Librarian and Lambda Literary award winner ( Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Metonymy Press) Hazel Jane Plante shares six choice titles by queer and trans writers for Pride Month. 

This week we welcomed #ALUbookclub for another patio season, interviewed authors, shared book picks for National Indigenous Peoples Day, and more.

We chat with poet and author of the recently published collection  Mad Long Emotion (Coach House Books) Ben Ladouceur — who the Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury called "someone with chops and fodder, someone fully formed and bent on risk" — about the magic of re-reading ... Read more

This week we got our club wear (books, obviously) ready for ALU summer book club, proudly launched Indigenous Litspace, a site we're dedicating to Indigenous works, and one of our staffers finally read Martha Baillie's 2014 novel The Search for Heinrich Schlögel.

This week we learned the word "crossip," rolled some short story dice, imagined what superheroes would read, and more.

As a screenwriter, essayist, biographer, and poet, Christopher Gudgeon writes poetry that pulls at you. Today's poem, "Future Tops of America" (from his latest collection  Assdeep in Wonder from Anvil Press), paints a near-wholesome picture of a future where those in ... Read more

Ottawa's VERSEfest is going on this week; if you're in that neck of the woods, be sure to check out their  amazing programming. We've included events with All Lit Up authors here for your convenience.

Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available ... Read more

WAKE UP from that Turkey-coma: there's literary events to be had. If you're in Toronto, be sure to  celebrate the LPG's 40th Anniversary with us at Ben McNally this Thursday. And if you're not, there's tons of great things going on Canada-wide, like WordFest in Calgary! ... Read more

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.

We're celebrating Pride Week 2015 with a new selection of LGBTQ books published over the last year. If you want even more Pride picks, don't forget to check out our World Pride Reads list from last year!