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A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.

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Feeling speculative? “Imagining Imagining” is the cure!

Check out Gary Barwin’s collection of essays. Available for purchase online at the Wolsak and Wynn store. Link in bio!

#Reading #HamOnt #HamOntArts #BookRecommendations #IndiePublishing

08.03.2026 17:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interested in Tim's work? Check out the rest of his accolades and list of published titles on the Our Authors page of the Wolsak & Wynn website.

🔗 www.wolsakandwynn.ca/authors-all/...

Photo credit: Jacqueline Baker

(Alt text: photo of Tim Bowling with short author bio)

06.03.2026 21:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Congratulations to James Cairns and Alexis von Konigslow on being finalists in the Foreword Indies award categories of Essays and Literary Fiction. You can learn more about the awards here: www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...

05.03.2026 18:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

A wonderful reflection on the state of books and magazines in France from the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

05.03.2026 17:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A fabulous round up of our backlist titles put together for All Lit Up by the fabulously well read Hollay Ghadery of River Street Writing:

05.03.2026 16:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Would you read "Proof I Was Here" by Becky Blake?

Order now through the Wolsak and Wynn online store!

#Reading #HamOnt #HamOntArts #BookRecommendations #IndiePublishing

04.03.2026 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A wonderful round up from River Street Writing for International Women's Month.

04.03.2026 15:15 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Conor Mc Donnell’s What We Know So Far Is … Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

We've a fabulous review of Connor Mc Donnell's What We Know So Far Is... up at the Seabord Review:
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/what-we-kn...

03.03.2026 16:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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✨ Coming soon ✨ My Mother Joins the Resistance by Governor General Award winner Richard Harrison, forthcoming April 7, 2026 with Wolsak & Wynn

Request a review copy:

www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...

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02.03.2026 22:59 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A fascinating conversation about style in SFF from Strange Horizons, between Paul Kincaid (who recently reviewed Whitney French's Syncopation), Dawn Mcdonald and Dan Hartland.

03.03.2026 15:24 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.

Enjoy this fabulous interview between Whitney French and Margaret Gallagher of CBC's North by Northwest about Syncopation. It starts with a great short reading from the book:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

02.03.2026 16:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feeling pensive? “In Crisis, On Crisis” is the cure!

Check out James Cairns's essay collection. Available for purchase online at the Wolsak and Wynn store. Link in bio!

#Reading #HamOnt #HamOntArts #BookRecommendations #IndiePublishing

01.03.2026 17:03 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Interested in Peter's work? Check out his collection of short stories along with The Book of Cross series on the Our Authors page of the Wolsak & Wynn website.

🔗 www.wolsakandwynn.ca/authors-all/...

(Alt text: photo of Peter Darbyshire with short author bio)

27.02.2026 21:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Dick Pics” by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. I will post another version tomorrow:) #poetryinvoice
“Dick Pics” by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. I will post another version tomorrow:) #poetryinvoice YouTube video by Isabelle Larose

Josephine is being banned by the Calgary Catholic School Board from reciting this great poem by Sarah Tsiang that deals with the online sexual harassment of young women for the Poetry In Voice contest. Let's all listen to her brilliant reading for Freedom to Read Week
www.youtube.com/shorts/LNY3Y...

27.02.2026 17:32 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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We're part way through Freedom to Read week and we'd like to applaud the efforts of so many librarians across Canada, and particularly in our schools, in their work to help people access the books they need. You can learn more about Freedom to Read week here: www.freedomtoread.ca

26.02.2026 17:01 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Toronto friends, we hope you can all come out to this great poetry event happening on March 11th at Queen Books featuring Conor McDonnell and Paul Vermeersch! Remember that it starts at 6:00 pm.

26.02.2026 15:48 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Festival of Literary Diversity graphic. Festival registration opens March 25 at thefoldcanada.org

Festival of Literary Diversity graphic. Festival registration opens March 25 at thefoldcanada.org

If you're interested, I will be at The Festival of Literary Diversity in May.

I will answer questions like "Who are you?" and "Why are you here?" and "Do you not know how to pronounce Sikh?"

@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @thefoldcanada.bsky.social #canlit #booksky

26.02.2026 01:11 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

We're delighted to have this excerpt from Klyde Broox's long awaited last work up on Open Book:

25.02.2026 18:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's wonderful to hear!

25.02.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Would you read "The Grimoire of Kensington Market" by Lauren B. Davis?

Order now through the Wolsak and Wynn online store!

#Reading #HamOnt #HamOntArts #BookRecommendations #IndiePublishing

25.02.2026 17:04 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Want to know about our upcoming events, workshops, shows, and programs, without relying on the whims of an algorithm? Sign up below and you'll get our news sent directly to your inbox.

in case you hadn't heard, VERSeFest @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social is running two (Ottawa, in-person) poetry workshops: by Toronto poet/editor Paul Vermeersch, and by Calgary poet/performer Sheri-D Wilson; spaces still available! see here for further information: verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

24.02.2026 13:21 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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"Fuckery" by Ayomide Bayowa - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Fuckery" by Ayomide Bayowa.

A poem by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social author Ayomide Bayowa to start your week!

poets.ca/fuckery-by-a...

23.02.2026 16:13 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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MER Bookshelf - February 2026 - MER - Mom Egg Review MER Bookshelf Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley   Preeti Vangani, Fifty Mothers, River River Books, February 2026, poetry Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers weaves narrative and elegy around the figure of ...

We're delighted to see Jaime Forsythe's gorgeous collection Yield on the MER Bookshelf:
merliterary.com/2026/02/21/m...

23.02.2026 15:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feeling inquisitive? “Grandfather of the Treaties” is the cure!

Check out Daniel Coleman’s book. Available for purchase online at the Wolsak and Wynn store. Link in bio!

#Reading #HamOnt #HamOntArts #BookRecommendations #IndiePublishing

22.02.2026 17:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Interested in Catherine's work? Check out the rest of her accolades and list of published titles on the Buckrider Books' Our Author page of the Wolsak & Wynn website.

🔗 www.wolsakandwynn.ca/authors-all/...

Photo Credit: Marion Voysey

(Alt text: photo of Catherine Graham with short author bio)

20.02.2026 21:02 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Marrow Memory with Dr. Nowaczyk With author & geneticist Margaret Nowaczyk . Event starts at March 8, 2026 2:00 PM EDT

Friends in Burlington, we've a wonderful event coming up on March 8th at the Burlington Public Library. You can sign up here:
attend.bpl.on.ca/event/15665201

19.02.2026 19:08 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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DYK: requesting a Canadian book into your local library can financially benefit the author? 📚

It’s true, thanks to the Public Lending Right program, which is a Canada Council for the Arts initiative run by the PLR Commission.

Learn more about PLR:

publiclendingright.ca

#library #canlit

18.02.2026 22:58 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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It's time for another GET LIT! Today we talk to the one and only Jason Allen about his book, 52 Things To Do In Hamilton

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/2s3758vj

@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

19.02.2026 15:03 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Would you read "Following the River" by Lorri Neilson Glenn?

Order now through the Wolsak and Wynn online store!

#Reading #HamOnt #HamOntArts #BookRecommendations #IndiePublishing

18.02.2026 17:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wishing all our friends who celebrate a happy Ramadan!

17.02.2026 21:56 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0