House of Anansi Press
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Anansi publishes very good books. 📖 Distributed by Jaguar in Canada and PGW in the U.S. Visit our website: https://houseofanansi.com/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky_profile
🎲 Learn how to play THE GAME OF BIRDS, a beautiful card game of skill and wonder based on THE BOOK OF BIRDS by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane. 🪶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHn8...
How to Play The Game of Birds 🎲
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Tickets are now available for the @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social and @houseofanansi.bsky.social Massey Lectures www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
How to get tickets to Leilani Farha’s CBC Massey Lectures | CBC Radio
If you live in Toronto, Halifax, Yellowknife, Vancouver or Ottawa, the CBC Massey Lectures are coming to your city. Join us for a live recording of Leilani Farha's Massey Lecture, Housing Inc.: A Glob...
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Massey College@masseycollege.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are pleased to announce Housing, Inc.: A Global Takeover and Our Fight for Home by Leilani Farha as the 2026 CBC Massey Lecture, presented in partnership with @houseofanansi.bsky.social and @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social houseofanansi.com/products/hou... #CBCMasseyLectures #CBCMassey #MasseyLectures
PLANET EARTH by Nicholas Ruddock, published by @houseofanansi.bsky.social, is a collection of short love stories set in a time of planetary decline. youtu.be/PXidYqgA--0 #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #Canlit #canadianliterature #fiction #canadianfiction
Reading: Planet Earth by Nicholas Ruddock
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Get to know Jackie Morris — the artist, bird lover, and co-creator of THE BOOK OF BIRDS, publishing May 7th. Read The Globe and Mail feature below! 🪶 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Illustrator Jackie Morris’s birds of wonder take flight
For her most ambitious work yet, the artist collaborates with author Robert Macfarlane for a field guide to 49 threatened species
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"As The Earth Dreams" is a Top 10 Finalist for the Locus Awards!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who read and voted! I am SO GIDDY!!! 💜🩵🖤 locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...
2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…
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Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Cassidy McFadzean (@cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social) about skewing prepositions, trusting the reader, opting for vibes over plot, and so much more. tinyurl.com/48fwkktn @houseofanansi.bsky.social
A short-lived community lingers long after it is gone in TEMPORARY PALACES (@houseofanansi.bsky.social). Check out our interview with the author of this "punk rock hymn," Jeff Miller, in advance of the April 21st release! #AmReading #Novel #Fiction #CanLit open-book.ca/News/A-Short...
A Short-Lived Community Lingers Long After it is Gone in TEMPORARY PALACES
A short-lived community leaves a long afterlife in Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi Press), a debut novel from Jeff Miller that circles back to one ...
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My review of Pitiful, a remarkable new #poetry collection by Brandi Bird, newly published by @houseofanansi.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2026/03/30/2...
Joanna Streetly reviews Pitiful, by Brandi Bird
Joanna Streetly reviews Pitiful, by Brandi Bird (Toronto: House of Anansi, 2026) $22.99 / 9781487014087
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Just started reading Seven Heavens Away, an excellent novel by the Palestinian Canadian poet Ashraf Zaghal, newly published by @houseofanansi.bsky.social
#NationalPoetryMonth spotlight 1: an excerpt from “Post-Memory” by Brandi Bird’s collection, Pitiful (House of Anansi, 2026). Learn more: houseofanansi.com/products/pit... Photo credit of Brandi: Geoffrey Wallang #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #readmorepoetry
Happy one-year anniversary to Myth! 🌴🌙👽🧜🏾♀️🌊❤️ Thank you to everyone who read and reviewed my wistful, tropical, moon-filled book of poems! And thank you to @houseofanansi.bsky.social for taking care of my debut 🥹❤️ Through Myth, I've learned so much about myself and my writing, and I'm so grateful!
"Blais’ characters are vivacious, vibrant, and even the dead quiver with life." India Das-Brown reviews 𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/toge... @houseofanansi.bsky.social @kgrubisic.bsky.social
Delighted to share that #ADaughtersPlace is a 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist in the #HistoricalFiction category. Thank you, @houseofanansi.bsky.social, for believing in this project! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...
"A Daughter's Place" is a 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist
"A Daughter's Place" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Historical (Adult Fiction). Madrid, 1599. Following her mother’s sudden death, fifteen-year-old Isabel goes to live in the family home of her fath...
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From a banned novel spanning five decades of a woman's life in Iran to the account of a Kurdish-Iranian journalist from prison, these books tell the stories and perspectives of Iranian authors. 🔗 Learn more about these books on our website: https://houseofanansi.com
A look at our upcoming poetry 💛 📚: THE WREN by A.F. Moritz, PITIFUL by Brandi Bird, and ULTRA BLUE by Graeme Bezanson All collections publish April 7th, learn more here: https://ow.ly/r8C750YpVrq #booksky #poetry
Celebrating the sisterhood of very good books this #InternationalWomensDay 💛 Explore all of our books authored by women on our website: https://houseofanansi.com #IWD2026
Join me for the launch of The Wren @houseofanansi.bsky.social i on April 9th, 6:30pm, at Flying Books on College! Information and RSVP links on my website! www.afmoritz.com/save-the-dat...
Save the Date: The Wren launches at Flying Books on April 9th - A. F. MORITZ
Mark your calendars and join me for the official launch of The Wren at 6:30pm, Thursday, April 9th, at Flying Books, 784 College, Toronto. I’ll be in conversation with the book’s editor, Michael Redhi...
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We're so happy to have been able to reschedule our event with Monique Gray Smith! She'll now be joining us on Friday May 29 at 7pm to discuss Sharing the Light (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) with host Shelagh Rogers. www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18917/...
small one has ringette practice, so getting my first look through these new Anansi titles by Lisa Low, Brandi Bird (coming to VERSeFest this month) and Graeme Bezanson, // @houseofanansi.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
Finished reading the #ShortStory anthology "As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories." amzn.to/49zs6wn 📖🇨🇦👽🧙👻 This had a bunch of interesting and clever #SpeculativeFiction #ShortStories. #books #reading #ScienceFiction #SciFi #fantasy #horror @houseofanansi.bsky.social #BookSky
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories
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#GIVEAWAY on Goodreads for TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller, out April 21st. ✨ Giveaway is open until March 31, with 10 available copies to win. ✨ 🔗 Click here to enter: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/427640-temporary-palaces-a-novel
What's on our radar this month? Sandwich Generation, Family Drama, One Day in Yellowknife, and the Boys of Jerusalem: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02... #CanLit @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social
On Our Radar: Sandwich Generation, Family Drama, One Day in Yellowknife, and the Boys of Jerusalem · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
Every month, our editor enthuses about the books piling up on her mind and on her nightstand.
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"It's a very practical thing. It's a matter of finally being able to go to the dentist or paying overdue bills." Poet Karen Solie on the financial impact of winning a book prize. @houseofanansi.bsky.social Listen to the full conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
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Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · February 23 · 30m
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From the acclaimed author of A WAITER IN PARIS comes a captivating true crime story about an unsolved murder that scandalized a nation. 🔗 MURDER IN PARIS ’68 by Edward Chisholm publishes June 9th and is available for pre-order now. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/SJfs50Yl7rq #BookSky #TrueCrime
✨ THE CREATION OF HALF-BROKEN PEOPLE by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award! 🏆 Congratulations to Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu! 🔗 Learn more about THE CREATION OF HALF-BROKEN PEOPLE here: https://ow.ly/FKON50Ykh3F #BookSky
🌟 #GIVEAWAY on Goodreads for INHERITANCE by Jane Park (out April 7th)! 🌟 ✨ Giveaway is open until March 20, with 10 available copies to win. ✨ 🔗 Click here to enter: https://ow.ly/MFry50YkfYw Giveaway is open to Canada only.
Spoiler for tomorrow's episode. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca Please find it (and leave a review) at all the podcast places. thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha... @houseofanansi.bsky.social
🛀 DEFINITELY THRIVING by Kerry Clare is the heartening and hilarious story of a woman who just doesn’t have it all figured out just yet! 🫧 🔗 DEFINITELY THRIVING publishes March 17th and is available for pre-order now! Click here to learn more: https://ow.ly/X7zS50YhSAU #BookSky #BookRecs
