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A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals! Est. 2010.
The Unravelling of Ou is on NetGalley, my darling dust bunnies!
This means, if you’re on NetGalley, you can snag an advance digital copy of my novel to read and review.
Read on NetGalley:
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Sunday November 23
6:00pm ET
A virtual reading and conversation with Shani Mootoo, author of STARRY STARRY NIGHT from @bookhugpress.bsky.social
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
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It’s #NonfictionNovember. I want to show some love for my book, Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social. It won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Thankful to everyone who’s read it.
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#NonfictionNovember spotlight with Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding our Future Through the Wampum Covenant by Daniel Coleman. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
This is an essential read for Canadians looking to understand our nation’s complicated history.
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/6/...
“Nobody wins forever.”
Today, we are featuring words from Armand Garnet Ruffo’s staggeringly powerful poetry collection, The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow, was published in spring 2024 by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social.
#remembranceday
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ben Zalkind / @radiantpress.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social ;
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Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently interviewed by Windspeaker’s Books Feature Writer, Shari Narine, about A Bow Forged from Ash—Melissa’s new poetry published by Palimpsest Press.
Read the full piece:
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@windspeaker.bsky.social
“My roots in northern Ontario aren’t that deep, but they don’t exist anywhere else.”
—Sean Minogue, author of Prodigals (Latitude 46, 2025).
Read the interview:
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/...
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@palimpsestpress.bsky.social
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LONG EXPOSURE (New Orleans, Room, 2005-2006)
He didn’t move the dress.
Polidori moved himself to make the dress
the centre of regret.
Long Exposure is the new poetry by Governor General Award winner Stephanie Bolster.
Read the full excerpt:
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/...
#poetry
Ecology Paul comes to life thanks to the irrepressibly talented New Mexico artist, Catie Powe! 🧦
Head to my blog to take a peek behind the creation of the cover art for my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social, February 15, 2026).
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/the-cre...
#canlit
Take a poetry pause with us. ✨
The excerpt here is from NMLCT — the newest collection by acclaimed poet Paul Vermeersch, published by @ecwpress.bsky.social
Also, Paul has an event tonight from 6-8 am at Sheridan College HMC campus!
Read the poem:
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/...
Sunny Dhillon was recently interviewed by John Ackermann for the CityNews Bookshelf about his powerful new book, Hide & Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social, November 11, 2025).
Read the feature:
vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/02/b...
@citynewsvancouver.bsky.social
It’s #NonfictionNovember, bookish friends!
We’re spotlighting Gina Leola Woolsey’s masterful biography, Fifteen Thousand Pieces: A Medical Examiner’s journey through disaster (Guernica Editions, 2023).
Learn more:
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@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
“The novel is a stitching together of memories of unspeakable events. Black takes us on an exciting journey through rural Ontario in the late 1800s.”
—WAHEED RABBANI, Historical Novel Society
Read the review of Lucy E.M. Black’s, A Quilting of Scars:
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/a-qu...
A Halloween poem from Poet Laureate of Scugog Township, @hollay.bsky.social 🎃
This excerpt is from, “I too live with vows”, which appears in Hollay’s chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, published by Anstruther Press.
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#halloween
You can now order a copy of my chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, directly from Anstruther Press:
www.anstrutherpress.com#/the-blades-...
This is a wee collection of occasional verse.
Thank you to Jim Johnstone for this picture, & everyone at Anstruther Press.
#poetry #chapbook
Our poetry contest is accepting original poems in the English language by poets living anywhere in the world. Thanks to sponsors @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social and judges @kimmannix.bsky.social and Rob Winger. Full details:
www.oncreativewriting.com/on-creative-...
Product of Italy 🇮🇹, Made in Canada 🇨🇦... An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience. ❤️@latitude46pub.bsky.social Celebrating my #Italian-Canadian heritage. #creativenonfiction #immigrant @randallperry.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @canadianauthors.bsky.social
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the blades of grass are dreaming (Anstruther Press, 2025) is my debut chapbook is almost out!
If you’d like a signed copy, drop me a DM or contact me HollayGhadery.ca.
Thanks to Anstruther Press, The Canada Council of the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Government of Ontario.
Jason Allen’s 52 Things to Do in Hamilton: The Insider’s Guide to Fun in the Hammer is a wide-ranging mix of activities sure to keep visitors, newcomers to the city & long-time residents exploring all through the year.
Request a review copy!
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Toronto Star—"Horror fiction round-up: 4 novels spotlight vampires, serial killers, cultists and more" #BookSky #Horror
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Durham region people and poets! Join me for our third Meta 4 Open Mic Poetry Night & Workshop
When: Wednesday, October 29 7pm
Hosted by me—Scugog Poet Laureate!
www.hollayghadery.com
Where:
META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery
200 Queen Street, Port Perry
905-985-1534
meta4gallery.ca
A wry take on machine authorship and a delightfully offbeat exploration of gender, family, and creativity, with a stylistic wink at Stanistaw Lem.”
- KR Wilson, author of Call Me Stan
DM us to request a review copy of How About This…? by Michael Mirolla now!
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Poetry contest alert!
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Into the D/Ark by David Elias, forthcoming with Radiant Press, October 21 2025–and you can see him on CTV Winnipeg!
Watch here:
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@radiantpress.bsky.social
Amazing! Thank you for this awesome feature!
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Cover of A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black
Black & White headshot of author Lucy E.M. Black
#Extract
A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
Described as 'a contemplative novel about identity, secrets, life choices, aging and mortality.'
Read:
www.swirlandthread.com/a-quilting-o...
#booksky
One of our favourite poetry reads of the year? ✨
Notes from the Ward, gorgeous new poetry from Steffi Tad-y, explores bipolar disorder and psychotic break through lived experience and a poet’s eye.
Learn more:
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DM us if you’re interested in a review copy of this book.
