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Wolsak & Wynn
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A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.
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The book club is having a comeback. Across Toronto, young readers are reviving a centuries-old tradition and transforming it into a way to build meaningful friendships. Journalist Janna Abbas explores: thewalrus.ca/find-a-book-club/
On the left: an image of a pile of books with a door in the middle on a white background. People are walking toward and into the door.. On the right: text that reads “Forget running groups and work socials. Find a book club. A generation of lonely readers looks to make connections”
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Ottawa friends, tune in tomorrow morning to hear Christy Climenhage talking to hosts Susan Johnston, Micah Petti and Gianluca Petti and CKCU's Friday Special Blend at 93.1 FM
Book cover The Midnight Project with text on top stating: Tomorrow 08:15 on the Friday Special Bend CKCU FM 93.1
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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An interesting lunch read: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
OverDrive Sues OpenAI Over Sora App
The digital distributor to schools and libraries is charging the AI company with trademark infringement related to its new text-to-video app Sora, which has the same name and a “confusingly similar vi...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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We've a new post up on the blog highlighting some poetry books that we feel are perfectly suited to November.
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Poetry for the Pause — Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd.
November often feels like the month we catch our breath before we plunge into the swirl and sparkle of the holiday season that is just around the corner. There’s still some light, and a few leaves on ...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Vancouver friends, we're hoping you can join us tomorrow night for the double book launch of Katie Welch's Ladder for Heaven and Peter Darbyshire's The Wonder Lands War! Cross & Crow Books, 7pm. Come celebrate with us!
Top: Book covers for Ladder to Heaven and The Wonder Lands War. Bottom: Double Book Launch, Nov 20, Cross & Crow Books 2836 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, 7 PM
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 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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Our latest #WritersBlock features @thesunnydhillon.com on his debut memoir, HIDE AND SIKH (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), how writing helps him make sense of the world, & the stories of growing up with racism he hopes will prepare others who share his experience.

🔗: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
The image is a "Writer's Block" graphic with the series title in the upper right corner and the All Lit Up logo in the upper left. The graphic's image is a black and white author photo of Sunny Dhillon. The cover of his memoir "Hide and Sikh" is in the bottom left corner. The cover is a gradient of vibrant purple and orange tones, and the title of the text takes up the entire cover in large, slightly transparent, sans serif white text.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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We've put together a series of RIYL's (recommended if you like) pairing our books with some well known titles to help readers find great CanLit books. This pairing is all about love, and gorgeous writing. You can learn more about Drinking the Ocean here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/dri...
Picture with text and book covers reading If you liked Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout then you'll love Drinking the Ocean by Saad Omar Khan. smaller text reads: thoughtful books about love in all its forms.
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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It's time for a new office window from the brilliant Joe Ollman!
Painted cardboard illustrations of a dragon reading in a library, women and children in a bombed out landscape and a woman with a piano.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Calgary friends, this fabulous panel on Censorship in Schools, which features our author Kit Dobson, is coming up this Thursday. You can register here:
events.ucalgary.ca/arts/event/5...
University of Calgary
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November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Backlist Mondays: The Western Alienation Merit Badge by Nancy Jo Cullen. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for novels, A smart book dripping in Calgarian history, Merit Badge is dramatic queer coming of age set against the backdrop of the National Energy Program.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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If you know new authors who are looking into publishing, please do encourage them to engage in their due diligence about any company they may be contacting. The are many publishing scams now and with AI they are becoming increasingly difficult to spot:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam
Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money
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November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Katie Welch is on the Artsy Raven Podcast talking about her wonderful book Ladder to Heaven. You can listen here:
Youtube: youtu.be/qXmSLzqqQbU
Ep 93 Climate Fiction and Magical Realism with Katie Welch
YouTube video by The Artsy Raven Podcast about Writing & Art
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November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Thank you to the publishers who support Q&Q's work with advertising. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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ICYMI: Kamloop’s author Katie Welch was featured in BC Living’s fall reading list!

Check out full list below.

bcliving.ca/entertainmen...

#britishcolumbia #bcliving #canlit #CanLit

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November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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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A photo of Whitney French. She is a Black woman with chin-length dreadlocks. She is standing in front of a wall and smiling into the camera.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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
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A wonderful reading of The Book of Interruptions from rob mclennan!
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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.

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November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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We've a lovely review of Kyle Flemmer's Supergiants up at Sarah Hailstone's blog:
www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...
Supergiants — Sara Hailstone
Book review of Kyle Flemmer’s, “Supergiants.”
www.sarahailstone.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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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...
An author photo of Brad Smith with the "Under the Cover" series logo in the upper left corner. In the bottom left corner, and cover of BILLY CRAWFORD'S DOUBLE PLAY has been superimposed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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...
Poem Excerpt: Then it's April, springtime, a time of flowers and new growth, but it's 1916, and the number of dead float in the air like tiny droplets of dew. How do you make sense of it? 133,000 French, 100,000 British, including Canadians, 120,000 Germans, and on and on, until the little drops of dew become an ocean and mean little or nothing, unless it's someone you knew. poem excerpt: Officer: A fine job done. I'm putting you up for a commendation. But why are you such a longer? Francis: I go out with others at first. I turn to my partner but he only has half a head, and I come back along and swear: no spotter for me from that point on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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-...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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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
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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...
Author Talk: James Cairns, Tanis MacDonald & Mariam Pirbhai
For Adults
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM