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Readers Will Be Enrapt by the Siren Songs in Victoria Mbabazi's Powerful Debut Poetry Collection

With two notable and very promising chapbooks already published, Victoria Mbabazi's debut poetry collection has been eagerly anticipated. And now, with the publication of The Siren in the Twelfth House (Palimpsest ...

Erin Silver Shares Cultural and Community-based Knowledge in I Am Jewish

One of the best ways to connect with diverse communities is to learn about their culture from someone who carries lived-in knowledge of it, and to explore the many beautiful elements that make a group ...

The 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Finalists Have Been Announced

The Writers’ Trust of Canada have just announced the five finalists for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The prize is the richest annual literary award for a book of ...

Jacob Wren Stumbles Into a Strange Utopia Amidst a Raging War Zone in Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

It's a difficult task to distill the political struggles of our time into fiction, and authors run the risk of either alienating readers by doing so, or by creating a story that is simply too close to ...

A Young Girl Looks to Family Stories and a Very Powerful Poem to Find her Place in I, Too, Am Here

A true sense of belonging may be taken for granted by some, but there are many who do not find it as easily. Whether due to social and cultural issues that marginalize immigrants and people of colour, ...

Rod Carley's Latest Novel is a Theatrical Odyssey Full of Elizabethan Eccentrics

With trademark humour and vivid imagination, Rod Carley is back at it in his latest novel, a Shakespearean romp set in 17th century Stratford-upon-Avon, and in Scotland (and all the roads between). ...

Writers' Trust Announces the 2024 Finalists for Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers

The Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers is unique in the landscape of Canadian literary prizes: It is presented annually to an emerging writer who identifies as (but is not limited to) ...

Two Young Athletes Find Themselves Torn Between the Sport They Love and State Rule in Eyes on the Ice

Already the author of two critically acclaimed hockey biographies for young readers, Anna Rosner has stayed with the sport, but shifted approaches and forms in her latest work. The result is the powerful ...

An Eclectic and Gripping Cast of Characters Yearn for Happiness in Caroline Adderson's New Short Story Collection

Caroline Adderson is an author that has long been lauded amongst readers and literary critics, with a reputation for writing powerful novels, and some of the finest short fiction published in Canada and ...

Back to School Contest! Enter to Win the Complete Speak Out Series from Groundwood Books!

Groundwood Books, one of the most celebrated children's publishers in Canada, is kicking off back to school season with a fantastic giveaway of their Speak Out series. All four titles in the series will ...