Canadian Publishers Condemn Alberta’s Proposed Restrictions on Public Library Materials - Association of Canadian Publishers

Canadian publishers strongly condemn the proposed book restrictions in @albertagov.bsky.social's Bill 28, which undermine the core principles of public libraries: open access to information, intellectual freedom, & trust in professional expertise. publishers.ca/statement-al... @lpgcanada.bsky.social

I love that Will Forte could literally do anything and he chooses to make indie Irish films about ghosts and satanic spells. Extra Ordinary was delightful.

The man has barely aged (I was around 13 too. French grade school? )

Thank you SO MUCH @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social!

“A feat of imagination and execution.”

— Wendy J. Fox, Electric Lit

Thank you Wendy & Electric Lit for the spotlight on, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026)

Read Wendy’s full column:
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@junctionreads.bsky.social’s is also on the list!

Feast your beautiful peepers on the amazing authors with whom I share this Ms. Magazine spotlight!

Thank you so much to Karla Strand for including me in last month’s Reads for the Rest of Us column.

Read the full list:

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In this NBN episode, I speak with poet David Martin about his breathtaking new collection, nightstead (Palimpsest Press, 2026).

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In his most personal collection to date, award-winning poet David elegizes his younger brother who died by suicide at the age of 23.

Today and everyday, we are celebrating phenomenal women’s literature.

🫶🏼 Join our community of reviewers (and score complementary copies of books!): www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...

#internationalwomensmonth

“Beautifully told with her trademark use of evocative and poetic language, Ghadery challenges readers to ponder the complexity of recognition and what it means to be seen.”

—Lucy E.M. Black, The Miramichi Reader

Read the full review:

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#queerlit

A collage graphic featuring the six featured books in the All Lit Up 2026 spring preview: Nightberries, Welcome to Sunny Town, Super Castle Fun Park, Saudade, and Bad Advice.

Our Spring Preview is out!

Check out some of the books we're excited to read this season: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...

I am swooning with gratitude for this incredible review of my novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which was just released by Palimpsest Press. You can read the full review at TNQ.ca.

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♥️

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#litfic #bookreview

How lucky am I? In this NBN episode, award-winning and celebrated novelist Farzana Doctor interviews me about my novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which was released by Palimpsest Press on February 15, 2026.

Listen to the conversation:

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#litfic

Book cover with grey hand puppet with green button eye, yellow curly hair with red tongue sticking out. On burgundy background.

The Unravelling of Ou, narrator is a hand puppet!

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Reminds me of the GGs. I was “just the publisher” to anyone who asked lol we’re neither of us good in the spotlight!

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

“One of the novel’s most powerful aspects is that it rejects the idea that survival must end in triumph, suggesting instead that it’s about identity shaped by life’s struggles.”
—Olivia Zimberoff, The Independent Book Review

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#bookreview

If I could see Cora now
I’d see the winding sky has shrunk her,
but we would watch the damp
vectors of mountains.

—from “Sun Gone” by Mallory Tater

Read the full excerpt on our blog at www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/12....

#poetry

@palimpsestpress.bsky.social

A photo of Hollay Ghadery with an inset photo of her book The Unravelling of Ou. She is a woman with dark hair and bangs. She is smiling while a grey sock puppet with yellow yarn hair is being pressed against her cheek. She wears turquoise drop earrings and a black off-the-shoulder top.

We interviewed Hollay Ghadery about her novel THE UNRAVELLING OF OU (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social), a coming-of-age story about an Iranian-Canadian woman filtered through an unforgettable sock puppet. The book explores exile, queerness, & motherhood in beautiful prose.

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Oodles of gratitude to Chris Reed and The Seaboard Review of Books for this lovely review of my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, February 15, 2026).

Read the full review: ♥️

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We had a great time at our first @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social SUPER CONFERENCE this past Friday in TO! It's fun to give away free copies of your books to librarian-strangers in a 20-minute frenzy of chatting & signing. Many thanks to our publisher @palimpsestpress.bsky.social for sending us.

Quill & Quire's Spring Preview this week features short fiction, graphic novels, and poetry, from Michael Ondaatje, Mark Anthony Jarman, Michael DeForge and more: https://bit.ly/3NwOCgx

“I can’t remember exactly when or how, but one day a sweet and slightly squeaky-voiced sock puppet meandered into my head and didn’t leave. And didn’t shut up.”

Thank you to Open Book for this interview with me about my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press).

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Woot woot! Yay Tolu!

Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently on CBC’s Unreserved to talk with host Rosanna Deerchild about Melissa’s new poetry collection, A Bow Forged from Ash (Palimpsest Press, 2025).

Listen to the conversation!
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#poetry

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Read an excerpt from my new novel, The Unravelling of Ou, published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social.

Thank you, @civilianreader.com!

Thank you The Quill & Quire and to Stacey May Fowles for the review of my debut novel!

“The Unravelling of Ou is a tender, generous story about the sometimes strange and unsanctioned ways we cope with what we’ve been dealt [.]”
—Stacey May Fowles

Read more:
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We’re excited to share that #THEUNRAVELLINGOFOU by @hollay.bsky.social, a graduate of the Guelph MFA, is now available for preorder and will be published on February 15, 2026 with Palimpsest Press. 📚✨

Book cover design for “Half-Earth” poetry collection by Blair Trewartha. Image of a floating between tree stumps with hand drawn trees.

Next full length poetry collection coming this Spring with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Ellie Hastings for the incredible cover design, and @aimeeddunn.bsky.social and Jim Johnstone for providing the perfect home for my next book. #canlit, #poetry

Thank you to Catherine Whitnall for the interview and interest in my forthcoming novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which will be released February 2026 by Palimpsest Press.

You can read the full interview in the Peterborough Examiner.

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