A reminder that we're down at Word on the Street Toronto today and tomorrow! Come down and say hi at Booth #1! toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca

Today's Follow Friday post is Rob McLennan. Either his blog: robmclennan.blogspot.com or his Canadian Poet series: peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com or any one of his social media feeds. If you're at all interested in poetry in Canada, you should be following what rob is doing.

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rob mclennan's blog

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As we head up to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we'd like to highlight this fabulous essay collection from John Brady McDonald, Carrying it Forward. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/car...

We're delighted to see a starred review for Elliott Dunstan's breathtaking debut novel Grostesque. You can read the whole review here: quillandquire.com/review/grote... And learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gro...

As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes and the works they subsequently produce. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Just noticing the seasons changing and all the great books coming up. We hope your TBR pile is getting nice and tall.

We're looking forward to bringing out Mark Leslie's sweeping collection of folklore and legends, Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes, this October. It's the perfect read for the season. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gho...

Conor Mc Donnell is up on the Stranger Fiction podcast: www.strangerfiction.ca/conor-mc-don...

Thanks @manahil.bsky.social for including me in this folio for @periodicities.bsky.social about "cut" poems! This poem does appear in the lake-shaped excuse (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), which comes out in just a few weeks! bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...

periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics@periodicities.bsky.social · 7d ago

newly posted : folio : Scrapbook : edited by Manahil Bandukwala / @manahil.bsky.social ; Conyer Clayton : Ellen Chang-Richardson : Grace : Misha Solomon : Dani Spinosa : Jade Wallace : Sanna Wani / @mishasolomon.bsky.social @conyerclayton.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/09/foli...

This great event is only one week away. If you happen to be in Ingersoll, come down to Commonplace Books for a wonderful evening of laughter and writing with these great authors, including our own Brad Smith. You can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...

In Conversation with Humour Writers at Commonplace Books

Hear from some hilarious writers and dive into the funny side of storytelling.

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This is a wonderful discussion to listen to on a Sunday, with Kit Dobson and Ken Wilson talking about Kit's wonderful work of literary nonfiction, Field Notes on Listening: walklistencreate.org/video/listen...

Listening – Kit Dobson in conversation with Ken Wilson – walk · listen · create

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We'll be at Word on the Street Toronto in just one week, sharing Booth #1 with our good friends Book*hug! We hope you can come down and say hi. You can find out all the information you need about WOTS here: toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca

It's Follow Friday time - if you don't already follow All Lit Up, the blog and online storefront of the Literary Press Group, I recommend you do so! Not only do they have a sale going on right now, but there's interviews, articles and all sorts of information about independent publishing in Canada!

All Lit Up@alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 2w ago

All Lit Up is 12! To celebrate we're looking back on a decade-plus of memories and taking 10% off all books until September 22 with promo code ALU12. alllitup.ca/all-lit-up-t...

Ewan Whyte will be taking part in this fascinating lecture in the Walter Rodney Seminar Series at Boston University, you can register to take part online here: bostonu.zoom.us/.../reg.../1....

It's not really a throw back, but this Thursday, and for the next few, we're bringing up an older title that is frankly brilliant. Catherine Graham's Aether will start us off. A long-poem lyric essay, this book defies genres to tell an incredible story. bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/aet...

We've some great new pieces up at House Style, including this fabulous list of books to get excited about from Natasha Ramoutar: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/blog/7-books... Remember House Style is free, but you do need to sign up to access the articles!

Let's hope that more people decide to invest in small press publishing this way. This is lovely news for Melville House: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Melville House to ‘Recapitalize’ with New Partner

Illuminating Media, publisher of the online newspaper CT Examiner and literary journal Majuscule, has become a 50-50 partner with Melville House founders Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians.

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This looks like a great event for these interesting times! Join Brad Smith, the author of Billy Crawford's Double Play along with other great authors at Common Place Books in Ingersoll, on September 28th, 6 to 7:30 pm.

Ottawa friends, we hope you can come out to this fabulous event!

Conyer Clayton@conyerclayton.bsky.social · 2w ago

In exactly 1 month, @sannawani.bsky.social and I are co-launching our books in Ottawa in conversation with bestie @manahil.bsky.social and we would love love love for you to be there! 🌼 Oct 15th, 8 pm, Club Saw, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa 🌱 Presented by the Ottawa International Writers Festival

A wonderful early review for Conyer Clayton's gorgeous collection The Lake-shaped Excuse: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-lake-s...

the lake-shaped excuse by Conyer Clayton

A Review by Micaela Carcamo

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“a book that asks to be experienced as much as interpreted, its language carrying the reader through a future in which memory has become currency and the remnants of humanity are struggling to determine what, and whom, is worth carrying forward.” -S Hailstone www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...

Shana tova to all our friends celebrating today!

Hamilton Friends, here's the full schedule for the Author tent at Supercrawl:

Denise Davy is opening up the HAALSA lecture season with a discussion about her important book Her Name Was Margaret on September 19th at McMaster University. You can lean more about HAALSA, Hamilton's longest running lecture series here: www.haalsa.org

Hamilton Friends, we hope you can join Jason Allen, author of 52 Things to Do In Hamilton and and Meredith McLeod, of Hamilton City Magazine at the Author tent Saturday, September 12 at 4:30 pm to hear learn more about this great city!

We have another great review in for Conor Mc Donnell's fabulous poetry collection What We Know So Far Is... www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...

What We Know So Far Is… — Sara Hailstone

Book review of Conor Mc Donnell’s, “ What we know so far is…”

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This is some lovely news for genre writers in Canada! A new prize, named in honour of Andrew Pyper, that will be awarded to mid-career writers with at least three works under their name. www.writerstrust.com/awards/andre...

We're delighted to see so many wonderful small presses included in this year's Giller Longlist.

@lpgcanada.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congratulations to LPG members whose authors are longlisted for the 2026 Giller Prize! @biblioasis.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social & @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Somehow we missed this lovely review of Natalie Lim's Elegy for Opportunity last June in CV2: contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/eleg...

“Elliott Dunstan’s novel Grotesque is a beautifully crafted, gender fluid tale of outcasts and arcane power, old gods and hidden tunnels, monstrous inhumanity and startling tenderness.” — K.R. Wilson Learn more: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gro... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #queerlit