My new book of poems is officially available for ordering. Highly recommend ordering through @palimpsestpress.bsky.social (link below) or ordering through your local independent bookstore, but it's available at indigo or amazon if needed. #booksky #poetry #canlit palimpsestpress.ca/books/half-e...
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ICYMI: CBC producer Daphné Santos-Vieira spotlighted Jaime Forsythe’s beautiful long poem, Yield on The Next Chapter with the excellent Antonio Michael Downing.
Yield is an unforgettable long poem that lingers in the postpartum void.
Full episode:
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💫 Coming soon! 💫 The Library Cosmic: Stories by Benjamin Berman Ghan, forthcoming with Wolsak & Wynn, May 26, 2026
DM us to request a review copy—just in time for National Short Story Month in May!
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@anncavlovic.bsky.social 's novel Count On Me is important, and receiving excellent reviews! Few writers explore family fractures that occur when parents are frail. Fewer take on the devastating subject of elder abuse. Podcast coming soon. #elderabuse #books #reading
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“I don’t know if it’s that I like the idea of writing every genre as much as it feels like a natural choice. Like how sometimes you feel like walking somewhere and sometimes you need to run.”
—Me! boydwords.wordpress.com
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Congratulations to award-winning author Brad Smith, whose wise-cracking and fast-paced novel, Billy Crawford’s Double Play (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025), is longlisted for the 2026 Leacock Medal for Humour! 🏅
Read the full story:
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Congratulations to all the longlisted authors!
Yaaaaassssss!
***NEW EPISODE!***
Amanda Fields & Tiffanie Drayton talk w Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse!
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We're excited to release a podcast episode with this phenomenal writer soon!
ICYMI: Whitney French was recently interviewed by Shawn Conner in The Vancouver Sun about her phenomenal novel-in-verse, Syncopation (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026). 💜
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I was on @globalnews.ca discussing my book, identity and the value of Sikh Heritage Month: globalnews.ca/video/117980...
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Read “Fernaldia pandurata and Diabrotica adelpha get symbiotic in Christie Pits” from Tinder Sonnets © 2026 by Jennifer LoveGrove, on our blog:
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Get a load of this CanLit goodness! 💫
Thank you to Wendy J. Fox and Electric Lit for including two of the awesome books we’ve been celebrating on their list of 15 Must-Read Small Press Books of Spring 2026!
Read the full list: ⚡️
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“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)
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@junctionreads.bsky.social’s is also on the list!
Seeing The Peace Thieves on the #GillerPrize Craving #CanLit list is a genuine buzz (and what heady company to keep!). Check it out! gillerprize.ca/2026-craving... @thistledownpress.bsky.social @hollay.bsky.social
Hamilton friends, this great gritLIT event featuring our own Saad Omar Khan, along with other wonderful writers, is coming up on Saturday the 18th. We hope you can come out! You can register for tickets here:
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Beloved Nova Scotia poet Jaime Forsythe was on CTV Your Morning Atlantic this morning to talk about her new book of poetry, Yield (Wolsak & Wynn, April 2026).
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✨Coming soon!✨ Half Earth by Blair Trewartha, forthcoming with Palimpsest Press, May 15, 2026.
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Sasha Yurchenko recommends The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social in this great round-up of Canadian poetry collections to add to your TBR this Poetry Month for @booktrib.bsky.social.
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Read 2 poems from Maria Giesbrecht's forthcoming collection, A Little Feral.
Thanks to @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @selenamercuri.bsky.social
#NationalPoetryMonth spotlight: Calgary’s Governor General Award-winning poet, Richard Harrison!
Richard’s breathtaking new collection, My Mother Joins the Resistance, will be released by Wolsak & Wynn, April 14, 2026.
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*Published in 2025 not 2025.
NEW EXCERPT from Tea Gerbeza’s acclaimed poetry, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2024)!
Visit our blog to experience the full excerpt:
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Thank you @hollay.bsky.social #NationalPoetryMonth #ThisIsWhereIGetOff
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