Wolsak & Wynn
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.
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"SYNCOPATION is doing a lot to underscore Black histories, Black geographies, and also to highlight ways of telling our tales."
We chat w/ Whitney French about her speculative novel-in-verse SYNCOPATION (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) & how Black futurism informs her work.
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We chat w/ Whitney French about her speculative novel-in-verse SYNCOPATION (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) & how Black futurism informs her work.
alllitup.ca/it-was-poetr...
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"SYNCOPATION is doing a lot to underscore Black histories, Black geographies, and also to highlight ways of telling our tales."
We chat w/ Whitney French about her speculative novel-in-verse SYNCOPATION (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) & how Black futurism informs her work.
alllitup.ca/it-was-poetr...
We chat w/ Whitney French about her speculative novel-in-verse SYNCOPATION (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) & how Black futurism informs her work.
alllitup.ca/it-was-poetr...
Vancouver friends, our double book launch for Katie Welch and Peter Darbyshire is just one week away. We hope you can join us at Cross & Crow Books (2836 Commercial Drive) on November 20th at 7 pm to celebrate!
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Vancouver friends, our double book launch for Katie Welch and Peter Darbyshire is just one week away. We hope you can join us at Cross & Crow Books (2836 Commercial Drive) on November 20th at 7 pm to celebrate!
A wonderful reading of The Book of Interruptions from rob mclennan!
Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, The Book of Interruptions / @dearkestrel.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social ;
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Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, The Book of Interruptions
│││ I can no longer afford humour a spear knocks at my caged heart and the rattles awaken a primal fear. a marble floor, a marble bust...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A wonderful reading of The Book of Interruptions from rob mclennan!
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#NonfictionNovember spotlight with Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding our Future Through the Wampum Covenant by Daniel Coleman. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
This is an essential read for Canadians looking to understand our nation’s complicated history.
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/6/...
This is an essential read for Canadians looking to understand our nation’s complicated history.
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/6/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#NonfictionNovember spotlight with Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding our Future Through the Wampum Covenant by Daniel Coleman. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
This is an essential read for Canadians looking to understand our nation’s complicated history.
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/6/...
This is an essential read for Canadians looking to understand our nation’s complicated history.
www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/6/...
We've a lovely review of Kyle Flemmer's Supergiants up at Sarah Hailstone's blog:
www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...
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Supergiants — Sara Hailstone
Book review of Kyle Flemmer’s, “Supergiants.”
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November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We've a lovely review of Kyle Flemmer's Supergiants up at Sarah Hailstone's blog:
www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...
www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...
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In the latest edition of #UndertheCover, award-winning author Brad Smith reflects on BILLY CRAWFORD’S DOUBLE PLAY (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) where baseball meets politics in a character-driven story about passion, ambition & the love of the game.
Read more at: alllitup.ca/under-the-co...
Read more at: alllitup.ca/under-the-co...
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In the latest edition of #UndertheCover, award-winning author Brad Smith reflects on BILLY CRAWFORD’S DOUBLE PLAY (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) where baseball meets politics in a character-driven story about passion, ambition & the love of the game.
Read more at: alllitup.ca/under-the-co...
Read more at: alllitup.ca/under-the-co...
We'd like to share this excerpt from Armand Garnet Ruffo's The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow for Remembrance Day.
You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We'd like to share this excerpt from Armand Garnet Ruffo's The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow for Remembrance Day.
You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
If you missed Katie Welch on Daybreak Kamloops (or if you don't live in Kamloops) you can catch her wonderful interview here:
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you missed Katie Welch on Daybreak Kamloops (or if you don't live in Kamloops) you can catch her wonderful interview here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Backlist Mondays: Love Despite the Ache by Chris Pannell, winner of the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award. Navigating complex narratives of grief and mortality, Pannell weaves his way though complex and often painful memories in the beautiful collection.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Backlist Mondays: Love Despite the Ache by Chris Pannell, winner of the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award. Navigating complex narratives of grief and mortality, Pannell weaves his way though complex and often painful memories in the beautiful collection.
Waterloo Friends, this great event is coming up at the end of November, and we'd love to see you!
calendar.wpl.ca/event/149464...
calendar.wpl.ca/event/149464...
Author Talk: James Cairns, Tanis MacDonald & Mariam Pirbhai
For Adults
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Waterloo Friends, this great event is coming up at the end of November, and we'd love to see you!
calendar.wpl.ca/event/149464...
calendar.wpl.ca/event/149464...
Toronto friends, just a reminder that this great event is coming up tomorrow! We hope to see you there:
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Wolsak & Wynn Triple Launch: Dhillon, Mc Donell, Mohammadi
Join us for a Wolsak & Wynn Triple Book Launch, with Sunny Dhillon, Conor Mc Donnell, and Khashayar Mohammadi!
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November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Toronto friends, just a reminder that this great event is coming up tomorrow! We hope to see you there:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/wolsak-wyn...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/wolsak-wyn...
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Read. Reading. Will Read. Books on walking. @therealkenwilson.bsky.social @shawnmicallef.bsky.social @laurenelkin.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Read. Reading. Will Read. Books on walking. @therealkenwilson.bsky.social @shawnmicallef.bsky.social @laurenelkin.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
We have an excerpt from Conor Mc Donnell's fabulous new collection up at the Miramichi Reader if you're looking for a bit of poetry to round out your day:
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Excerpt: What We Know So Far Is… by Conor Mc Donnell
Excerpted with permission from Wolsak & Wynn. Icars crash. Omagh. Wrists are slapped. Omaha. Nothing happens not willed in a haptic universe. Were you to decode our red-herring DNA – escape accumulate...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We have an excerpt from Conor Mc Donnell's fabulous new collection up at the Miramichi Reader if you're looking for a bit of poetry to round out your day:
miramichireader.ca/2025/11/exce...
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Saad Omar Khan is featured on the latest On Creative Writing podcast talking about multiculturalism and writing. It seems like a great show for this week:
www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...
www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...
Podcast | On Creative Writing
On Creative Writing is a monthly podcast show exploring all things creative writing, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, scripts, and essays. Host Sheelagh Caygill interviews authors and w...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Saad Omar Khan is featured on the latest On Creative Writing podcast talking about multiculturalism and writing. It seems like a great show for this week:
www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...
www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...
It's wonderful to see Whitney French's brilliant novel and Sunny Dhillon's fabulous memoir on the great CBC list:
www.cbc.ca/books/14-can...
www.cbc.ca/books/14-can...
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's wonderful to see Whitney French's brilliant novel and Sunny Dhillon's fabulous memoir on the great CBC list:
www.cbc.ca/books/14-can...
www.cbc.ca/books/14-can...
We have some wonderful Why I Wrote this Book posts up at The Miramichi Reader from Katie Welch and Conor Mc Donnell:
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Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #52
Featuring Katie Welch, Ann Cavlovic, Meg Todd, and Conor Mc Donnell
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November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We have some wonderful Why I Wrote this Book posts up at The Miramichi Reader from Katie Welch and Conor Mc Donnell:
miramichireader.ca/2025/11/why-...
miramichireader.ca/2025/11/why-...
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Sunny Dhillon was recently interviewed by John Ackermann for the CityNews Bookshelf about his powerful new book, Hide & Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social, November 11, 2025).
Read the feature:
vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/02/b...
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Read the feature:
vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/02/b...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Sunny Dhillon was recently interviewed by John Ackermann for the CityNews Bookshelf about his powerful new book, Hide & Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social, November 11, 2025).
Read the feature:
vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/02/b...
@citynewsvancouver.bsky.social
Read the feature:
vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/02/b...
@citynewsvancouver.bsky.social
We've a lovely interview with Mariam Pirbhai up at the Story Circle Network. You can read it at the link:
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November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We've a lovely interview with Mariam Pirbhai up at the Story Circle Network. You can read it at the link:
storycirclenetwork.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
storycirclenetwork.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
We're still receiving great reviews for Saad Omar Khan's Drinking the Ocean. Here's a lovely one from Sarah O'Connor:
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Book Review: Drinking the Ocean by Saad Omar Khan
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Would it be like that with her? When she died, would her loved ones be told to move on?…She wondered th…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We're still receiving great reviews for Saad Omar Khan's Drinking the Ocean. Here's a lovely one from Sarah O'Connor:
notsarahconnorwrites.com/2025/10/18/b...
notsarahconnorwrites.com/2025/10/18/b...
Backlist Mondays: Yardwork, A Biography of Urban Place by Daniel Coleman. Shortlisted for the RBC Taylor prize and winner of the Kerry Schooley Award. In this complex book, Coleman asks questions about land and belonging that are steeped in the history of the six nations that call this land home.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Backlist Mondays: Yardwork, A Biography of Urban Place by Daniel Coleman. Shortlisted for the RBC Taylor prize and winner of the Kerry Schooley Award. In this complex book, Coleman asks questions about land and belonging that are steeped in the history of the six nations that call this land home.
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Did you miss our event last night?
Readings and a Q and A with @terivlass.bsky.social @heatherbirrell.bsky.social and @sokhan.bsky.social
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
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Readings and a Q and A with @terivlass.bsky.social @heatherbirrell.bsky.social and @sokhan.bsky.social
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
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Junction Reads with Teri Vlassopoulos, Heather Birrell and Saad Omar Khan
YouTube video by Junction Reads
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November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Did you miss our event last night?
Readings and a Q and A with @terivlass.bsky.social @heatherbirrell.bsky.social and @sokhan.bsky.social
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
youtu.be/ORpXvX9zG04
Readings and a Q and A with @terivlass.bsky.social @heatherbirrell.bsky.social and @sokhan.bsky.social
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
youtu.be/ORpXvX9zG04
Our last post for Hamilton Days, highlighting brilliant essays and writing from Hamilton authors Gary Barwin, Daniel Coleman and Margaret Nowaczyk. You can learn more about all their books here: www.wolsakandwynn.ca
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Our last post for Hamilton Days, highlighting brilliant essays and writing from Hamilton authors Gary Barwin, Daniel Coleman and Margaret Nowaczyk. You can learn more about all their books here: www.wolsakandwynn.ca
Toronto Friends, come down this afternoon to the Meet the Presses Indie Lit Marketplace at the Cecil Community Centre, 12 to 4 pm - we'll be there with all our most recent books along with many other fabulous presses.
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Toronto Friends, come down this afternoon to the Meet the Presses Indie Lit Marketplace at the Cecil Community Centre, 12 to 4 pm - we'll be there with all our most recent books along with many other fabulous presses.
A reminder that Junction Reads is happening at Type Books tomorrow at 6:30 pm. Join Saad Omar Khan along with Heather Birrell and Teri Vlassopoulos for some great readings. But if you can't go in person, you can register below for the livestream:
Heather Birrell, Saad Omar Khan, Teri Vlassopoulos (Livestreaming)
Join us for readings and Q & A with Heather Birrell, Saad Omar Khan, Teri Vlassopoulos. Register for live-stream, and/or pay at the door.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A reminder that Junction Reads is happening at Type Books tomorrow at 6:30 pm. Join Saad Omar Khan along with Heather Birrell and Teri Vlassopoulos for some great readings. But if you can't go in person, you can register below for the livestream:
Highlighting a few more Hamilton writers for Hamilton Days we thought we'd showcase Sally Cooper's sweeping novel With My Back to the World, Rachael Preston's brilliant historical novel Fishers of Paradise and Nicola Winstanley's searing collection Smoke. Visit www.wolsakandwynn.ca to learn more.
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Highlighting a few more Hamilton writers for Hamilton Days we thought we'd showcase Sally Cooper's sweeping novel With My Back to the World, Rachael Preston's brilliant historical novel Fishers of Paradise and Nicola Winstanley's searing collection Smoke. Visit www.wolsakandwynn.ca to learn more.