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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Life doesn’t only happen in cities… These 7️⃣ breathtaking books were featured on a recent @booktrib.bsky.social column celebrating stories set in rural Canada. Thank you to contributor Michael Schmidt for spotlighting rural fiction. 🫶🏼 Read the article: booktrib.com/2026/10/02/r... #litfic

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“When authors get together to gripe, they often gripe about this: people asking, ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ It’s posed at dinner parties and public readings and even in media interviews.“ Read the full interview Will Ferguson: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/8/... @gooselane.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“My Love is a Durian by Kelly Kaur is a powerful, stylistically diverse exploration of what it means to be a daughter, a rebel, and an activist. Like the durian, the poems are sharp-edged; they are also soft-centred, fragrant, and memorable.” —Leesa Dean, THE WOODLOT the-wood-lot.ca/2026/10/01/f...

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In just a couple days I’m scheduled to pop on over to Winnipeg for the 2026 Winnipeg Book Festival for two panels. 📚 🪻Misidentification on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM. 💕 In Short on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. www.plumewinnipeg.ca #winnipeg

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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Reconciliation prompted us to relinquish negative feelings over the past, but many, including myself, were not willing to do that. Because we have not severed from the past. The past endures,” says Billy-Ray Belcourt in an interview about his latest book.

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Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Poems Insist on Indigenous Freedom

In his first poetry collection since 2019, the acclaimed author from Driftpile Cree Nation challenges readers to imagine new political possibilities…

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was so much fun! Thanks for the invite!

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See Us Fly from the Point of the Arrow: Indigenous Womxn on Our Lands, Waters and Relations Ed. waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy, forthcoming with Wolsak & Wynn, October 20, 2026. Learn more: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/see... #truthandreconciliation #IndigenousVoices #turtleisland

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Sheelagh Caygill 🇨🇦 @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kelly Kaur: Writing about the unseen and unheard Writer Kelly Kaur will release two books in 2026, showcasing her passion for human rights, creativity, and vivid storytelling, while addressing themes of immigration, race, and women's experiences.

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Kelly Kaur: Writing about the unseen and unheard

Writer Kelly Kaur will release two books in 2026, showcasing her passion for human rights, creativity, and vivid storytelling, while addressing themes of immigration, race, and women's experiences.

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Acclaimed author Ed Seaward reviews The Unravelling of Ou—the Giller Prize longlisted novel by Iranian-Canadian author Hollay Ghadery, published by Palimpsest Press. Read the full review:🪻 www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/6/... #bookreview @hollay.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

✨COMING SOON! ✨ Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes by Mark Leslie, forthcoming with Wolsak & Wynn, October 13, 2026 bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gho... DM us to request a review copy. 👻 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #ghoststories #nonfiction #newreleases

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Award-winning author Rod Carley is featured in the Sudbury Star & will be signing books in Sudbury today, Saturday, September 26, 2026! www.thesudburystar.com/entertainmen... #cats #yabook #art #youngadult #readers #sudbury

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The excellent Ken Wilson calls my novel, “audacious” & in this spirit, I’m sharing one of the (desperate, cloying) private photos I’ve sent my daughter while she’s at school to remind her of my unrelenting love, adoration, & really, my existence. oncreativewriting.com/post/the-unr... #bookreview

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An excerpt of Gary Barwin’s breathtaking novel, The Comedian’s Book of the Dead (Book*hug Press), is available to read at The Civilian Reader. civilianreader.com/2026/09/21/e... @bookhugpress.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In what might be the understatement of the century, Brockville Recorder & Times reporter Catherine Orth called me “an extrovert”. Here’s a link to the full article via a LinkTree link.🔗 tr.ee/pRjTqY #iran #canada #litfic #brockvilleontario #books @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Read the our interview with Ed Seaward, author of London Gothic (Dark Winter Press, 2026), by visiting our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/7/... #gothic #londonontario #ireadcanadian #author #books

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Coming soon! ✨ The Case of the Caprice of Lost Time by Rune Christiansen, released October 6, 2026 with Book*hug Press. DM us to request a review copy. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f... @bookhugpress.bsky.social #books #norway #translation

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“[…]a brilliant examination of the psychological need humans have to separate ourselves from trauma and loss in order to cope.” -Shirley Hay Thank you to Shirley Hay for a thoughtful response to The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press). #bookreview www.shirleyhaywrites.com/book-reviews...

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My novel, The Unravelling of Ou, is on the 2026 Giller longlist and in some fine company! #books #litfic #speculativefiction

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In this episode, I speak with the iconic Kirby about their joyful and powerful new book, Fairy (Palimpsest Press, 2026). Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/fairy 🧚‍♂️: @itsakirby.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #queerlit #fairy #nonfiction

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you don’t already, and you are interested, please sign up for my newsletter: You can do so here: www.hollayghadery.ca/newsletter I don’t have any regular cadence for how often I send it out. Maybe a handful of times a year.🪻 #author #writing #poet

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“a book that asks to be experienced as much as interpreted, its language carrying the reader through a future in which memory has become currency and the remnants of humanity are struggling to determine what, and whom, is worth carrying forward.” -S Hailstone www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Skin Hunger” is a translation of the Danish term hudsult which literally means “starved for touch”. It relates to psychologist Harry Harlow’s comfort-contact theory and his experiments with baby rhesus monkeys during the 1960s. Learn more: guernicaeditions.com/products/ski... #animalrights

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

River of Dreams by Robin Blackburn-McBride (October 1, 2026). This enthralling story of one woman’s journey explores the power of intuition and giving voice to the silenced. DM us to request a review copy! guernicaeditions.com/products/riv... @guernicaeditions.bsky.social #historicalfiction

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Two of the books we’ve been celebrating are on the 2026 Giller Prize Longlist! gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p... 🪻: Unravelling of Ou by Iranian-Canadian author Hollay Ghadery, Palimpsest Press. 🌊: Your Breath in Charcoal by acclaimed maritime author Nicholas Herring, Goose Lane Editions.

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hamartiaandi.bsky.social @hamartiaandi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Book review of Conor Mc Donnell's poetry, "What we know so far is..." ' Published by Buckrider Books Review for @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social sarahailstone.com/book-reviews... #Canlit #poetry #bookreview

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What We Know So Far Is… — Sara Hailstone

Book review of Conor Mc Donnell’s, “ What we know so far is…”

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Read a wonderful review of Family Rooms by Dr. Jennifer Wilson and Dr. Carlye Jensen in The Seaboard Review of Books. open.substack.com/pub/theseabo... piquantpress.ca/family-rooms... Photo by: Erika Jensen-Mann, twomann.com #healthcare #medicine #nonfiction

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Acclaimed Jamaican-born, Toronto-dwelling author Pamela Mordecai joins us on our blog for a Power Q & A! In this interview, she speaks to her ideal audience. Read the interview: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/power-q... #caribbeanliterature #shortstories @gooselane.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Elliott Dunstan’s novel Grotesque is a beautifully crafted, gender fluid tale of outcasts and arcane power, old gods and hidden tunnels, monstrous inhumanity and startling tenderness.” — K.R. Wilson Learn more: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gro... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #queerlit

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Over the Lights Over the Houses is worth the read. Halford’s work of fiction is quick-witted, easy to read through, and provides material that shows how chaotic family get- togethers take place during the holidays. L” —Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. Read the full review: substack.com/@douglascmac...

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

✨New 3%: A CanLit Publicist’s Diary column on Substack! Inspired by the publicity blackhole at the end of summer, this instalment is part one of a multi-part series on what authors can do to take control of their own content. Read the article: hollayghadery.substack.com/p/the-summer... #writers

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Catch Ian Brown—award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon—on Global News talking about his new #book, SEVENTY (Penguin Random House Canada, 2026). Watch the full interview:🔗 globalnews.ca/video/120395... In SEVENTY, Brown recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy.

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Ian Brown on aging with humour and humility in his new book ‘Seventy’ | Watch News Videos Online

Watch Ian Brown on aging with humour and humility in his new book ‘Seventy’ Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sarkhosh! The Unravelling of Ou, my debut novel about a woman and her sock puppet, was The New Books Network Book of the Day. 📖 You can listen on YouTube: youtu.be/blWQUUQnZVQ?... More about The Unravelling of Ou: palimpsestpress.ca/books/the-un... #queerlit #books #iran

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You may recognize Catherine Owen as River Street’s current Reviewer-in-Residence. You may also recognize her as the award-winning author of seventeen collections of poetry and prose. If you live in Edmonton, you may know her through her arts work and advocacy. #housing #nonfiction #memoir

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hamartiaandi.bsky.social @hamartiaandi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Book review of Kelly Kaur's, "My Love is a Durian" Forthcoming with University of Calgary Press Reviewed for @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews... #Bookreview #Canlit #Poetry

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My Love is a Durian — Sara Hailstone

Book review of Kelly Kaur’s, “My Love is a Durian.”

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In this NBN episode, I speak with acclaimed poet & biographer, Molly Peacock, The Widow’s Crayon Box (WW Norton & Co)—a book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation. Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/the-widows-c... #poetry

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hamartiaandi.bsky.social @hamartiaandi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Book review of Sunny Dhillon's, "Hide and Sikh" Published with Wolsak & Wynn Reviewed for @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews... #Bookreview #Canlit

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Hide and Sikh — Sara Hailstone

Book review of Sunny Dhillon’s, “Hide and Sikh.”

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The crime: Book nibbling and defilement. The accused: Binoo. The book: Fairy by Kirby. The defence: “It’s delectable.” The sentence: Innocent. We couldn’t agree more. You can pre-order this read from wherever books are bought or borrowed. palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-... #queerlit

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Liz Johnston @lizjohnston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So grateful to Julia Lichtblau for this brilliant reading of The Fall-Down Effect alongside Eoghan Walls's Field Notes from an Extinction. (cc @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social)

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#WomeninTranslationMonth Something That Helps by Mona Høvring, translated by Kari Dickson, (Book*hug Press, 10/26) Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-street-reads A stirring portrait of a girl’s sexual awakening, & the turbulence of family life, of friendship and loss.

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ritual, Interrupted (poems) by David Ly, forthcoming with Palimpsest Press, September 15, 2026 Request a review or media copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Learn more: palimpsestpress.ca/books/ritual... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #poetry

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Creating and sustaining spaces for literary conversations takes an enormous amount of work, but those spaces matter.” —Selena Mercuri Read the full interview about state of reviewing in Canada: the-wood-lot.ca/2026/08/11/t... @selenamercuri.bsky.social @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social #poetry

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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Read an excerpt: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-comedi... Blending wit with deeply moving scenes of empathy & compassion, The Comedian’s Book of the Dead is a heartbreaking & humorous journey into the joy & pain of parenthood, and a thoughtful exploration of choice & agency, sacrifice and love.

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The Comedian’s Book of the Dead: An excerpt of the new novel by Gary Barwin

Preview Gary Barwin's new book, a profound and imaginative underworld quest, and a fresh, funny page turner

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A few years ago, I had a piece of short fiction published in The Ampersand Review and in this most recent issue, your girl here is on the cover. theampersandreview.ca/hollay-ghade... 💕: @theampersandreview.bsky.social . . . #publicity #bookpublicity #canadianauthor #ketabdoost #iraniancanada

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interview on HOWL Radio CIUT 89.5FM So very grateful to @hollay.bsky.social for inspiring, energizing, generous conversation about Mega-Galaxies, my poetry chapbook from @DriftwoodPress Listen to episode here: howlciut.podbean.com/e/howl-tuesday… 🎙️ Host: @newbooksnetwork & @howl895fm

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

grenoside, new poetry by Jessica Popeski, forthcoming with Gordon Hill Press, 01/09/26. Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... In grenoside, Jessica Popeski turns back time across multiple generations, transporting readers to war-torn Sheffield, England. #poetry

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