Leslie Vryenhoek's gritty, page-turning novel We All Will Be Received (Breakwater Books) grew from a stay at an odd roadside motel in Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula and the idea of being off-grid. Leslie tells us more about how her novel came to be, displacement, and ... Read more

This weekend, we explore the New York art scene, get tangled up in a series of love knots, and rage over home renovations. Pack that summer book bag and get lost...in one of our recommended reads below.

It's Freedom to Read Week: an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom. There's events happening all over the country! That aside, there's whole host of literary events going down this week.

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Our  Super Secret Festival of Lit rolls on with Day 6 of our mystery title reveals! Our meta-mystery pick is a beautifully written, sparse novella that won some serious acclaim in its hometown of Denmark. Buy any one of our mystery/thriller picks from now until December ... Read more

Holy Toledo: there are THREE LPG40 events coming at'cha this week in St. John's, Vancouver, and Winnipeg! Not enough? There's also IFOA going down in Toronto, and some author readings mixed in for good measure.

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Today's poetry primer pick is brought to us by the letter W: W as in Warner, or Patrick Warner, and his choice for an emerging poet to watch: Shoshanna Wingate.

It’s National Poetry Month, friends! Hands up if you’re excited! Ours are definitely up, way up. 2015 marks our third annual blog series celebrating National Poetry Month but our first on All Lit Up.

This week in book events: writers bare it all in Montreal at the Live Nude Writers Event; Coach House Press celebrates its fall launch of books with a party in Toronto; Dawn Durmont launches her novel, Rose's Run, at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon;  I Found It at the ... Read more

Despite what's probably happening outside your window right now, it is actually May tomorrow, which means National Poetry Month is coming to an end. Poetry City reaches its conclusion pretty much as far east as we can get, in St. John's, Newfoundland. Breakwater has published ... Read more

Poetry lovers, it's that time of year once again, the most wonderful time of year... it's National Poetry Month! Pardon us for our excitement, but as a group of Canadian literary publishers that has produced 160 poetry collections over the last year alone, NPM is like Christmas, ... Read more