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Open Book is your connection to Ontario's vibrant literary scene. Posts via Kevin, Holly, and Sarah. Visit our website to learn more: https://open-book.ca/
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Read an Excerpt from HIDE AND SIKH: LETTERS FROM LIFE A LIFE IN BROWN SKIN (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), the New Memoir from Sunny Dhillon!
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Read an Excerpt from HIDE AND SIKH, the New Memoir from Sunny Dhillon
After leaving his job at The Globe and Mail in 2018, Sunny Dhillon published a blog post explaining his decision. It struck a nerve, circulating widely ...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Read an excerpt from THE ALPHABET OF ALIENS (@mawenzihouse.bsky.social), the exciting new poetry collection from Sabyasachi Nag. We've got some excerpted poems right here on Open Book!
#AmReading #Poetry #Verse #CanLit
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Read an Excerpt from THE ALPHABET OF ALIENS, the Exciting New Poetry Collection from Sabyasachi Nag
The exciting new collection of prose poems from Sabyasachi Nag moves through the unsettled spaces of migration, belonging, and in-between states. Drawing ...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Acclaimed playwright Christine Quintana's AS ABOVE (@playcanpress.bsky.social) finds connection in unexpected places. Check out our Behind the Curtain interview right here!
#AmReading #Drama #Plays #Playwrights
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Christine Quintana's AS ABOVE Finds Connection in Unexpected Places
In our featured title today, As Above (Playwrights Canada Press) A woman in recovery tries to rebuild a life shaped by loss, regret, and long-held silence. ...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Read an excerpt from CAN POSTERS KILL? (@secondstory.bsky.social), a crucial work of nonfiction by Jerry Faivish (with Kathryn Cole).
#AmReading #History #Culture #Nonfiction
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Read an Excerpt from CAN POSTERS KILL? by Jerry Faivish (with Kathryn Cole)
Propaganda shapes people’s beliefs in ways that are often hard to see until long after the damage is done. The featured book today, Can Posters Kill? (Second ...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Writer and educator Susan Currie connects the profoundly personal with crucial Indigenous history in CAYUGA NATION (Beech Street Books/Saunders Book Company). Check out this fascinating interview with the author right here!
#AmReading #Nonfiction #Indigenous #History
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Susan Currie Connects the Profoundly Personal with Crucial Indigenous History in CAYUGA NATION
What happens when a deeply personal discovery becomes the inspiration for a children's book that reaches beyond individual memory and touches on collective ...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Celebrated poet Ronna Bloom breathes life into the poignant verse of IN A RIPTIDE (Brick Books). Check out this Poets in Profile interview with the author!
#AmReading #Poetry #CanLit #Verse
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Celebrated Poet Ronna Bloom Breathes Life into the Poignant Verse of IN A RIPTIDE
In a brand new collection of poetry, Ronna Bloom brings her singular wit and emotional acuity to bear in every word and line. In a Riptide (Brick Books) thrives ...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Check out this fascinating KidLit Convo between Deborah Kerbel and Tine Modeweg-Hansen, the author and illustrator of COMMUNITY SNOWMAN (@groundwoodbooks.bsky.social).
#AmReading #PictureBooks #CanLit #Interviews
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KidLit Convos Featuring Deborah Kerbel and Tine Modeweg-Hansen, Author and Illustrator of COMMUNITY SNOWMAN
In our featured title today, Community Snowman (Groundwood Books), one particularly snowy morning sparks an unexpected chain of kindness as one girl’s ...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Ink & Imagination! An Open Book author & illustrator dialogue with Lisa Frenette & August Swinson, creators of THE WANDERING FEATHER (@owlkids.bsky.social).
#AmReading #Interviews #PictureBooks
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Ink & Imagination – Open Book Author & Illustrator Dialogues with Lisa Frenette & August Swinson
in the vibrant and wonderful debut picture book from Lisa Frenette and illustrator August Swinson, a feather sets off on an unexpected journey after ...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Check out the latest and greatest column from Manahil Bandukwala (@manahil.bsky.social), where she talks about tropes in writing and when to embrace them!
#AmReading #AmWriting #WritingTips #CanLit
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Embracing Tropes
A lot of my summer reading list involved beachy romance novels like Leanne Toshiko Simpson’s Never Been Better and Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After, ...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Charlie Petch's INFINITE AUDITION (Brick Books) is an unpredictable, theatrical poetic tour de force. Check out our interview with the author right here!
#AmReading #Poetry #CanLit #Verse
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Charlie Petch's INFINITE AUDITION is an Unpredictable, Theatrical Poetic Tour de Force
Our featured title today comes from Charlie Petch, a celebrated artist who explores transmasculine and disabled perspectives in their writing. Their work ...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Read an excerpt from the enthralling new short story collection, PLANET EARTH (@houseofanansi.bsky.social), by Nicholas Ruddock. It's right here and free for our Open Book readers!
#AmReading #ShortStories #Fiction #CanLit
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Read an Excerpt from PLANET EARTH, the New Short Story Collection from Nicholas Ruddock
Today we're featuring a vibrant new short story collection that captures a wild mix of tenderness, humour, and flawed humanity, all of which stands out ...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Sadiqa de Meijer Searches for true meaning and connection in the essays of IN THE FIELD (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social). Check out our interview with the Governor General Award winning author right here!
#AmReading #Essays #Nonfiction #CanLit
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Sadiqa de Meijer Searches for True Meaning and Connection in the Essays of IN THE FIELD
Governor General’s Award winner Sadiqa de Meijer returns with a thoughtful and beautifully composed collection of essays that invites readers to look ...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Looking for Ontario-based publishers that do it all? From fiction, to non-fiction, to poetry, to drama, we've got you covered! 📚🇨🇦

Part 4 of 4!

➡️ Featuring: @palimpsestpress.bsky.social, Plumleaf Press, The Porcupine's Quill, Brucedale Press, and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Seven major prizes and more than $375,000 have been awarded at an inspiring 2025 Writers’ Trust (Writers' Trust of Canada) celebration! Check out our coverage with all of last night's amazing winners!
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Seven Major Prizes and More Than $375,000 Awarded at an Inspiring Writers’ Trust Celebration
The annual Writers’ Trust Awards lit up Toronto this week with a full evening of literary celebration. With seven major prizes presented and more than ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The captivating thriller EARWORM (@playcanpress.bsky.social) by Mohammad Yaghoubi chronicles a young woman's battle against cppression. Check out this Behind the Curtain interview with the author!
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The Captivating Thriller EARWORM Chronicles a Young Woman's Battle Against Oppression
In his spectacular new play, Earworm (Playwrights Canada Press), Mohammad Yaghoubi delivers a haunting and deeply human story about memory, trauma, ...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Quill Christie-Peters discussion her incredible new work of non-fiction, ON WHOLENESS (@houseofanansi.bsky.social), and the power of collective liberation. Check it our interview with the author here!
#AmReading #Nonfiction #Indigenous #Writing
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Quill Christie-Peters Discusses ON WHOLENESS and Writing Toward Collective Liberation
In a dazzling new work of nonfiction, Quill Christie-Peters explores what it means to live fully engaged with our bodies, our ancestors, and the world ...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Read an excerpt from the long awaited third volume in the Ojibwe History series, THE POWER OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social), from Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch. Check it out here on OB!
#AmReading #Excerpts #Indigenous #Stories
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Read an Excerpt from THE POWER OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE by Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch
In the long-awaited third entry in Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch’s Ojibwe History series, The Power of the Little People (Kegedonce Press) brings readers ...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Read an excerpted story from BIG OF YOU (@biblioasis.bsky.social), the fantastic new short fiction collection from Elise Levine!
#AmReading #ShortStory #CanLit #Fiction
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Read an Excerpt from the New Short Story Collection by Celebrated Author Elise Levine
The latest collection of short fiction by Elise Levine is a masterclass from an author that has few equals in the form. Across nine unforgettable stories ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Check out this interview with debut novelist Sierra Marilyn Riley on THE DARK COVE THEATRE SOCIETY (Annick Press) and writing queer theatre magic for teens!
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Sierra Marilyn Riley on Her Debut Novel and Writing Queer Theatre Magic for Teens
Tense, atmospheric, and irresistibly dramatic, The Dark Cove Theatre Society by Sierra Marilyn Riley pulls back the velvet curtain on ambition and the ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Read an excerpt from EDISSON AND JEREMIAH (Guernica Editions), the new novel by acclaimed author Michael Carin. It's free for our readers right now on Open Book!
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Read an Excerpt from Edisson and Jeremiah by Michael Carin
The latest novel from renowned author and political theorist Michael Carin is a dazzling story of reinvention, faith, and illusion. Edisson and Jeremiah (Guernica ...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Award-winning author Emily A. Weedon's new novel, HEMO SAPIENS (@dundurnpress.bsky.social), is a tantalizing, bloodthirsty thriller. Find out more in this Storytellers Interview with the author!
#AmReading #Novel #CanLit #Thriller
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Emily A. Weedon's New Novel is a Tantalizing, Bloodthirsty Thriller
In award-winning author Emily A. Weedon's thrilling new novel, readers are pulled into a sleek and unsettling world where desire, danger, and the supernatural ...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Columnist Samantha Garner (@samanthakgarner.bsky.social) talks about the best ways to create a space where you can write and flex all of your best artistic muscles. Check it out right here on Open Book!
#AmReading #CanLit #WritingLife #WritingTips
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Creating a Writing Space That Inspires Your Imagination
I’m not one for a set writing routine, but finding other ways to be consistent has helped me feel more connected to my practice and my creativity. My ...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Our grant writing guru Lindsay Zier-Vogel is back with a timely and bafflement-relieving guide to the new Canada Council granting portal! Check out her wise takes on how to navigate the system right here!
#AmReading #Grants #CanLit #WritingTips
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Grant Writing 101: The New Canada Council Portal
The Canada Council for the Arts has a new portal and truth be told, it’s going to take us all a while to get used to it, but I’ve gathered up all ...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This past week Open Book took a run at TIFA 2025, which has newly relocated to the University of Toronto's majestic Victoria College. It was an enlightening and lively few days, and we share our experiences right here!
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Open Book Takes in TIFA 2025 at Victoria College in the University of Toronto
From October 29th to November 2nd, the Toronto International Festival of Authors took place with an adjusted format and a brand new location at University ...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Read an excerpt from the award-winning novel HAPPINESS HAS A SLIPPERY TAIL (University of Ottawa Press) by Abla Farhoud (translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth), with an addendum about the author. Check it out here!
#AmReading #Novel #Translation #CanLit
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Read an Excerpt from HAPPINESS HAS A SLIPPERY TAIL by Abla Farhoud (translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth)
In Happiness Has a Slippery Tail, celebrated Lebanese-Canadian writer Abla Farhoud offers a moving portrait of migration, memory, and resilience through ...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM