#OBLIVIOUS by #ElaineDewar was recently featured on CBC IDEAS in a powerful conversation about the hidden histories uncovered in Dewar’s final work of investigative nonfiction. 🎙️📚 Listen to the episode here: tinyurl.com/elainedewarcbcideas.

📚✨ #KyoLee’s #ICUTMYTONGUEONABROKENCOUNTRY has been included in CBC Books’ list of “40 Asian Canadian Writers to Have on Your Radar” and highlighted on Instagram as one of “40 Canadian books to read for Asian Heritage Month.” 🔗 Read more: www.cbc.ca/books/40-asi...

🎧🖤 NEW AUDIO DEAL 🖤🎧 Audio rights to R.J. Joseph’s #MYMONSTERSAIN’TLIKEYOURS have sold to Audrey Beatty at Tantor Media by Natasha Mihell at The Rights Factory for world English rights. MY MONSTERS AIN’T LIKE YOURS will be released in paperback this summer from Quill & Crow.

📚✨ SALE ALERT ✨📚 In celebration of the release of book three in #HeatherGraceStewart’s #TimelessLoveChronicles, books one and two are on sale! 💫 THE LOVE LEAP is FREE on Kindle everywhere through tomorrow (May 27) 💫 THE LOVE QUEST is just $0.99 on Kindle in the US and UK through May 29

🏆📚 Congratulations to #KyoLee, whose poetry collection I CUT MY TONGUE ON A BROKEN COUNTRY has been longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets! We’re thrilled to see this collection recognized on this year’s longlist. 🔗 Learn more: poets.ca/longlist-2026/

📚✨ NEW DEAL ✨📚 TriQuarterly Books (Northwestern University Press) editor Megan Stielstra has acquired world English rights to #AlexDiFrancesco’s absurdist novella #THROUGHTHEBOONDOCKSANDBACK! Pitched as a queer retelling of THE ODYSSEY, the novella follows a trans man on a quest for home.

📚✨ #THELOVECURSE by #HeatherGraceStewart is available now! THE LOVE CURSE follows Amelia “Mills” Sutherland and Callum MacDowell as they fight to protect their family in 1646 Scotland while searching for a way home through a mysterious shifting portal. Get your copy: a.co/d/0gWsgwbf

🎄📚 It's time for a... COVER REVEAL!!! Say hello to #NOTANOTHERCHRISTMASMOVIE by #AshleyCowan, coming October 6, 2026 from Alcove Press! Presales are now live for this festive new release. 🎁 Order yours today: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B....

📰📚 #OBLIVIOUS by #ElaineDewar has been reviewed in the #WinnipegFreePress! “This lengthy book serves to memorialize Dewar’s investigative chops. It is an apt final story for a tenacious investigative journalist who dared to open a door of revelation.” Order your copy today: a.co/d/0bfyYgR6

#AlexDiFrancesco is taking #THEGRIEFSHOP on the road! 📚🖤 From the author of #TRANSMUTATION comes a linked collection of speculative stories set in a near-future world where people have become numb to emotion after a cataclysmic event. Don't miss out! Preorder your copy today: a.co/d/0jh9FWbl.

Did you know R.J. Joseph will be joining an incredible horror lineup at the #HaunttheReaders Book Event this summer at the historic and haunted Bube’s Brewery in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania? 🖤📚 Learn more and get your tickets here: www.hauntthereaders.com/authors

🏆 Congratulations to #DilanQadir on being named a 2026 finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers! 📚 This prestigious award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada celebrates outstanding new voices in Canadian literature. 🔗 Learn more: www.writerstrust.com/awards/rbc-b...

📚🏆 Congratulations are in order! #OBLIVIOUS by #ElaineDewar has landed on TWO Canadian bestseller lists! 🌟 Number 6 on the Toronto Star Canadian Non-Fiction list. 🌟 Number 8 on The Globe and Mail's Canadian Non-Fiction list. 📖 Get your copy of OBLIVOUS here: www.amazon.ca/Growing-Up-O...

Congratulations to #CaitlinGalway on being shortlisted for the 2025 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for #ASONGFORWILDCATS! 🐆✨ The winner will be announced in June. 🔗 See the full shortlist here: writersunion.ca/danuta-gleed....

📚✨ OUT NOW ✨📚 #THISISWHYINEEDYOU by #AlecsandraKakon is now available from ECW Press! THIS IS WHY I NEED YOU explores the complicated realities of long-term friendship and what happens when shared history is no longer enough to hold people together. 📖 Get your copy: ecwpress.com/products/thi....

We're thrilled to see #NicoleHackett, author of #MOMBRAIN, featured on the #TamronHallshow! 📺✨ Nicole Hackett recently appeared on the show for a wonderful conversation about her new novel. 🔗 If you missed it, you can watch the segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_g...

Author #JonathanTepper speaks with Foreword about his memoir #SHOOTINGUP. Tepper reflects on his extraordinary upbringing in Madrid’s hardest-hit neighborhoods during the heroin epidemic, as well as the personal experiences that shaped his #memoir. 🔗 Read the interview: tinyurl.com/forewordrevi...

📚 Did You Miss It? 🎙️ On April 27th, Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson joined Toronto Legends to talk about OPPOSITE SULLY’S GYM, the second novel in the Patrick Bird Mystery series. 🎧 Listen now: tinyurl.com/torontolegen...

✨ #NicoleHackett is featured in #WritersDigest with her latest piece: “I Needed a Marketing Machine; It Turned Out to Be My Town’s Facebook Mom Group.” 🔗 Make sure to read the full piece here: www.writersdigest.com/i-needed-a-m...

📰✨ #NicoleHackett is featured in #PureWow. Her latest piece explores the science and lived experience behind “mom brain,” reframing it as something deeper, more complex—and even necessary. Read the full essay here: www.purewow.com/family/mom-b...

🎤📚 Looking to get your work in front of editors and agents? Agent @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social will be participating in the #2026OnlinePittsburghWritingWorkshop (May 8–9), a two-day “How to Get Published” event hosted by Writing Day Workshops. 🔗 Register now: pittsburghwritingworkshop.com

📰📚 An excerpt from #OBLIVIOUS by #ElaineDewar is now live in #TheWalrus! In “How Residential School Students Became Victims of Nazi Race Science,” Dewar uncovers a disturbing and little-known history. 🔗 Read the full piece here: tinyurl.com/obliviousexc...

Literary agent and freelance editor #KatFoxx is joining the #StoryNerd podcast team! 🎙️📚 Kat will appear every other Friday alongside Valerie Francis and Melanie Hill to talk all things publishing. 🎧 Listen here: valeriefrancis.ca/story-nerd

📰📚 #MOMBRAIN by #NicoleHackett has been reviewed in #PublishersWeekly! “Hackett’s skillful plotting and character work will keep readers hooked… This one’s not for the faint of heart.” 🔗 Read the full review: www.publishersweekly.com/9781400350339

🎧📚 The audiobook edition of #SHOOTMEINTHEFACEONABEAUTIFULDAY by Emma E. Murray is out now from Tantor Audio! This gripping, multi-POV novel follows Birdie as she navigates grief, an abusive partner, and the terror of a serial killer stalking her community. www.audible.ca/pd/Shoot-Me-...

📚✨ DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📚 #WHEREYOULEAD by #MelissaGrace—previously self-published as MARJORIE & ME—has been acquired by Hannah K. Smith at Penguin Michael Joseph for publication in September 2026 (UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada). The deal was negotiated by @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social.

📰📚 #NicoleHackett in the #BaltimoreSun discussing her new novel #MOMBRAIN! In the interview, Nicole explores the idea of “mom brain” as a hidden strength, and the inspiration behind her sharp, thought-provoking take on modern motherhood. 🔗 Read the feature: www.baltimoresun.com/2026/04/09/m...

An excerpt from SHOOTING UP by Jonathan Tepper is now featured on Literary Hub! 📰📚 Tepper recounts his childhood in Madrid’s San Blas neighborhood—capturing the raw realities of addiction, community, and survival during the height of the crisis. 🔗 Read the full piece: lithub.com/tales-from-g...

🌍📚 HAPPY EARTH DAY 📚🌍 In its first year, SPEAKING ON CLIMATE by Rune Kier Nielsen has been longlisted for the 2026 Green Earth Book Awards, named to the 2026 Dogwood Nonfiction Reading List, and selected as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. 📖 Get your copy: a.co/d/04umzuRK

📚🔥 #MOMBRAIN by #NicoleHackett is out now from Harper Muse! In this sharp, twisty novel, a struggling mother accepts an invitation to an exclusive retreat in O’ahu promising to “fix” motherhood—only to find herself drawn into something far more unsettling. 📖 Get your copy: a.co/d/0hAlCQbm