Looking to add a little Province-based pedigree to your TBR, or just read more from your own backyard? We've rounded up the independently-published winners and nominees from literary awards all across Canada to make it easier than ever.

In The Running Trees, Amber McMillan’s third book, the author gambles within the genre of fiction itself, with a collection dominated by character voices rather than a deep dive in the pool of narrative. Below, we chat with Amber about researching authentic dialogue by ... Read more

This week there's launches, dramatic readings, reading series, dramatic series...you name it. Don't ever tell us that we don't take you anywhere.

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Hi, Valentines! Our single literary listing is a blowout of a festival on BC's Galiano Island: the Galiano Literary Festival!

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Today's #unwrapALU picks are for our outdoor enthusiasts, city-livers who romanticize camping trips, and anyone whose ever attempted to go off-grid. In Susanna Pfisterer's Fifty Percent of Mountaineering is Uphill (NeWest Press), we meet mountaineer extraordinaire Will Pfisterer, ... Read more

As you'll soon see, we're not over the election – we won't be over it as long as terrible things keep happening. See how that and other literary happenings played out this week.

When forfeiting the trappings of city life for an island one, Amber McMillan's young family in her memoir,  The Woods (Nightwood Editions), expect the idealism of a life closer to nature. Instead, they confront a different reality: a loss of anonymity in the micro-community ... 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!

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You may be maxxin' and relaxin' today for Victoria Day, but don't get too casual and risk missing one of the great lit events going on Canada-wide this week.

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There's a brand new slate of launches and readings this week, as well as the can't-miss  Pages Unbound festival in Toronto on Saturday and Sunday.

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