Andrew Faulkner

📣 Coming May 2026 📣 Mom Camp by Véronique Darwin

Available for preorder through bookstores and libraries and direct from our site: assemblypress.ca/shop/mom-camp

📣 Coming April 2026 📣 Do It Wrong by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
is a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas, and approaches to writing and teaching poetry.

Preorder your copy now from us, your fav book shop, or request it from your library! 📚

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Happy North American pub day to @dani-netherclift.bsky.social and the long and gorgeous essay that is Vessel!

“Lyrical and allusive, Vessel is a memoir about a personal tragedy and a moving meditation on what remains of the dead.”—starred review, Foreword Reviews

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I really love this one, it's so so good.

2026 is the 10th anniversary of my 1st book of baseball essays, The Utility of Boredom. I'm writing a preface to an anniversary edition that @invisibooks.bsky.social will publish in '26 and I’m struck by some parallels between this moment and 2015. 🧵1/

Books to Read at the World Series · Lists · 49th Shelf Okay, Blue Jays! Let's play ball.

Need to fill the next few days before the World Series starts? How about some baseball books from Canadian writers? 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WorldSeries #CanLit

Nothing like a Monday morning hard launch: Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations.

More details on our website!

I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

a box that says New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.

three of these boxes on a step! they say New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.

three of these boxes on a step! they say New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.

one of these boxes in front of a door

this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying

SAVE THE DATE!

I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]

Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch

We remain as committed as ever to promoting voices and perspectives that represent all facets of the human experience, in one's country, in one's language, and in one's body. If you're able to support our work with a donation, now is a critical time.

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Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.

Yes, this. My book is called Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living. It's about how a game some of us love for fun is also a job. And about a doctor who was really good at striking out Babe Ruth.

Thank you for your time, you may now resume doomscrolling.

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Hub Pruett, LHP, St. Louis Browns, 1922 (Photo by Charles M. Conlon). Pruett's story fascinated me, and pursuing it led me to write Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (April 15, @pressassembly.bsky.social).

A new Maggie Helwig book is a good thing, though wish she didn’t have to write this. A vital, righteous voice.

The founding of Assembly Press, her ongoing love for her debut collection, and how the world of books has changed in the quarter-century since its publication - my conversation with author and publisher @nashls.bsky.social

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I’m Sheridan’s writer in residence. Here’s what the college will lose when it suspends a writing program The loss of Sheridan College's creative writing and publishing program will have devastating consequences for Canadian literature.

I taught in CW&P as a PT instructor for years. My time there wasn't perfect (read: exploitation of sessionals), I'm saddened that management is cutting the program. The students were great, and the faculty I met were more than welcoming. CW&P has great potential: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Speculative Fiction? No, That's Just Reality. Award-winning author Gary Barwin discusses the fiction of reality and the reality of fiction and the way our imagination always wins the day.

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One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

i read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and it’s incredibly powerful & should be read by everyone. In the interest of making the words of @omarelakkad available to as many people as possible, we’re taking pre-orders at 40% off at kingsbookstore.ca/oneday

Is this a one-sentence outline for a Peter Counter book or

Rob should win the Governor General's Award for Book Science for so clearly articulating the correct owned-to-read ratio.

We've made a few starterpacks for others who are interested in indie bookstores and publishers! Find them both on our page 💙📚

I say this all the time.

This one is great!

A graphic showing Publishers Marketplace announcements for the first list of titles by Assembly Press, set for publication in fall 24. Book titles include The Lodgers by Holly Pester; Scandal in the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 1984-2024 by Gary Barwin; Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community by Phoebe Wang; Inherent by Kevin Stebner; Story is a State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity & Story is a State of Mind: 50 prompts to inspire your daily writing practice by Sarah Selecky.

📣 Introducing the class of fall 2024 📣

Our first list is broadly representative of the kinds of books we want to bring into the world with Assembly, with a novel, short stories, essays, poetry, a deck of writing prompts, and writing craft book. There's something for everyone!

Message reads Reminder: submissions close December 18 against a crumpled paper background. Image includes black Assembly Press megaphone logo and social media handle @pressassembly.

Heads up: our first round of open submissions closes at 11:59pm ET on December 18! Learn more about Assembly and what we're looking for here: assemblypress.ca/submissions

And stay tuned for news on our next submission period in early 2024.

The book HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.

HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY has been out for one glorious month. Thank you everyone who helped me celebrate my second book with your thoughtful reviews, enthusiastic congratulations, participation in events, and spreading the word. You're all diamonds!

In a smart and hyper-quotable article, don’t sleep on this little nugget: “the recent rise of the blockbuster model means that the Big Five relegate many of even their own books to obscurity too.”

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