. When we asked Annharte to suggest an emerging poet she chose Chris Bose, a writer and ... Read more

If you’re at all familiar with All Lit Up, you know that we tend toward the quirky, the new, the different. Our unique Inspire! preview gives you the lowdown of not-to-miss sessions with some of our fantastic authors and publishers for almost every kind of reader: nine things ... Read more