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✨ Don't forget to get yourself 50% off all of our eBooks site wide through the holidays and into the new year!

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December 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Happy Holidays! From NeWest Press, our office, and team of volunteer readers, editors, and board members. We are so proud to be a part of the Canadian literary community and can't wait to get into all the books still to come in 2026!
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December 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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✨ Bought all your gifts for everyone else and now need a little something for yourself? Get 50% off all of our eBooks site wide through the holidays and into the new year!

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December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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✨ We're so proud to see this fabulous collection by @jidesalawu.bsky.social featured in @thewalrus.ca!

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Book Cover: Contraband Bodies. Poems. Jide Salawu. A closeup photograph of a dark skinned man's neck and shoulders and he twists in movement. The photograph is cut into sections and geometrically juxtaposed against itself.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Rich in detail and propelled by vital curiosity, Ghosts in a Photograph is a determined, compelling, and multifaceted family chronicle.

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Book Cover: An abstract take on a vintage photo album with paper in all four corners, holding in the titles, Ghosts in the a Photograph, by Myrna Kostash.
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her partner in a climbing accident while they were ascending Mount Baker, just weeks before Penno was slated to begin medical school.

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Book Cover: Counting Bones, Anatomy of Love Lost and Found, a memoir by Ellen Anderson Penno Cover: Small climbers make their way up a massive blue mountain. The mountain is abstractly drawn. The title and subtitle are labeled by thin red lines with attached letters similar to a medical text book. The entire cover is labeled as fig 1.
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Another review for the incomparable @carissahalton and Revolution Songs! Have you got your copy yet? Perfect stocking stuff for that book lover in your life!

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Book Cover: Revolution Songs by Carissa Halton. A stylized black and white mountains with a solid red sky and yellow text. Silhouettes of ravens circle.
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Shifting Gears is an expertly-delivered travelogue and a thrilling glimpse into a world of athletes driven to impossible lengths.

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December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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We are so excited to see this fantastic debut novel from @carissahalton reviewed in this months @albertaviews! Make sure to get your copy (of the magazine and the book!)

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Book Cover: Revolution Songs by Carissa Halton. A stylized black and white mountains with a solid red sky and yellow text. Silhouettes of ravens circle.
December 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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One of the best Canadian Poetry books of 2025? We couldn't agree more!

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Book Cover: All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rain by Sarain Frank Soonias. The background is blue-grey with white diagonal raindrops running from the top right, then turning into red flames at the bottom. The title and author name are hand-written at a matching angle.
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Cobra Clutch is a fast-paced, hard-hitting debut novel by @ajdevlinauthor that features an unstoppable combo: a signature move of raucous humour with a super finisher of gritty realism.

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Book Cover: Bright yellow cover shows a stylized snake tail wrapping around the book as two wrestlers battle in the bottom left-hand corner, one has the other in a headlock.
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Sarain Frank Soonias makes his poetic debut with a splash that ripples far outside his own work, and marks the entrance of a new, important voice in contemporary poetry.

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Book Cover: All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rain by Sarain Frank Soonias. The background is blue-grey with white diagonal raindrops running from the top right, then turning into red flames at the bottom. The title and author name are hand-written at a matching angle.
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake.”

In this fantastic and fantastical debut, @cjlavigne.com concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons.

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Book Cover: In Veritas by C.J. Lavigne. Profile of a black dog with feathers. Gold titles.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Revolution Songs is the electrifying debut novel by award-winning writer @carissahalton.bsky.social inspired by the little-known story of a Communist union, the rise of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan, and the women who fought on both sides.

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Book Cover: Revolution Songs by Carissa Halton. A stylized black and white mountains with a solid red sky and yellow text. Silhouettes of ravens circle.
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Randy Nikkel Schroeder combines coked-up magic realism with wound-up cyberpunk style.

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Book Cover: Arctic Smoke by Randy Nikkel Shroeder. On a background of an ice-covered map, magazine letters are cut out to create a title.
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Frances Peck's debut novel examines the unpredictable ways in which disaster can shake up lives and test personal resilience.

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Book Cover: The Broken Places by Frances Peck. Murky green ocean waves sit against a dense orange sky. The Vancouver skyline is just visible in the background.
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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@matthewjtetreault.bsky.social debut novel shines with a poignant, but playful character-driven meditation on the struggles of holding onto “la langue,” and marks the emergence of an important new voice.

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Book Cover: On a salmon pink background, a rainbow road moves across the page behind a circular cutout of sky in the centre. A toy bison sits in the centre of that circle of sky.
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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@sjonespoet.bsky.social puts obsessive-compulsive disorder centre stage. Attic Rain is an ongoing act of resilience and an honest account of moving through a world obsessed with normality.

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Book Cover: Attic Rain. Poems by Samantha Jones. Raindrops run gently down a sky blue background, while a grid of bright yellow smiley faces sit on the left-hand side of the cover, various expressions on their faces, repeating across the rows.
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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First published in 1995, Thomas Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape.

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Book Cover: On a deep blue background, dark blue glacial ice cascades down the page alongside titles of the same colour. Icefields, by Thomas Wharton
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Wondering what to get the book lover on your list this year? Is that book lover you? Watch out for something that peaks your interest over the next 12 days, we've got a bit of everything! ❄️ ❄️

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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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🦉 ❄️ We're here! Where are you? ODD BIRD WINTER FAIR November 28-30!

Friday, November 28: 5pm to 9pm
Saturday, November 29: 10am to 5pm
Sunday, November 30: 10am to 4pm

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Odd Bird Winter Fair. 2 weekends to shop! Nov 28-30 and dec 5-7. Fri: 5-9pm. Sat: 10am-5pm. Sun: 10am-4pm. At the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre. 8426 Gateway Boulevard NW, Edmonton AB
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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🎉 Introducing our new General Manager! As of December 1, 2025 Fawnda Mithrush will be joining our team and we are so excited for this new chapter of NeWest Press! We can't wait to see everything that Fawnda brings to our longstanding tradition of literary excellent.

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Meet a new General Manager Fawnda Mithrush. A headshot of a light-skinned woman with blond hair smiling at the camera. Fawnda Mithrush brings over fifteen years of experience in Edmonton’s media, arts, and nonprofit sectors. In addition to her role as executive director of LitFest, she has served as general manager for Theatre Network and the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, and has overseen development projects for the Edmonton Fringe Festival, Explore Edmonton, and the Alberta Podcast Network. Achievements include accolades from the International Association of Business Communicators, Edify’s Top 40 Under 40, the Canadian Online Publishing Awards in podcasting, and inclusion in Business / Arts Association's 2024 Emerging Leaders cohort. As of December 2025, she is excited to pursue new adventures in the literary sector as general manager of NeWest Press.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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✨ We are so excited to finally have a FULLY ACCESSIBLE EBOOK version of the essential Edmonton and Albertan history, Cruising the Downtown: Celebrating Edmonton's Queer History.

Available now on our website, or wherever eBooks are sold!

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Book Cover: Cruising the Downtown: Celebrating Edmonton's Queer History. On a lavender background, a rainbow of colours, including all colours in the progress flag, curves down in the shape of the North Saskatchewan River over a vintage photograph.
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🦉 ❄️ Stop by and say at the ODD BIRD WINTER FAIR November 28-30! NeWest will be there with some of our favourite winter titles, surrounded by amazing local venders and some sort of sweet treat. What better way to spend the day?

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Odd Bird Winter Fair. 2 weekends to shop! Nov 28-30 and dec 5-7. Fri: 5-9pm. Sat: 10am-5pm. Sun: 10am-4pm. At the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre. 8426 Gateway Boulevard NW, Edmonton AB
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM