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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Dunn sees Palimpsest’s continued success as the result, in part, of its size.”

—Palimpsest Press Publisher, Aimee Dunn in the interview “‘Too small to fail’: Windsor indie Palimpsest Press marks 25 years” with Quill and Quire.

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Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congrats to Tea Gerbeza! How I Bend Into More is a finalist for the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGTBQ2S+ emerging writers!

Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social · Sep 3

✨ Meet the finalists for the 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers!
◢ Tea Gerbeza (How I Bend Into More, @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)
◢ Roza Nozari (All the Parts We Exile, Knopf Canada)
◢ Ziyad Saadi (Three Parties, Hamish Hamilton Canada)
Winner annc't: Nov 13 #WTAwards.

Three book covers and the heading "2025 Finalists: Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers"

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am so blissed/blessed. #luckyus #PIQ

Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #Happy25th

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KIRBY "Fairy" Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

POETRY IS QUEER, Kirby - Palimpsest Press

Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world.

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Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Little shout outs too to our founder Dawn Kresan, my editor extraordinaire Jim Johnstone, and our talented designer Ellie Hastings.

Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Many thanks to Cassandra Drudi and the Quill & Quire for this lovely write-up about Palimpsest and my experience becoming a publisher. I really enjoyed the chance to chat about my wonderful authors and their equally wonderful books.

Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · Aug 28

Palimpsest Press publisher Aimée Parent Dunn jokes that her Windsor-based small press is too small to fail. https://bit.ly/4oT0Tu5

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · Aug 28

Palimpsest Press publisher Aimée Parent Dunn jokes that her Windsor-based small press is too small to fail. https://bit.ly/4oT0Tu5

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · Jun 16

Fairy. Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @shawnalemay.bsky.social's Apples on a Windowsill (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)!

Lemay teaches us how to be attentive to the beauty in our lives, in ordinary things and their poetry, and in our own ordinariness...

www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lemay-3...

The cover of Shawna Lemay's Apples on a Windowsill. It's a photo of several green apples and pears on the sill of a large open window, with sun shining on them. The interior room is very dark. Beyond the window, there is a deliberately-blurred light brick building

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · Jun 20

“On a deeper level, his essays are about what it’s like to navigate a world that is often hostile to those who aren’t, as Neilson puts it ‘Normies.’” Anne Thériault reviews Shane Neilson's What to Feel, How to Feel @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #Canlit buff.ly/qmzCsWh

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jul 1

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social : How a poem begins / @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/07/tea-...

Tea Gerbeza : How a poem begins

How does a poem begin? When I first started learning paper quilling, I twirled the foundational shapes over and over again—coils...

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jul 1

7/10 The Saltbox Olive by Angela Antle @acantle.bsky.social ‬(@breakwaterbooks.bsky.social) & A Town with No Noise by Karen Smythe @karensmythe.bsky.social (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social).

See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #CanadaDay

Book cover for The Saltbox Olive by Angela Antle (Breakwater Books‬), with a collage of a house forming a woman's hair. When Caroline Fisher studied art in Florence in the mid-1990s, trying unsuccessfully to finagle a way to live there for the rest of her days, she was unaware of her family’s history in Italy—how her grandfather had travelled the same streets and railway lines she did, or how her great-uncle Arch... lay buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in those mountains. And how could she, when her grandfather burned his brother’s letters after returning home from the war? When an olive tree arrives at Caroline’s front door, family secrets begin to unravel, sending her back to Italy to find answers. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/the-saltbox-olive

Book cover for A Town with No Noise by Karen Smythe (Palimpsest Press) with a river winding through a town drawn in a naïve style. Samara and J., a struggling young couple, are off to J.’s birthplace, Upton Bay, a small town turned upscale theatre and winery destination. Sam has been hired by an editor friend to write a promotional piece about the place while she and J. stay with his grandfather Otto, a prominent businessman in his day. But their visit does not go as planned. Sam’s explorations of Upton’s tourist attractions lead her to ugly truths behind the quaint little town’s façade—discoveries that are counterpointed with vignettes of the town’s wealthy, elderly ruling class, painting a different picture than the one Sam’s friend expects her to provide. Tensions between Sam and J. worsen as J.’s true nature emerges and Sam begins to question both his values and his family’s past—especially after Otto tells them stories about his time as a German soldier during WW2. Back in the city, Sam’s opinions and judgments about what is right and wrong are tested when a shocking truth surfaces about her grandmother’s flight from Norway after the war, profoundly changing Sam’s understanding of who she is and who she wants to become. In A Town with No Noise, fact and fiction combine to ask difficult questions about the communities we build, questions that are as relevant today as ever: Who stays? Who is chased away? And who decides? https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/a-town-with-no-noise-karen-smythe/

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MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social · Jul 3

We had a lot of fun using the projection screen for our performance.

It was also great to catch up with Hamilton friends like Steacy Easton & Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social (who happens to be one of our @palimpsestpress.bsky.social mates).

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Jul 4

Our #fridayreads pick is @karensmythe.bsky.social's new novel A TOWN WITH NO NOISE (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) - read a sneak-peek on today's #excerpted, right here: alllitup.ca/excerpted-a-...

The cover of A Town with No Noise by Karen Smythe. It features the Egon Schiele watercolour painting Town on the Blue River, featuring a blue river bisecting green fields, with the roofs of houses, other buildings, and trees visible among the landscape.

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Jul 10

"am I or am I not
the Steve Buscemi of Canadian poetry"

@unfamiliarweather.bsky.social reads from his new collection LOST SIGNAL (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) for today's #poetryinmotion. Watch the reading here: alllitup.ca/poetry-in-mo...

A photo of poet Chris Hutchinson. He is a light skin-toned man, bald with a close-trimmed grey/brown beard, wearing a floral-patterned shirt and brown plastic glasses. He stands against a wooden fence door and holds his arms behind his back, smiling.

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · Jul 16

It’s so cool to see my forthcoming novel start to pop up places!

The Unravelling of Ou will be released with Palimpsest Press February 2026 & is can be preordered from many retailers now.

Want a review or media copy? Drop me a line!

www.hollayghadery.ca/contact

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jul 22

10/18 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @karensmythe.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social @stelliform.press ‬ @playcanpress.bsky.social ‬@caitlinpress.bsky.social

Book cover for A Room in the Forest by Heather Ramsay (Caitlin Press), with swirls of greens and blues. Nineteen-year-old Lily knows she doesn’t belong at a dead-end job in her father’s small-town Alberta furniture store, not when she’s been offered a job in the ancient forests of Haida Gwaii. But her search for a sense of place becomes more complicated when a band of tree planters she meets on the road question her assumptions about whose land she is moving towards. Once at the logging camp, the rugged work and her rough co-workers make her even more uncertain about where she fits in. While measuring trees, Lily sees a mysterious figure who disappeared into the forest years before. Is he a man or a myth? Everyone has a different opinion. With a logging protest looming, Lily’s coworker and sometimes-friend, Chaz—a young half-Haida man whose white father owns the logging camp—ditches his job thanks to his uncle’s influence. As she meets more locals and learns about the community, Lily discovers surprising secrets about her estranged mother’s time in the area—and that her connection to this place may not be what she thought. Do the rumours Lily keeps hearing about a mysterious hermit have anything to do with her? As more and more questions rise to the surface, Lily plunges deeper into the forest to find out. https://caitlinpress.com/Books/A/A-Room-in-the-Forest

Book cover for Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris (Stelliform Press), with a girl with yellow glowing eyes and plants growing out of her mouth silhouetted against a green moon. After the death of her estranged father, artist Rita struggles with grief and regret. There was so much she wanted to ask him—about his childhood, their family, and the Mi’kmaq language and culture from which Rita feels disconnected. But when Rita’s girlfriend Molly forges an artist’s residency application on her behalf, winning Rita a week to paint at an isolated cabin, Rita is both furious and intrigued. The residency is located where her father grew up. On the first night at the cabin, Rita wakes to strange sounds. Was that a body being dragged through the woods? When she questions the locals about the cabin’s history, they are suspicious and unhelpful. Ignoring her unease, Rita gives in to dark visions that emanate from the forest’s lake and the surrounding swamp. She feels its pull, channelling that energy into art like she’s never painted before. But the uncanny visions become more insistent, more intrusive, and Rita discovers that in the swamp’s decay the end of one life is sometimes the beginning of another.
https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/green-fuse-burning/

Book cover for The Green Line (خطّ التماس), a play by Makram Ayache, translated by Hiba Sleiman (Playwrights Canada Press), with an old-model car on a brown road driving towards a green area with a pool and water weeds, which dominate the picture and which are reflected mosaic-style. In the present day, Rami, a twentysomething queer Lebanese Canadian, has returned to the Lebanese mountains to bury his father. To cope with the weight of his grief, Rami, carrying a necklace in the shape of a phoenix left to him by his father, finds himself in a queer Beirut nightclub, where he catches the attention of a powerful drag queen named Fifi, who just so happens to be dressed as a phoenix. In 1978, in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, Naseeb is attempting to get himself and his sister Mona out of Beirut and into the safety of the mountains. Mona, however, is secretly in love with her classmate, a woman named Yara, and refuses to leave the city. When Naseeb becomes swept up with the descending political culture of the war around him, he creates a rift between himself and Mona greater than the line that divides the country itself. There will be a reading of this play at Noor Theatre, New York City, NY, August 1st. Winner, Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play 2022. Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Awards 2024. https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/T/The-Green-Line

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Kasia Jaronczyk @kasiajaronczyk.bsky.social · Jul 22

#summerreading #canlit #historicalfiction #prl #polishhistory #martiallaw #airplanehijacking #novel @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #polishgirl
On April 30, 1982, two women and their families hijack a Polish airplane to escape Martial Law in Communist Poland and find safety in West Berlin.

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · Jul 23

In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with Tracy Wai de Boer about her oxygen-rich poetry collection, Nostos ( @palimpsestpress.bsky.social), being biracial, why we are so fascinated by baleen, distilling poems to their pearliest bits, and more.

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Kasia Jaronczyk @kasiajaronczyk.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m thrilled to be reading at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival this September with all the amazing authors! Come and see me and I'd love to chat with you and sign copies! edenmillswritersfestival.ca/featured-wri... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #canlit #edenmillswritersfestival

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Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today on GET LIT: Jade Wallace and Mark Laliberte aka MA|DE. We discuss a bunch of things including their latest, ZZOO.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/yc5u7bzj

@nycterosea.bsky.social @marklalib.bsky.social @madeprojects.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Aug 15

"How am I supposed to show my son how to make friends, how to be a friend, if I myself do not know how?"

Read a longer excerpt from Shane Neilson's essay collection on fatherhood and neurodivergence WHAT TO FEEL, HOW TO FEEL (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social).

alllitup.ca/excerpted-what-to-feel/

The cover of Shane Neilson's What to Feel, How to Feel featuring a bright yellow book cover with a teal and black abstract circular pattern of dots and lines resembling a map.

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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Most Anticipated: Our 2025 Fall Poetry Preview with titles from @caitlinpress.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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Most Anticipated: Our 2025 Fall Poetry Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

Poetry to look forward to in the second half of 2025

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · Aug 20

I love when a new title is an event. @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

SADIQA DE MEIJER
IN THE FIELD
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · Aug 21

"Here we have the magic of Lost Signal, a book that resists certainties, denying that its meanings can ever be entirely found." Dawn Macdonald reviews LOST SIGNAL, #poetry by Chris Hutchinson, published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/chris-hutc...

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Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Author Karen Smythe joins me on episode 457 (!) of GET LIT. We talk about her newest, A Town With No Noise!

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on podcasts and here tinyurl.com/3zrzhjd5

@karensmythe.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

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