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A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals! Est. 2010.
Family Rooms, by Dr. Jennifer Wilson and Dr. Carlye Jensen, published by Piquant Press. Request an ARC: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Dr. Jennifer Wilson and Dr. Carlye Jensen recount dramatic, comic, & quietly devastating moments from decades of practice in their community & beyond.
A review of Christine Fisher Guy’s The Instrument Must Not Matter in the National Post! nationalpost.com/entertainmen... #bookreview #canlit #piano @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
💫COMING SOON! 💫 Over the Lights and Over the Houses by Tom Halford, forthcoming with Gordon Hill Press, September 1, 2026. Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-street-reads #newfoundlandartist #canlit #ireadcanadian #bookishcanadians #litfic
Feast your beautiful bookish peepers on the spread of reads we’ve been celebrating on the 49th Shelf’s most anticipated fall fiction list. Request a review copy of any of these books: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... 1/2 #fallreads #canlit #books
Briar’s Reviews calls Blood Bound: Unlacing Secret Ties by Marie-Josée Poisson,(translated by Flora-Lee Bendit) “[a] deeply engaging look at Canadian/French history.” Read the full review: briarsreviews.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/b... @guernicaeditions.bsky.social #bookreview
Coming soon! 💫 One Soft Infested Summer by Matthew Heiti, forthcoming September 2026 with Latitude 46. Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... store.latitude46publishing.com/products/one... ☀️ @latitude46pub.bsky.social #summerreads #thegoonies #mustread
Minimalist poetry at its finest!✨ Check out our interview with poet Anna Veprinksa about her book, Wound Archive (Gordon Hill Press/The Porcupine’s Quill, 2026) on our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/... @annaveprinska.bsky.social #invisibleillness #poetry
“Short story writers must get to the emotional core of a story quickly, showing the reader what’s at stake, unresolved or troubling. […] Alison Gadsby succeeds in getting to the heart of the matter.“ —Brian Tanguay, California Review of Books Read the full review: calirb.com/breathing-is...
If you are curious about the topic of money in the 2020s, or interested in reading books that make us reconsider what wealth means, read our intern Michael Schmidt’s column: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/6/... #wealth #economics #bookstagram #bookishcanadians #booksbooksbooks
💫Coming soon! 💫The Comedian’s Book of the Dead by Gary Barwin, forthcoming September 22, 2026 with Book*hug Press. Request review or media copies here: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @garybarwin.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social #canlit #litfic #bookstagram #ireadcanadian
Alex Boyd’s essay collection, Take This for the Pain (Palimpsest Press, 2026), received a brilliant review in Hippocampus Magazine by writer, scholar, and narrative medicine leader Renée K. Nicholson. Read full review: www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/revi... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Coming soon! Hail Mary by Elizabeth Urso (Rising Action) forthcoming September 22, 2026. Love a good thriller? Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Welcome to North Shore Township, where you can never dig a grave too deep, and you can never keep a secret for too long.
Coming soon! 💫 Closing Ceremonies and Dying Times by Darlene Madott, forthcoming with Guernica Editions, September 1, 2026. Request a review or media copy here: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... This is a collection of linked love stories that explores the aftermath of love. #litfic
Coming soon 💫 Two Days in Mayaro — the new collection of short stories by acclaimed author Pamela Mordecai, forthcoming September 8, 2026 with Goose Lane Editions. Request a review copy! www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @gooselane.bsky.social #shortstories
“Toronto author Christine Fischer Guy doesn’t miss a beat[.]” -Catherine Parnell, MicroLit Read the rest this excellent review of The Instrument Does Not Matter by Christine Fischer Guy, (Wolsak & Wynn) www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm... 🎹 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #litfic
“‘A running theme throughout the sections is this kind of anxiety about how we pass things on to our kids. I think a lot of it tackles, how do we answer to them?’ he said.” Read the full interview: tr.ee/ktE6Qz1E_g #poetrycollection #fathersday #fathering #poetry #poet
Coming this fall! My Love is a Durian by Kelly Kaur, University of Calgary Press, October 15, 2026. DM us to request a review copy! In My Love is a Durian, Singapore and Canada twine and intertwine, the places adopted and left behind bunch and twist. #poetry
Take a peek at the launch of Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life by Alex Boyd, released with Palimpsest Press. Big love to Another Story Bookshop in Toronto for hosting! Learn more: palimpsestpress.ca/books/take-t... 🫶🏼 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #nonfiction
“Tidelight’s bloom. To be eaten at sunrise.” The instructions hissed through his mind. “Before it opens.” —from Not All Dragons by David Ly (Wolsak & Wynn) Read the full excerpt on our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #dragon #fantasyliterature
“I was able to hear the actual birdsong the poets talk about.” In Ep. 29 of the Happy Hearing Podcast, Dr Rosette Ruth Aguilar and hearing loss health advocate Carly Sygrove are joined by award-winning author of In the Bear’s House, Bruce Hunter. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/h... #hearingloss
Reviewer Shirin E. describes Crystal AJ Smith’s novel Gitwaałtk (Gordon Hill/The Porcupine’s Quill) as “a raw, beautiful, and eye-opening exploration of the harsh reality lived by countless yet unknown missing & murdered girls and women, and their families.” fully-booked.ca/reviews/gitw... #mmiwg
In a recent Power Q & A, we asked novelist Ellis Scott about his book, Night Terminus (Dundurn Press, February 2026) — an evocative story reflecting the determination and resilience of a gay diaspora as it faced extinction. Read the feature: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/5/... #queerlit
Fully-Booked reviewer Shirin E. wrote an excellent review of Alison Gadsby’s electrifying short stories, Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions, 2026). Shirin, you had us at “twisted version of Chicken Soup For The Soul.” Read the full review: fully-booked.ca/reviews/brea...
Shout out to the Calgary #poet Anna Veprinska, pictured here at a recent event in Winnipeg, where she read from her beautifully distilled book, Wound Archive, (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2026). Grab a copy of Wound Archive from wherever books are bought or borrowed. ghp-pql.com/products/wou...
German author Elina Penner will be appearing at Flying Books on College Street in Toronto this evening to launch her newly released translated novel, Nightberries! In anticipation of the event, we’re sharing this NBN episode with Elina, hosted Hollay Ghadery. newbooksnetwork.com/nightberries
Join us in wishing award-winning Canadian author Brent van Staalduinen and his new novel, THE PEACE THIEVES (Thistledown Press) a happy publication day! thistledownpress.com/product/the-... Brent is pictured here with author Chris Farias in CHCH studio this morning!
Acclaimed Windsor-area author André Narbonne was recently featured in The Windsor Star. In the column, he talks about his new #historicalfiction, Those Are Pearls (Palimpsest Press, June 15, 2026). Shout to journalist Pascal Hogue for the excellent reporting! Read the article: tr.ee/EyuMz6Tocp
Thank you to Nolan Kehler and Classical 107 FM for the wonderful feature of Christine and her new novel, The Instrument Must Not Matter! Read the full article: tr.ee/ZTd1Oe6YbY @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #piano #classicalmusic #ireadcanadian #pianomusic #books
Big love to Heather Campbell, the intrepid publisher of Northern Ontario’s Latitude 46 Publishing! Heather has been named one of Sudbury’s most influential artists by Sudbury Arts Council. Read the full column: tr.ee/7O7hnxleLH @latitude46pub.bsky.social #books #canadianliterature