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Tea Gerbeza Challenges Ableist Perceptions of Normalcy in How I Bend Into More
Among the many complex themes in Tea Gerbeza's work, reclaiming disabled identity, disability justice, and disabled and queer joy are just a sampling. These concerns and more find their way onto the ...
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February 10, 2025
Historian Steven High Unpacks the Surprising Early-Nineties Triumph and Collapse of Bob Rae's NDP
As the current political climate in North America continues to shift and evolve, there have been clear signs that the dominant forms of conservatism and liberalism from the late 20th century are finding ...
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February 06, 2025
Gwen Lamont's Young Self Writes Her Way Home in The View From Coffin Ridge
As an academic with a deep understanding of the impact of trauma, Gwen Lamont used what she had learned from her own life to bridge the gap between her story and those that she studied and researched. ...
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February 05, 2025
Creator Conversations: Leila Boukarim & Ruaida Mannaa talk Sundays Are For Feasts
When it comes to picture books, collaboration is everything, and we're always thrilled to have both the author and illustrator of one of our featured titles in conversation, and to learn more about the ...
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January 30, 2025
Audiobook Magic
Poetry books rarely come in audio format, and perhaps this is the reason it’s taken me until 2025 to discover the magic of audiobooks. In 2024, I began writing more fiction after several years of focusing ...
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January 30, 2025
Audiobook Magic
Poetry books rarely come in audio format, and perhaps this is the reason it’s taken me until 2025 to discover the magic of audiobooks. In 2024, I began writing more fiction after several years of focusing ...
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January 28, 2025
A New Poetry Collection from Irene Marques Invites the Reader to Re-Enter Their Truly Bare Bones
Our featured poet today, Irene Marques, is an internationally renowned academic and author, with her many works published in a multitude of languages. In her latest collection, Marques focuses on "the ...
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January 28, 2025
Grant Writing 101: Support Material
When I’m not writing books, I write grants for artists and non-profits and if my inbox is any indication, nothing says the new year like applying for grants! Let’s start 2025 with some grant funding!!!For ...
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January 24, 2025
CBC Canada Reads Announces the 2025 Finalists and This Year's Literary Champions
The Canada Reads 2025 shorlist is here!This morning, CBC Books announced the finalists for the competition, in which they were "looking for one book to change the narrative." As stated on the Canada Reads ...
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January 24, 2025
Read an Excerpt from The Earth Bleeds at Night, the Chilling New Anthology from Eerie River Publishing
We're kicking off the new year by welcoming some new members to the Ontario Book Publishing Organization, and one of those exciting presses is Eerie River Publishing, who specialize in high-quality anthologies. One ...