How does the cover design process change when you're particularly close to the work, and author? Award-winning book designer Ingrid Paulson walks us through what it was like designing for Matt Cahill's new novel  Radioland (Wolsak & Wynn) - a book by her spouse, one she'd ... Read more

Last week  we introduced you to our August book club pick, Rahela Nayebzadah's Monster Child and shared a short interview with publisher Wolsak and Wynn for a behind-the-scenes look at how the book came together. This week, we got our Zoom book club on to talk about ... Read more

All Lit Up's Summer Book Club continues this month with another brand new read: Rahela Nayebzadah's Monster Child from Wolsak and Wynn/Buckrider Books sparked us from its very first pages. Today we talk to Paul Vermeersch, senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn, about publishing the ... Read more

Paul Vermeersch’s poetry has always been fascinated with the question of what makes us human. From the human body to the human mind, from our place in society to our place in the cosmos, Vermeersch’s latest book Shared Universe: New & Selected Poems 1995-2020  (ECW ... Read more

This week we got cooking with the right ingredients for five short story books to make your quarantine more digestible, talked about community, writing, and Ma Anand Sheela, discovered a near-future dystopian debut, and more.

Designer Kilby Smith-McGregor takes us through the various iterations of cover art for Gary Barwin's audacious and wise-cracking collection of poetry For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe (Wolsak & Wynn). We learn more about how Kilby's final design for the book ... Read more

Tune into the decidedly psychedelic, 1970s-album art stylings that are the design elements of David James Brock's poetry collection  Ten-Headed Alien (Wolsak & Wynn). David takes us through some of the prog rock and classic sci-fi inspirations for the cover and interiors ... Read more

What happens to superheroes when they retire? Peter Darbyshire's short story collection Has the World Ended Yet? (Wolsak and Wynn) begins with that question in an unremarkable suburbia, home to ex-superheroes, where everyone gets lost making their way home. In a series of ... Read more

Get into the late-fall launch groove with our featured readings and launches this week, including two Brick Books Classics launches in Victoria and Toronto.

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

Lots to do in this week in book events: including the ushering in of a new Giller winner! With a 3/5 chance of it being an indie book, we like those odds!

And of course, it's Remembrance Day on Wednesday, folks – please do take a moment to reflect in whichever way suits you ... Read more