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April 04, 2025Amy LeBlanc Explores What Happens When a Body No Longer Feels Like a Home in Her New Poetry Collection
There are many works of art about illness and disability, but the language and metaphors used to explore such conditions can often be infused with negative, even violent terms that do not truly represent ...
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April 22, 2025A Working Actor Feels Destined to Be a Star At Any Cost in Meredith Hambrock's Darkly Comic Novel
Meredith Hambrock's debut novel received acclaim from some lofty heights in the literary world, including The New York Times, and the author is back again to go from strength to strength in yet another ...
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June 17, 2025Read an Excerpt from The Road to Goderich by Linda McQuaig
Bestselling author and renowned journalist Linda McQuaig is back this summer with a gripping historical novel set against the backdrop of the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion. It's an epic drama that will ...
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June 26, 2025Read an Excerpt from The Midnight Project, a Riveting New Science-Fiction Novel by Christy Climenhage
The best science-fiction writers of our time have not only created imaginative and inventive worlds, but they've also managed to tap into the zeitgeist in terms of societal commentary. This leads to lasting ...
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July 14, 2025Read 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 ...
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20 hours agoThe Irrepressible Maggie Lou Returns in a New Chapter Book from Arnolda Dufour Bowes
Today, we’re delighted to feature an exciting new chapter book in Maggie Lou Meets Her Match (Groundwood Books), the lively sequel to Maggie Lou, Firefox by Arnolda Dufour Bowes. As we kick off this ...
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December 13, 2016CanLit's Next Generation: The 2016 Winners of IFOA's Write Across Ontario Student Writing Competition!
Every year, IFOA Ontario's Write Across Ontario student writing competition invites young authors across the province to submit their best work and show us what CanLit has to look forward to. We at Open ...
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November 14, 2018On Fairy Tales
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live…[w]e look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition ...
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September 12, 2016Excerpt from for All the Men (And Some of the Women) I've Known
Hi Open Book Readers,I want to share one of the short stories from For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known.The book is divided into sections: Meeting, Falling In, Falling Out, Friendship and ...
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November 04, 2020"There are Moments of Grace and Joy" The 2020 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists on What They Love About Writing Fiction
The Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (formerly the Writers' Trust Rogers Fiction Prize) is one of the biggest literary awards in the country, with a $50,000 prize purse and a history of highlighting some ...
