If you've been slacking on the hottest in Canadian books, we're here for you with this cover collage + list of some of our favourite award-winning and nominated titles and authors from across the country announced so far this year within the ALU cannon. 

This week we bookclubbed, completed another Read Harder Challenge, chatted with authors, and more!

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

Written during the decade when she became a mother and lost a mother,  Auguries (Brick Books) reflects Yukon poet Clea Roberts' evolving understanding of life and death and the tensions that exist therein. We sit down with Clea to talk more about how the ancient practice ... Read more

This week we earned some baking cred with a new cookbook dedicated to cookies, concocted a tastier-than-it-sounds cocktail to pair with a new poetry collection, interviewed authors, and more!

Our #fridayreads this week is  Worry Stones (Ronsdale Press), a first novel for author Joanna Lilley. The novel follows main character Jenny as she leaves her life in the Canadian Arctic behind after learning about her mother's stroke. Through the turmoil of reconnecting ... Read more

Lots of poetry for poetry month this week, plus, some novelists as well (one of them writing about poets, so....). Enjoy our coast-to-coast happenings!

Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, ... Read more

This week in book events: in Toronto, the Harbourfront's International Festival of Authors kicks off; GG shortlisted poet Arleen Paré reads with Stephanie Bolster and Monty Reid in Quebec; John Reibetanz reads from his poetry collection at Bookfest Windsor — ... Read more

The Fleece Era marks the debut of a strong, new writer who not only explores her own upbringing in England, but the natural world of the Yukon where she and her partner settled some years ago. Joanna Lilley writes about ordinary life and the impact that it has on the world around ... Read more