About the Author
Heather O'Neill
Heather O'Neill has lived in Virginia and Montreal. She is a spoken word artist, musician and writer, widely published in journals as well as widely known on the Eastern Seaboard for her spoken word performances. She wrote the screenplay for the film St. Jude, directed by John L'Ecuyer, and is the author of the award-winning novel Lullabies for Little Criminals.
Back at it for another year, we at All Lit Up made reading resolutions to challenge us throughout 2021. Scroll on for our reading resolutions and books in our TBR piles this year.
First Fiction Friday covers all kinds of debuts – this one happens to be celebrated Montreal writer Abla Farhoud's first novel translated into English! Hutchison Street (Linda Leith Publishing) is a love letter to books and writing, and to the varied inhabitants of Montreal. ... Read more
We've got a lot to review this week: from staff discussions and goodbyes to biographical fiction and video games to ill-advised literary wine campaigns...it's all here in our weekly roundup!
This is our THIRD time painting the Giller shortlist onto our digits (see 2015 and 2016 here) – we can't stop, won't stop our excitement for this year's deserving nominees. Of course, we're most excited for Michelle Winter's I Am a Truck (Invisible Publishing)...there ... Read more
There's a ton of inspiring, amazing women in this week's blog features on All Lit Up, including a nod to our own mothers who we literally wouldn't be here without, and some short but mighty fiction.
Ariela Freedman's Arabic for Beginners (Linda Leith Publishing) sets the intimate within the international: a friendship between women in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the friendship between an Israeli mother, Hannah, and a Palestinian one deepens, ... Read more
For Women's History Month, we've saved Wednesdays for highlighting Canadian women writers, their latest work, and their writing process. This week, we feature Danila Botha, whose latest short story collection For All The Men (and Some of The Women) I've Known (Tightrope ... Read more
It's Day Four of our Super Secret Festival of Lit mystery title reveals! Our short story pick is a debut collection that covers the fundamentals of relationships of all kinds – love, work, family, sex – with a wisdom and insight that will hit readers in the feels. ... Read more
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