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A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.
It's lovely to see Ben Berman Ghan's great book The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits in this week's All Lit Up gift guide!
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Our second RIYL paring are two fabulous domestic thrillers. Shari Lapena is known for showing the cracks in the suburban dream in her twisty thrillers. Michelle Berry's equally atmospheric and layered mystery Everything Turns Away is the perfect follow up. bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/.../everythi...
25.11.2025 19:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is a wonderful opportunity with a great company!
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Toronto friends, this great event is happening tomorrow night! We hope you can come out. Ann Y.K. Choi and Saad Omar Khan at Flying Books, Wednesday November 26th starting at 6:30 pm.
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We have a wonderful review of Sunny Dhillon's Hide and Sikh up at the BC Review:
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/21/2...
Rivers of Time: @mishagw.bsky.social reviews Whitney French's SYNCOPATION (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social)
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Backlist Mondays: Her Name was Margaret, Life and Death on the Streets by Denise Davy. Shortlisted for the Sarton Award for Nonfiction and winner of the Hamilton Literary Award for Non-fiction, Davy chronicles with meticulous compassion the institutional failures that killed Margaret Jacobson.
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Image of book placed face down with Made By Humans Made for Humans over top in yellow type.
With AI books being in the news recently as the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards disqualified two books over AI use and other awards such as the Foreword Indies clarifying their stance disallowing AI books as well, we wanted to reaffirm that all W&W books are by humans, for humans.
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Waterloo friends, just a reminder that this great event is coming up in one week. You can register here:
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We have a wonderful interview, along with a reading, from Conor Mc Donnell up at the Narrative Based Medicine Lab:
narrativebasedmedicine.ca/updates/cono...
On the left: an image of a pile of books with a door in the middle on a white background. People are walking toward and into the door.. On the right: text that reads βForget running groups and work socials. Find a book club. A generation of lonely readers looks to make connectionsβ
The book club is having a comeback. Across Toronto, young readers are reviving a centuries-old tradition and transforming it into a way to build meaningful friendships. Journalist Janna Abbas explores: thewalrus.ca/find-a-book-club/
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Book cover The Midnight Project with text on top stating: Tomorrow 08:15 on the Friday Special Bend CKCU FM 93.1
Ottawa friends, tune in tomorrow morning to hear Christy Climenhage talking to hosts Susan Johnston, Micah Petti and Gianluca Petti and CKCU's Friday Special Blend at 93.1 FM
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An interesting lunch read: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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We've a new post up on the blog highlighting some poetry books that we feel are perfectly suited to November.
www.wolsakandwynn.ca/blog/2025/11...
Top: Book covers for Ladder to Heaven and The Wonder Lands War. Bottom: Double Book Launch, Nov 20, Cross & Crow Books 2836 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, 7 PM
Vancouver friends, we're hoping you can join us tomorrow night for the double book launch of Katie Welch's Ladder for Heaven and Peter Darbyshire's The Wonder Lands War! Cross & Crow Books, 7pm. Come celebrate with us!
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Looking for Ontario-based publishers that do it all? From fiction, to non-fiction, to poetry, to drama, we've got you covered! ππ¨π¦
Part 4 of 4!
β‘οΈ Featuring: @palimpsestpress.bsky.social, Plumleaf Press, The Porcupine's Quill, Brucedale Press, and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
The image is a "Writer's Block" graphic with the series title in the upper right corner and the All Lit Up logo in the upper left. The graphic's image is a black and white author photo of Sunny Dhillon. The cover of his memoir "Hide and Sikh" is in the bottom left corner. The cover is a gradient of vibrant purple and orange tones, and the title of the text takes up the entire cover in large, slightly transparent, sans serif white text.
Our latest #WritersBlock features @thesunnydhillon.com on his debut memoir, HIDE AND SIKH (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), how writing helps him make sense of the world, & the stories of growing up with racism he hopes will prepare others who share his experience.
π: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
Picture with text and book covers reading If you liked Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout then you'll love Drinking the Ocean by Saad Omar Khan. smaller text reads: thoughtful books about love in all its forms.
We've put together a series of RIYL's (recommended if you like) pairing our books with some well known titles to help readers find great CanLit books. This pairing is all about love, and gorgeous writing. You can learn more about Drinking the Ocean here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/dri...
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Painted cardboard illustrations of a dragon reading in a library, women and children in a bombed out landscape and a woman with a piano.
It's time for a new office window from the brilliant Joe Ollman!
18.11.2025 15:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Calgary friends, this fabulous panel on Censorship in Schools, which features our author Kit Dobson, is coming up this Thursday. You can register here:
events.ucalgary.ca/arts/event/5...
Backlist Mondays: The Western Alienation Merit Badge by Nancy Jo Cullen. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for novels, A smart book dripping in Calgarian history, Merit Badge is dramatic queer coming of age set against the backdrop of the National Energy Program.
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If you know new authors who are looking into publishing, please do encourage them to engage in their due diligence about any company they may be contacting. The are many publishing scams now and with AI they are becoming increasingly difficult to spot:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Katie Welch is on the Artsy Raven Podcast talking about her wonderful book Ladder to Heaven. You can listen here:
Youtube: youtu.be/qXmSLzqqQbU
Thank you to the publishers who support Q&Q's work with advertising. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
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ICYMI: Kamloopβs author Katie Welch was featured in BC Livingβs fall reading list!
Check out full list below.
bcliving.ca/entertainmen...
#britishcolumbia #bcliving #canlit #CanLit
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A photo of Whitney French. She is a Black woman with chin-length dreadlocks. She is standing in front of a wall and smiling into the camera.
"SYNCOPATION is doing a lot to underscore Black histories, Black geographies, and also to highlight ways of telling our tales."
We chat w/ Whitney French about her speculative novel-in-verse SYNCOPATION (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) & how Black futurism informs her work.
alllitup.ca/it-was-poetr...
Vancouver friends, our double book launch for Katie Welch and Peter Darbyshire is just one week away. We hope you can join us at Cross & Crow Books (2836 Commercial Drive) on November 20th at 7 pm to celebrate!
13.11.2025 19:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A wonderful reading of The Book of Interruptions from rob mclennan!
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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 nationβs complicated history.
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/6/...
We've a lovely review of Kyle Flemmer's Supergiants up at Sarah Hailstone's blog:
www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...
