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Electrifying Playwright Erin Shields Flips the Script on Homer and Virgil in RANSACKING TROY

In Ransacking Troy, award-winning playwright Erin Shields flips the script on the Trojan War with a fierce, feminist retelling that gives long-silenced voices the spotlight they deserve. Tired of waiting ...

How to Give Useful Writing Feedback

Many writers have friends who are also writers, and sometimes those friends ask us to give feedback on their work. Yay! We get to help our friends succeed! However, there can also be anxiety behind it. ...

Renowned Journalist Halina St. James Pens a Powerful Memoir in The Golden Daughter

Today, we're featuring a moving and crucial memoir on Open Book, in anticipation of the official release next week. The Golden Daughter is a powerful mother-daughter memoir by Halina St. James that uncovers ...

Tim Wynne-Jones and Scot Ritchie in Conversation About Their Brand New Picture Book, King of the Dump

Today we're very excited to feature a new picture book from Tim Wynne-Jones and illustrator Scot Ritchie, two acclaimed and established artists with a long list of unforgettable titles under their belts. ...

Read an Excerpt from Trachea and Other Stories, a New Work of Linked Fiction from Mayank Bhatt

A long-time fixture on the Toronto literary scene, Mayank Bhatt has built a reputation for his fiction for nearly three decades now, and his latest work of linked stories will only add to his readership.In ...

Read an Excerpt from Iris and the Dead, the Debut Novel from Miranda Schreiber

We're excited to feature the debut novel from acclaimed writer and researcher Miranda Schreiber today on Open Book. It's a haunting work that weaves elements of magical realism and folklore with grounded, ...

In Andrew Kaufman's New Short Story Collection, A Small Town Motel Can't Help but Transform Each and Every Guest

Award-winning, bestselling author Andrew Kaufman returns with Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel (Coach House Books), an absurdist collection of short fiction that will challenge and delight readers ...

Read an Excerpt From A Phial of Passing Memories by James Yékú

Poet and scholar James Yékú’ has written in a variety of forms, but he returns this month with a second poetry collection that is deep and evocative, and that firmly grounds the reader in particular ...

Read an Excerpt from The Exclusion Zone, an Atmospheric, Mysterious New Novel by Alexis von Konigslow

Almost exactly a decade after the publication of her exceptional debut novel, Alexis von Konigslow returns with a genre-bending, atmospheric work that thrums with mystery and suspense. In The Exclusion ...

Read an Excerpt from Dark Like Under by Acclaimed Author Alice Chadwick

After winning international acclaim for her debut novel, Alice Chadwick is sure to be an author on the rise and one that avid fiction readers will become increasingly familiar with in years to come. ...