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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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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're delighted to see Conor Mc Donnell's brilliant collection, What We Know So Far Is... on the longlist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry along with these other fabulous titles! rclas.com
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's a wonderful post up at River Street featuring our fall authors talking about their favourite comfort reads: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/10...
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Escaping the News Cycle with BOOKS! — River Street Writing
Find out which books your favourite authors turn to when the news cycle and our fast-paced lifestyles are too overwhelming. By: Micaela Carcamo Some of the fall 2026 Wolsak and Wynn authors hav...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For this week's Throwback Thursday we'd like to highlight Jenna Butler's gorgeous collection Revery: A Year of Bees. The perfect meditative read for fall days, this slim book charts a year of bee keeping and running a small farm in the boreal forest. bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/.../revery-a...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a lovely bit of news! www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature | CBC News
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson for her "bold and inventive oeuvre."
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We're delighted with the early reader's reviews that are coming in for Elliott Dunstan's brilliant debut novel Grotesque!
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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is release day for the lake-shaped excuse!! 💛 Thank you so much for reading, if you do. Thank you for holding this grief, this love, this anger, this regret, this laughter, this silence, towards yours. For my mom, Sharon Conyer. Every day. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
Several copies of the lake-shaped excuse displayed on a dock.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're delighted to bringing out another fabulous collection from Chris Chambers this fall. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/mis...
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're sharing a list of new fiction, poetry, and non-fiction by women over on All Lit Up: alllitup.ca/book-list/bo...
A graphic labelled "12 Books and many more for Women's History Month 2026" with 12 book covers: Dish by Nancy Jo Cullen; Everyone Can't Be Wrong by Sonal Champsee; Fragile Like a Bomb by Catherine Fred Lavarenne, translated by Natalia Hero; The Age of Silence Alaa Al-Musalli; Dayboil by Sharon King-Campbell; Two Days in Mayaro by Pamela Mordecai; Whispering Gallery by Dani Spinosa; Women, Walking; Motherness by Julie M. Green; Where the Eff is my Red Tent by Heather Hendrie; She Ran by Ann Rauhala; and WELÍK’T by Kalli Van Stone.
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Civilian Reader @civilianreader.com · 05/10/2026
New excerpt: GROTESQUE by Elliott Dunstan (@fiversdream.bsky.social)... civilianreader.com/2026/10/05/e... Out next week (Oct.13th), published by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social. @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
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Excerpt: GROTESQUE by Elliott Dunstan (Wolsak & Wynn)
Next week, Wolsak & Wynn will publish Grotesque, the latest book by Elliott Dunstan , the Ottawa-based “poet, historian, author, cook, proud anarchist, drag performer, and otherwise man o…
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ottawa friends, this great event is happening tomorrow! We hope you can come out!
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We're delighted to see some early reviews coming in for Mark Leslie's fabulous Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes! You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gho...
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chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
so great to see @conyerclayton.bsky.social nail this interview with CTV Your Morning Ottawa! so great to see this gorgeous, breathtaking book already making waves! ORDER THE LAKE-SHAPED EXCUSE! @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video...
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Ottawa-Based Poet Conyer Clayton on new book 'The Lake-Shaped Excuse'
We introduce you to Ottawa-based Poet Conyer Clayton who has just released a new book.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's National Pumpkin Spice Day and we thought it was maybe time to break out the spooky reads, so we put together a list of great spooky books coming this October for House Style. You can check it out here: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/blog/spooky-...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In true Hollay fashion, she takes the time to talk about the other books she loves, including Armand Garnet Ruffo's The Dialogues:
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We hope you take some time today to consider the words of one of the many brilliant Indigenous writers who have shared their stories with us.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Toronto friends, the next Junction reads is coming up at Type Books in the Junction on Sunday, October 4th at 6:30 pm featuring Jaclyn Desforges, Aga Maksimowska and Christine Fischer Guy! We hope you can come out. You can register for tickets here: junction-reads.bloomtickets.ca/hostinfo/2881
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have some lovely early reviews coming in Nancy Jo Cullen's Dish: www.shirleyhaywrites.com/book-reviews...
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Dish — Shirley Hay Writes
By Nancy Jo Cullen
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you don't happen to live close enough to Waterloo to catch Suzanne Craig-Whytock's Reader's Delight on air, last week's show, which featured Richard Harrison, Liz Johnston and Lucian Childs is now available online! radiowaterloo.ca/readers-deli...
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Reader’s Delight, Episode 34, September 27, 2026 | CKMS-FM 102.7 Radio Waterloo
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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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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My book is here and it is, in my humble opinion, extremely beautiful!!!! It officially comes out in 1 week! Thank you x a million to designer Natalie Olson and to @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social xoxoxo I hope you enjoy my big book of grief and regret and love.
The lake-shaped excuse being held up in front of water.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A reminder that we're down at Word on the Street Toronto today and tomorrow! Come down and say hi at Booth #1! toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca
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The Word On The Street Toronto – Canada's Largest Literary Festival
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today's Follow Friday post is Rob McLennan. Either his blog: robmclennan.blogspot.com or his Canadian Poet series: peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com or any one of his social media feeds. If you're at all interested in poetry in Canada, you should be following what rob is doing.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As we head up to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we'd like to highlight this fabulous essay collection from John Brady McDonald, Carrying it Forward. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/car...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're delighted to see a starred review for Elliott Dunstan's breathtaking debut novel Grostesque. You can read the whole review here: quillandquire.com/review/grote... And learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gro...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes and the works they subsequently produce. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7774 - Petitions
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just noticing the seasons changing and all the great books coming up. We hope your TBR pile is getting nice and tall.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We're looking forward to bringing out Mark Leslie's sweeping collection of folklore and legends, Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes, this October. It's the perfect read for the season. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/gho...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Conor Mc Donnell is up on the Stranger Fiction podcast: www.strangerfiction.ca/conor-mc-don...
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Conor Mc Donnell on Letting the Reader Work - STRANGER FICTION
Poet and pediatric anesthesiologist Conor Mc Donnell joins the podcast to discuss how he lets his readers do the work.
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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks @manahil.bsky.social for including me in this folio for @periodicities.bsky.social about "cut" poems! This poem does appear in the lake-shaped excuse (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), which comes out in just a few weeks! bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Conyer Clayton: Scrapbook: Failing to find a line by Robert Creeley in a book by Frank Stanford


He had a heart I wish I had.
          —Robert Creeley 

I guess I placed two white
orchid flowers between 

these pages but I forget
when. They didn’t exist 

until today when they
crumbled onto my lap.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This great event is only one week away. If you happen to be in Ingersoll, come down to Commonplace Books for a wonderful evening of laughter and writing with these great authors, including our own Brad Smith. You can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...
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In Conversation with Humour Writers at Commonplace Books
Hear from some hilarious writers and dive into the funny side of storytelling.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a wonderful discussion to listen to on a Sunday, with Kit Dobson and Ken Wilson talking about Kit's wonderful work of literary nonfiction, Field Notes on Listening: walklistencreate.org/video/listen...
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Listening – Kit Dobson in conversation with Ken Wilson – walk · listen · create
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We'll be at Word on the Street Toronto in just one week, sharing Booth #1 with our good friends Book*hug! We hope you can come down and say hi. You can find out all the information you need about WOTS here: toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's Follow Friday time - if you don't already follow All Lit Up, the blog and online storefront of the Literary Press Group, I recommend you do so! Not only do they have a sale going on right now, but there's interviews, articles and all sorts of information about independent publishing in Canada!
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ewan Whyte will be taking part in this fascinating lecture in the Walter Rodney Seminar Series at Boston University, you can register to take part online here: bostonu.zoom.us/.../reg.../1....
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's not really a throw back, but this Thursday, and for the next few, we're bringing up an older title that is frankly brilliant. Catherine Graham's Aether will start us off. A long-poem lyric essay, this book defies genres to tell an incredible story. bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/aet...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We've some great new pieces up at House Style, including this fabulous list of books to get excited about from Natasha Ramoutar: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/blog/7-books... Remember House Style is free, but you do need to sign up to access the articles!
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Let's hope that more people decide to invest in small press publishing this way. This is lovely news for Melville House: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Melville House to ‘Recapitalize’ with New Partner
Illuminating Media, publisher of the online newspaper CT Examiner and literary journal Majuscule, has become a 50-50 partner with Melville House founders Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This looks like a great event for these interesting times! Join Brad Smith, the author of Billy Crawford's Double Play along with other great authors at Common Place Books in Ingersoll, on September 28th, 6 to 7:30 pm.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ottawa friends, we hope you can come out to this fabulous event!
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A wonderful early review for Conyer Clayton's gorgeous collection The Lake-shaped Excuse: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-lake-s...
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the lake-shaped excuse by Conyer Clayton
A Review by Micaela Carcamo
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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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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shana tova to all our friends celebrating today!
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hamilton Friends, here's the full schedule for the Author tent at Supercrawl:
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Denise Davy is opening up the HAALSA lecture season with a discussion about her important book Her Name Was Margaret on September 19th at McMaster University. You can lean more about HAALSA, Hamilton's longest running lecture series here: www.haalsa.org
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hamilton Friends, we hope you can join Jason Allen, author of 52 Things to Do In Hamilton and and Meredith McLeod, of Hamilton City Magazine at the Author tent Saturday, September 12 at 4:30 pm to hear learn more about this great city!
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We have another great review in for Conor Mc Donnell's fabulous poetry collection What We Know So Far Is... www.sarahailstone.com/book-reviews...
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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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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is some lovely news for genre writers in Canada! A new prize, named in honour of Andrew Pyper, that will be awarded to mid-career writers with at least three works under their name. www.writerstrust.com/awards/andre...
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We're delighted to see so many wonderful small presses included in this year's Giller Longlist.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Somehow we missed this lovely review of Natalie Lim's Elegy for Opportunity last June in CV2: contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/eleg...
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Elegy for Opportunity – Contemporary Verse 2
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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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