LIBRARIES ARE FOR EVERYONE
“beautiful, intriguing, and world expanding” is how Gary Barwin describes THE LIBRARY COSMIC, Which is coming this spring from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
Pre-order your copy today!
bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
A fascinating discussion between Kyle Flemmer and Kim Mannix is up at On Creative Writing:
www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...
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
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)
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...
A wonderful reflection on the state of books and magazines in France from the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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:
Would you read "Proof I Was Here" by Becky Blake?
Order now through the Wolsak and Wynn online store!
#Reading #HamOnt #HamOntArts #BookRecommendations #IndiePublishing
A wonderful round up from River Street Writing for International Women's Month.
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...
✨ 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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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.
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-...
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
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)
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...
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
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.
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
We're delighted to have this excerpt from Klyde Broox's long awaited last work up on Open Book:
That's wonderful to hear!
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
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
A poem by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social author Ayomide Bayowa to start your week!
poets.ca/fuckery-by-a...
We're delighted to see Jaime Forsythe's gorgeous collection Yield on the MER Bookshelf:
merliterary.com/2026/02/21/m...
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
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)
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
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
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
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