In his recently published collection of autobiographical work  Represented Immobilized (Conundrum Press), Montreal punk legend and alternative cartoonist Rick Trembles brings together schoolyard scuffles, seedy matinees, and run-ins with inept riot cops for an unflinching ... Read more

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.

When Heather O’Neill writes that “artists are notorious for creating their art under the most perilous and inopportune circumstances,” I want so desperately to believe it. 

In an essay for  Maclean's, she states: “They create in poverty, under repressive regimes, ... Read more

Author Bindu Suresh gives us the poetry of line expanded in her novel 26 Knots (Invisible Publishing), about the tangled stories of four Montrealers and their success and failure at finding love. In this ALU Read the Provinces feature, Bindu shares more about the book ... Read more

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