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Imagine writing a novel in a second language because that language—English—allows you to be more emotionally expressive! Su Chang has accomplished this with her debut novel The Immortal Woman.
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/navigating-forbidden-histories-an-interview-with-writer-su-chang

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available! The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
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a reminder, that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to memorials of poets who have recently died ; we can't expect standard media to do this, after all,

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams Lynda Williams ’ stories have appeared in Grain , The Humber Literary Review , and The New Quarterly , among others. She holds a graduate c...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams / @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
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A Place for People Like Us by Danila Botha Reviewed by Jerry LevyDanila Botha’s novel A Place for People Like Us portrays, often in cringe-worthy detail, just how complicated and weird people can be. Is it any wonder then that some look to rel...

Thanks Jerry Levy of Ottawa Review of Books “Rarely do novels run the entire gamut of full human emotion and experience but Danila Botha has infused the plot of her excellent work…a page turner, one that continually intrigues and comes highly recommended”
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...

In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...

✨We're still celebrating these beauties! Happy Pub Day! 🎂 @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @nicolavulpe.bsky.social #CanLit #fiction #Nonfiction #essays #poetry

a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune, Hey! It's me and Toronto poet ( and above/ground press author ) Sean Braune ! We hung out together recently, the first in a long time, so t...

a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-bu...

Excerpt from "Letter to a Young Arachnid" by Amy LeBlanc, published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Amy LeBlanc's poem "Letter to a Young Arachnid" from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/letter...

A collage graphic featuring the six featured books in the All Lit Up 2025 Fall Preview: Suddenly Light, War Resisters, A Place for People Like Us, Beaver Hills Forever, The Hunt, and Syncopation.

We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...

Excerpt from "Displacement of Bodies in Time" by Christy Ann Conlin from Issue 174.

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Christy Ann Conlin's "Displacement of Bodies in Time", from Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/displa...

above/ground press author spotlights : substack, Over at the above/ground press substack [free to sign up for and free to leave] I've been posting a series of interviews with above/ground ...

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New podcast episode! Writer and academic James Cairns on his new essay collection In Crisis, On Crisis. Let us know what you think after listening.
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/33207000/james-cairns-fascination-with-the-age-of-crises-grew-from-personal-crises-of-addiction

Worthwhile thread on AI, what it’s really for and who it really serves—especially pertinent after the Eden Mills debacle

new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn, a new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book : The Roots of Modernism, conducted by poet, editor, writer and critic ( and above/ground...

new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn, / @ucpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

Excerpt from Sneha Rachel Top's story "The Baker's Filia", published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Rachel Top's "The Baker's Filia", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-ba...

Thank you for reaching out! I'm so glad the piece resonated with you.

Join us for Poetry Night — our second open mic & social of the year, happening in beautiful downtown Port, Perry, Ontario.

Where: META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery, Port Perry, Ontario

When: August 21, 2025 at 7 p.m.

@twpofscugog.bsky.social

Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis Ode to The Hi-way House OK calm down, let’s also say there is no need to write anything down for a while, Let’s think back on all the ...

Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis
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penultimate day of middle daughter swimming lessons [which she claims she does not need, she can already swim well enough to save herself and an underweight child, she says; the fact that her younger sister is not an underweight child is not something she is concerned about];

Excerpt from Mimi Mahmud's "The Not-To-Do-List", an exclusive story from the 2025 X-Page Performance Workshop.

Click here to read "The Not-To-Do-List" by Mimi Mahmud, an exclusive story from the 2025 X-Page Performance Workshop: tnq.ca/the-not-to-d...

Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her debut as author of the week and much more!
southsidebroadcasting.podbean.com/e/lynda-will...

A very special blurb from the inimitable @jessicastellaa.bsky.social! This one made me cry. THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN, out September 9 in Canada, September 30 in the US!

Thanks for the share!

Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her latest novel 'The Beauty and the Hell of It' with Inside the Minds of Authors!
www.youtube.com/live/_l5_vA0...

It’s publication day! The ED Recovery Journal got to number 1 in the charts when it was released and it would be a dream come true for that to happen again. You can order here on Amazon, but it’s also available online from the publisher and all major bookstores.

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The countdown to THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is on! I'll be sharing more nice things in the weeks to come, but for now here is a very lovely blurb from the brilliant Alex Gonzalez. You can preorder now! Publishing on September 9 in Canada and September 30 in the US. MORE FROM ME SOON.

TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @hollay.bsky.social talks to @alicefitzp.bsky.social “A Dark Death” (Stonehouse Publishing) & Chris Hutchinson “Lost Signal” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!

Interview with Lynda Williams Danila Botha Interviews Author Lynda Williams

Such a pleasure to speak with @danilabotha.bsky.social about craft and my upcoming collection of stories, The Beauty and the Hell of It, ( @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ).

Interview with Lynda Williams www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/interview-...

above/ground press author spotlight #7 : Lydia Unsworth / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ;
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