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Wide promotional banner for The King James Bible Play featuring author Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman. The banner has a monochrome ornamental floral background with framed gray panels. On the left, a black-and-white illustration shows a hand holding a rolled sheet printed with Bible text and a dark pen-like object tipped with a yellow textured shape. In the centre, Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman smiles at the camera, wearing a bright red coat over a black top. On the right, white and pink text reads “AUTHOR OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE PLAY” and “Interview with Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman,” above the Open Book logo.

Four Centuries of Language, Power, and Creation in THE KING JAMES BIBLE PLAY

What happens when the people shaping history are just as complicated, opinionated, and fallible as everyone else? The King James Bible Play (Playwrights Canada Press) shifts between two rooms separated ...

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We Inteviewed Maya McKibbin, Mega-Talented Illustrator of MAKADE ASIN / BLACK STONE

A frightening dream turns out to be the beginning of a much more significant journey in Makade Asin / Black Stone (Groundwood Books), an English and Anishinaabemowin picture book about facing fear and ...

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Read an Excerpt from WHENEVER YOU ARE by Celebrated and Renowned YA Author Martine Leavitt

A crucial mistake is the driving force behind Martine Leavitt's new YA novel, Whenever You Are (Groundwood Books), in which the possibility of a second chance takes a strange and increasingly unsettling ...

August 18, 2026

Read an Excerpt from A HUNGRY FIRE, the New Modern Epic Novel by Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath

A centuries-old story finds a very different kind of afterlife in A Hungry Fire, where mythology becomes a way of making sense of a body that refuses to provide easy answers.Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath ...

August 13, 2026

Read an Excerpt from CARRYING WAR, the Affecting New Memoir by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Some experiences never entirely leave us. The new memoir, Carrying War (Dundurn Press) traces how encounters with violence, instability, and fear can continue to shape a life long after the immediate ...

August 12, 2026