✨🌸✨Happy International Women’s Day! ✨🌸✨
Here’s a spread of phenomenal forthcoming books by Canadian and Indigenous women authors. Why not add a few to your TBR?
#iwd2026 #internationalwomensday #readmorewomen #bookstagram #feministliterature
✨🌸✨Happy International Women’s Day! ✨🌸✨
Here’s a spread of phenomenal forthcoming books by Canadian and Indigenous women authors. Why not add a few to your TBR?
#iwd2026 #internationalwomensday #readmorewomen #bookstagram #feministliterature
In honour of International Women’s Day, I’ve shared an essay from my memoir, Fuse, to my blog:
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/397bc70...
This essay explores eating disorders, self-harm and addiction in detail, so please be gentle with yourself if you decide to read.
#iwd2026
#queerlit
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✨🌈PLENTITUDE MAGAZINE ✨🌈 Featuring Editor Shawn Syms!
Plentitude isn’t the only LGBTQ2S+ online literary journal. It’s not even the only Canadian queer/trans lit publication. But it’s probably one of the longest running — and perhaps one of the most prolific.
Learn more: plenitudemagazine.ca.
ICYMI: The new and forthcoming nonfiction by Andrea Gunraj and Kasia Van Schaik are on the CBC’s 2026 list of anticipated spring nonfiction!
#NonFiction
YEEESSSSSSSS!
05.03.2026 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LOVE it! "Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive," by Alison Gadsby, "...feels more like a twisted version of Chicken Soup For The Soul."🙏Shirin E. from Fully Booked and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social Review below.
fully-booked.ca/reviews/brea...
Today we're highlighting a new novel! Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is an expansive and moving story about family, environmental activism, climate change, secrets, and loss, set in a small mountain town.
Read an excerpt from the book here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-fall-d...
🙌🏼✨🫶🏼
04.03.2026 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today and everyday, we are celebrating phenomenal women’s literature.
🫶🏼 Join our community of reviewers (and score complementary copies of books!): www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...
#internationalwomensmonth
✨ Coming soon ✨ My Mother Joins the Resistance by Governor General Award winner Richard Harrison, forthcoming April 7, 2026 with Wolsak & Wynn
Request a review copy:
www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
#poetry
Check out this awesome interview with David Giuliano, author of (most recently) The Upending of Wendell Forbes, published by Latitude 46 Publishing.
@latitude46pub.bsky.social
buymeacoffee.com/michaelparke...
#litfic
I am swooning with gratitude for this incredible review of my novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which was just released by Palimpsest Press. You can read the full review at TNQ.ca.
tnq.ca/under-review...
♥️
@thenewquarterly.bsky.social
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social
#litfic #bookreview
Our Under Review series returns with Allison Snelgrove reviewing @hollay.bsky.social latest “The Unravelling of Ou”.
Read the full review: tnq.ca/under-review...
#underreview #bookreview #booksky
Festival of Literary Diversity graphic. Festival registration opens March 25 at thefoldcanada.org
If you're interested, I will be at The Festival of Literary Diversity in May.
I will answer questions like "Who are you?" and "Why are you here?" and "Do you not know how to pronounce Sikh?"
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @thefoldcanada.bsky.social #canlit #booksky
@hollay.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
25.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Unravelling of Ou—the novel by award-winning Iranian-Canadian author Hollay Ghadery—was featured in Foreword Reviews Writers of Color column!
“The Unraveling of Ou is an insightful novel about personhood, emotional well-being, and the often fraught relationships between mothers and daughters.”
@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
24.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“One of the fascinating aspects of this book is that it is partially set at the tipping point of when the colonized notion of what would become Canada went from the French regime to British rule.“
Read Mike Cohen’s interview with Marie-Josée Poisson:
linktr.ee/RiverStreetW...
#translation
How lucky am I? In this NBN episode, award-winning and celebrated novelist Farzana Doctor interviews me about my novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which was released by Palimpsest Press on February 15, 2026.
Listen to the conversation:
newbooksnetwork.com/the-unravell...
#litfic
NBCC member Hollay Ghadery’s forthcoming novel, "The Unravelling of Ou," was reviewed at Quill & Quire:
30.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
✨Coming soon ✨ Go-Between Girl: My Indentured Roots as Reclaimed Present by Andrea Gunraj, forthcoming with Penguin Random House April 14, 2026.
Request a review copy:
www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...
#nonfictionreads
#nonfiction #colonialism #feministliterature #nonfictionbooks
Poets, no matter how experienced, will learn something from this new interview with David Martin. He explores his diverse reading and his editing process for refining his poems. Thanks to
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social for co-ordinating this interview :)
www.oncreativewriting.com/post/david-m...
Check out this excerpt of STAN ON GUARD by @krwbooks.bsky.social! Thank you @civilianreader.com and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
20.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
CBC Books: 3 Black Canadian writers to watch in 2026 #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/3-blac...
Friends in Burlington, we've a wonderful event coming up on March 8th at the Burlington Public Library. You can sign up here:
attend.bpl.on.ca/event/15665201
🌲 COMING SOON! 🌲The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston, published by Book*hug Press, April 21, 2026
Request a review copy:
www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...
@lizjohnston.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social
#litfic
Just in case you missed it! Here are the winners of On Creative Writing's 2025 poetry contest! Thank you to judges Rob Winger and @kimmannix.bsky.social and sponsors @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social !
www.oncreativewriting.com/post/announc...
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
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DYK: requesting a Canadian book into your local library can financially benefit the author? 📚
It’s true, thanks to the Public Lending Right program, which is a Canada Council for the Arts initiative run by the PLR Commission.
Learn more about PLR:
publiclendingright.ca
#library #canlit
