About the Author
Chelsea Rooney
Chelsea Rooney is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MFA program in creative writing. She is a host of The Storytelling Show on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and has been a regular contributor to Project Space’s artist-publishing web series (www.projectspace.ca) since spring 2013. Her nonfiction has been published and performed in various publications and productions across Canada. PEDAL is her first novel.
This week we welcomed the new year with our backs to 2017 and reading resolutions that are as good as carved in stone (ie: on the internet).
It's tradition at ALU to make bookish resolutions at the start of each year, and we're back with more for 2018. Check out our reading resolutions below.
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. In honour of International ... Read more
Frequent visitors to ALU may have noticed a new publisher on the block recently: Caitlin Press. Started in 1977 by Carolyn Zonailo as a feminist literary press, Caitlin has a long history as a proud British Columbia publisher. Since the beginning, and through a few changes ... Read more
A beautiful blend of established and debut writers, books, and collections await you, Canada-wide, in this issue of This Week in Book Events.
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, ... Read more
We're cycling to feature the next book in our Get to Know Them First series, Pedal, by Chelsea Rooney. Quill & Quire's Steven Beattie calls Pedal "simultaneously lacerating and deeply empathetic. It confronts difficult material in a frank and unflinching manner, ... Read more
Last week we celebrated new releases with our Fall Preview: five whole days with over 20 new titles recommended. While that's a lot of books and your TBR pile for fall may be filling up faster than your dinner plate at Thanksgiving, we aren't quite finished.
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