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Kings River Life Magazine has published a review of Elizabeth Urso’s Hail Mary PLUS a giveaway!Read the full feature. Li...
10/26/2026

Kings River Life Magazine has published a review of Elizabeth Urso’s Hail Mary PLUS a giveaway!

Read the full feature. Link in bio!

“Let’s be very clear—this debut novel is domestic suspense driven by generations of antipathy between the Foreman men and the Foreman women. The rage between the s*xes, the murders, and the ghosts crank this dark story up to Gothic horror. The prologue is particularly gripping with its unknown, dark psychopathic voice, which sets the grisly tone for this compelling novel.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter Foreman House, for here be malevolent spirits.”

Shout out to Event Magazine — one of the very bestest literary magazines on the planet!In the most recent issue, there a...
10/25/2026

Shout out to Event Magazine — one of the very bestest literary magazines on the planet!

In the most recent issue, there are some wonderful reviews — in addition to poetry and prose — including Leah Bobet’s review of Ladder to Heaven by Katie Welch (Wolsak & Wynn) and The Fall Down Effect by Liz Johnston (Book*hug Press).

Literary magazines and journals are where many writers get their start. We are grateful for them, and encourage you to support and subscribe when you can.

Follow Event Magazine here: Event Magazine

More about Event (from their website eventmagazine.ca):

For 50 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. We are one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, and welcome submissions written in English from around the world. Each issue of EVENT includes high quality fiction, poetry, non-fiction and book reviews, and we feature emerging and established writers side-by-side in our pages. Each cover features the work of a BC photographer.

📚: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Katie Welch Book*hug Press Liz Johnston

Meet our new Reviewer-in-Residence, Dr. Micheline Maylor!Our Reviewer-in-Residence (RIR) program aims to celebrate and s...
10/25/2026

Meet our new Reviewer-in-Residence, Dr. Micheline Maylor!

Our Reviewer-in-Residence (RIR) program aims to celebrate and support literary criticism in Canada by inviting seasoned and emerging critics to serve as RIR for a four month term.

During that time they will submit reviews and/or interviews which we published on our blog and share with our communities. An honorarium is provided.

Please join us and welcoming Micheline as our current RIR! Her first review will be available soon.

About Micheline:

Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Calgary (2016-18). She was awarded the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award for literary contributions to Alberta in 2022. She is a Walrus talker, a TEDX talker, and she a past Calgary Public Library Author in Residence (2016). Her most recent book is The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021) won the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award for best book of Alberta poetry. She was short-listed for the Exile Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry. She won the Lois Hole Award for Editorial excellence for poetry in Alberta (2019). Her poems have recently been translated into Farsi, Chinese, and Italian.

📚: Micheline Maylor-Kovitz The Villager Book Reviews

grenoside recluse foun deadat iz mu**er an dad’zup stephen lane—from “grenoside” by Jessica Popeski —In grenoside (The P...
10/24/2026

grenoside recluse
foun dead
at iz mu**er an dad’z
up stephen lane

—from “grenoside” by Jessica Popeski
—

In grenoside (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2026), Jessica Popeski turns back time across multiple generations, transporting readers to war-torn Sheffield, England—the birthplace of stainless steel, a city devastated by the Blitz and other air raids. Written phonetically in Yorkshire dialect, the collection explores matrilineal inheritance, class-related song and oral identity, historically suppressed voices, womanness, madness, accent, dialect, and class. Through sharp and emotionally resonant poems, Popeski asks difficult questions about intergenerational trauma, depression, memory, and survival.

What makes grenoside especially compelling is its bold relationship to language itself. The collection’s use of dialect and sound becomes both an artistic and political act, preserving voices and histories often flattened or erased. The result is a work that is lyrical, unsettling, intimate, and formally daring.

Jessica Popeski is a dis/abled opera singer, professor, and internationally published intersectional ecofeminist poet whose work has appeared in Room, Grain, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Filling Station, and Best Canadian Poetry 2027, among others. She was named one of Tkaronto’s “exceptional up and coming writers” by Open Book and is the author of Oratorio, The Wrong Place, and the problem with having a body.

📖: Jessica Popeski Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill Canadian Poets Spotlight

More Than a M**F: S*x and the Aging Female Body edited by Robyn Diner, Off Topic Publishing, October 24, 2026.DM us to r...
10/22/2026

More Than a M**F: S*x and the Aging Female Body edited by Robyn Diner, Off Topic Publishing, October 24, 2026.

DM us to request a review copy!

This is the only nonfiction literary anthology in recent years to zero in on s*x in relationship to aging female and nonbinary bodies.

A 70-year-old psychotherapist in Australia hires an es**rt. When he doesn’t give her what she asked for, she emails to request for a refund. A middle-aged woman in Lebanon is in the middle of a ménage à trois when bombs start exploding around the building. A teacher in their fifties reflects on decades of q***r s*x in Canada and concludes that they would rather eat cheese.

Featuring thirty diverse and disruptive voices, these stories both celebrate pleasure and interrogate why so much shame and pain still haunt the terrain. In conversation with one another and the current midlife zeitgeist, they ask: How can women and nonbinary people age erotically, playfully and unapologetically?

Key contributors include: Gail Rice, Chrissy King, Abbe Aronson, Nicole Yellow Robe, Jowita Bydlowska, Treena Orchard and Andrea Zanin.

Dr. Robyn Diner writes about s*x and aging solo in the city. She also teaches contemporary literature to young adults in the English Department at Vanier College by day. At night she facilitates a variety of online courses aimed at adults exploring topics like autofiction, irony and midlife female bodies. Before switching to college, Dr. Diner spent over a decade teaching courses on contemporary and popular culture at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Her PhD dissertation in Concordia University’s department of Communication Studies examined the spectacle of the unruly female body in the performances of icons like Courtney Love and Coco Fusco. Dr. Diner is a Montréal local who can’t quite get over how much cute dresses at the thrift shops currently cost—never mind the price of groceries.

❤️‍🔥: Robyn Diner Off Topic Publishing

Love ghost stories? Then you’ll want to check out Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes by Mark Leslie, forthcoming October 2...
10/21/2026

Love ghost stories?

Then you’ll want to check out Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes by Mark Leslie, forthcoming October 27, 2026 with Wolsak & Wynn—just in time for some spooky season. 📖

For a look behind the scenes, check out Mark’s recent feature on Lorie Lewis Ham’s Kings River Life Magazine, where he shares a bit about a fascinating story that didn’t make it into the book.

Click our Linktree bio link to read the full article.

“In the 1890s, William O. Wyckoff, who made his fortune selling Re*****on typewriters, commissioned architect William Henry Miller to build him this summer palace of roughly 1,400 square metres (15,000 square feet).

Sadly, his wife, Frances, died about five weeks before the house was finished. Wyckoff moved in alone. And on his first night under that roof, in July of 1895, the sixty-year-old man suffered a fatal heart attack.

No one has lived in the villa since 1927. For the better part of a century the building has stood there and slowly rotted in full view of passing boats.

Here is the problem, and the reason the story is not in my book.“
—Mark Leslie

✨: Mark Leslie Lefebvre Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Nonfiction Writers Workshop

Photo of Wycloff Villa: MyStateMLS 📸

Check out these awesome pictures from the Toronto launch of Palimpsest Press’s fall titles at Another Story Bookshop. 😍F...
10/21/2026

Check out these awesome pictures from the Toronto launch of Palimpsest Press’s fall titles at Another Story Bookshop. 😍

Featured books and authors include:

🧚‍♂️: Fairy, the wonderful fall nonfiction from beloved Toronto q***r icon Kirby. In Fairy, Kirby continues to mine their riches and fan the flames lit in their instant classic, Poetry is Q***r.

💙: Ritual, Interrupted, the stunning new poetry from acclaimed poet David Ly. Ritual, Interrupted is a poetic grimoire that looks to imagined worlds for self-discovery.

📚: Footnotes: Case Studies in Canadian Small Press Book Making by small press aficionado, Cameron Anstee. This fascinating read is a deep dive to look at small press book makers in Canada from the 1960s onwards, offering a tribute to the people who have found ways to make books—and to persist in making books—celebrating work that is all too often un- or underacknowledged.

Learn more about Palimpsest Press here: Palimpsest Press

Follow the authors here: David Ly Cameron Anstee

Remember to support your local book independent bookstore. We ♥️ Another Story Bookshop!

📸: Courtesy of Kirby and Jim Johnstone.

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