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Electric Lit named three Copper Canyon Press collections Best Poetry in 2025: WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME by LEILA CHATTI, THE NEW ECONOMY by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI, and I DO KNOW SOME THINGS by RICHARD SIKEN.
Check out the full list from Electric Lit at https://bit.ly/3XDVgUd.
Check out the full list from Electric Lit at https://bit.ly/3XDVgUd.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Electric Lit named three Copper Canyon Press collections Best Poetry in 2025: WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME by LEILA CHATTI, THE NEW ECONOMY by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI, and I DO KNOW SOME THINGS by RICHARD SIKEN.
Check out the full list from Electric Lit at https://bit.ly/3XDVgUd.
Check out the full list from Electric Lit at https://bit.ly/3XDVgUd.
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We're thrilled to see so many books from independent publishers on best-of-the-year lists! We're keeping tabs on all the books from Consortium publishers that are receiving end-of-year accolades here:
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November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We're thrilled to see so many books from independent publishers on best-of-the-year lists! We're keeping tabs on all the books from Consortium publishers that are receiving end-of-year accolades here:
www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...
www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...
We're thrilled to see so many books from independent publishers on best-of-the-year lists! We're keeping tabs on all the books from Consortium publishers that are receiving end-of-year accolades here:
www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...
www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We're thrilled to see so many books from independent publishers on best-of-the-year lists! We're keeping tabs on all the books from Consortium publishers that are receiving end-of-year accolades here:
www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...
www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...
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SURPRISE,WITCHES! Creature Publishing has created this fab companion oracle deck written by me for GODDESS OF FILTH. This little book has sold over 16k as an indie. But they need your help making it happen. Want a tarot reading with me? Now is your chance ✨
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November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SURPRISE,WITCHES! Creature Publishing has created this fab companion oracle deck written by me for GODDESS OF FILTH. This little book has sold over 16k as an indie. But they need your help making it happen. Want a tarot reading with me? Now is your chance ✨
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre...
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Congrats to ALISON C. ROLLINS, winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award for BLACK BELL!
BLACK BELL navigates what it means to be both invisible and spectacle Integrating metalwork, sonics, and more, this book is a meditation on freedom seeking.
Purchase your copy at https://bit.ly/4o3lFFt
BLACK BELL navigates what it means to be both invisible and spectacle Integrating metalwork, sonics, and more, this book is a meditation on freedom seeking.
Purchase your copy at https://bit.ly/4o3lFFt
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Congrats to ALISON C. ROLLINS, winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award for BLACK BELL!
BLACK BELL navigates what it means to be both invisible and spectacle Integrating metalwork, sonics, and more, this book is a meditation on freedom seeking.
Purchase your copy at https://bit.ly/4o3lFFt
BLACK BELL navigates what it means to be both invisible and spectacle Integrating metalwork, sonics, and more, this book is a meditation on freedom seeking.
Purchase your copy at https://bit.ly/4o3lFFt
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We're so thrilled to announce that Sleep Here, Wake There by Caio Zero is one of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2025! 📚🤩
This selection is curated by NYPL librarians and staff. See the full Best Books for Kids list here: www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
This selection is curated by NYPL librarians and staff. See the full Best Books for Kids list here: www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We're so thrilled to announce that Sleep Here, Wake There by Caio Zero is one of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2025! 📚🤩
This selection is curated by NYPL librarians and staff. See the full Best Books for Kids list here: www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
This selection is curated by NYPL librarians and staff. See the full Best Books for Kids list here: www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
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We’re excited to share some favorite in-stock books (and more) from Consortium publishers in this year’s gift guide! Find the perfect pick for the reader in your life (or yourself): t.e2ma.net/webview/thlh...
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We’re excited to share some favorite in-stock books (and more) from Consortium publishers in this year’s gift guide! Find the perfect pick for the reader in your life (or yourself): t.e2ma.net/webview/thlh...
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Thank you to the National Book Foundation and our Press community for an unforgettable night of literary community at the 76th National Book Awards!
Congrats to ROBIN MYERS, winner of the NBA for Translated Literature, and Patricia Smith, winner of the NBA in Poetry!
Congrats to ROBIN MYERS, winner of the NBA for Translated Literature, and Patricia Smith, winner of the NBA in Poetry!
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thank you to the National Book Foundation and our Press community for an unforgettable night of literary community at the 76th National Book Awards!
Congrats to ROBIN MYERS, winner of the NBA for Translated Literature, and Patricia Smith, winner of the NBA in Poetry!
Congrats to ROBIN MYERS, winner of the NBA for Translated Literature, and Patricia Smith, winner of the NBA in Poetry!
We’re excited to share some favorite in-stock books (and more) from Consortium publishers in this year’s gift guide! Find the perfect pick for the reader in your life (or yourself): t.e2ma.net/webview/thlh...
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We’re excited to share some favorite in-stock books (and more) from Consortium publishers in this year’s gift guide! Find the perfect pick for the reader in your life (or yourself): t.e2ma.net/webview/thlh...
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Out now! In this thoughtful profile by Urja Upadhyaya, U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE emerges as "a translator who treats languages as meeting places [and] a naturalist whose fieldwork is attention itself."
Read it now at https://bit.ly/48aa8hY
🎨 Multimedia artwork by Isabella Luna Damberger-Sheldon
Read it now at https://bit.ly/48aa8hY
🎨 Multimedia artwork by Isabella Luna Damberger-Sheldon
![A quote reads: "As a student editor with a key, [Sze] wrote . . . at night with the scent of eucalyptus in the air and water as metronome. That ritual, solitude, sensory detail, and a tool that answers to touch, prefigures the poet he became."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwn5i6sbtkldv63tijvuhivz/bafkreibnbbbeovprgbegrvzcijxobpudlff3fdrpwdk6fy2v2fkvxqlfby@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Out now! In this thoughtful profile by Urja Upadhyaya, U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE emerges as "a translator who treats languages as meeting places [and] a naturalist whose fieldwork is attention itself."
Read it now at https://bit.ly/48aa8hY
🎨 Multimedia artwork by Isabella Luna Damberger-Sheldon
Read it now at https://bit.ly/48aa8hY
🎨 Multimedia artwork by Isabella Luna Damberger-Sheldon
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Honoring THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER author Anjet Daanje and translator David McKay as finalists for the @nationalbook.bsky.social Award in NY ahead of the awards ceremony on Wednesday. In Daanje's stead, novelist @josephoneill.bsky.social read an excerpt of her work. newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Honoring THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER author Anjet Daanje and translator David McKay as finalists for the @nationalbook.bsky.social Award in NY ahead of the awards ceremony on Wednesday. In Daanje's stead, novelist @josephoneill.bsky.social read an excerpt of her work. newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
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Congratulations to What I Know About You, by Éric Chacour and translated by Pablo Strauss, for its nomination!
Learn more about What I Know About You: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...
Learn more about What I Know About You: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...
It’s here! The 2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominated Titles are out! ✨📚
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Congratulations to What I Know About You, by Éric Chacour and translated by Pablo Strauss, for its nomination!
Learn more about What I Know About You: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...
Learn more about What I Know About You: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...
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NEW 📗!
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)
In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil
"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)
In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil
"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press
"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin
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October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEW 📗!
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)
In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil
"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)
In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil
"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
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We'll be celebrating our 60th year until the end of the year and beyond. Head to chbooks.com to shop our latest titles and favourites from over the years, and check out our limited edition anniversary merch, featuring bpNichol's iconic laneway poetry, at chbooks.com/Merchandise!
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We'll be celebrating our 60th year until the end of the year and beyond. Head to chbooks.com to shop our latest titles and favourites from over the years, and check out our limited edition anniversary merch, featuring bpNichol's iconic laneway poetry, at chbooks.com/Merchandise!
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In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
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Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
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Nathan Whitlock speaks to Maggie Helwig about winning the Toronto Book Award, the clearing of the encampment at her church, and her long, ongoing writing career, which includes a new book out from us next spring!
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Spoiler for tomorrow’s episode.
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
Find it at all the podcast places.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
Find it at all the podcast places.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Nathan Whitlock speaks to Maggie Helwig about winning the Toronto Book Award, the clearing of the encampment at her church, and her long, ongoing writing career, which includes a new book out from us next spring!
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Back in print!
CG Moore’s TRIGGER is back again
White Raven Award 2025 winner 🥇
Children’s Book Council 2025 Favourites x3 🥇
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025 🥇
Kirk is Reviews Best YA Verse Novels list 2024 🥇
“Raw and fiercely gripping”: School Library Journal starred review 🌟
CG Moore’s TRIGGER is back again
White Raven Award 2025 winner 🥇
Children’s Book Council 2025 Favourites x3 🥇
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025 🥇
Kirk is Reviews Best YA Verse Novels list 2024 🥇
“Raw and fiercely gripping”: School Library Journal starred review 🌟
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Back in print!
CG Moore’s TRIGGER is back again
White Raven Award 2025 winner 🥇
Children’s Book Council 2025 Favourites x3 🥇
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025 🥇
Kirk is Reviews Best YA Verse Novels list 2024 🥇
“Raw and fiercely gripping”: School Library Journal starred review 🌟
CG Moore’s TRIGGER is back again
White Raven Award 2025 winner 🥇
Children’s Book Council 2025 Favourites x3 🥇
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025 🥇
Kirk is Reviews Best YA Verse Novels list 2024 🥇
“Raw and fiercely gripping”: School Library Journal starred review 🌟
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"Fuller is whimsical and self-deprecating . . . This openhearted memoir models how to explore and integrate with one's family history."
Thank you to Shelf Awareness (@shelf-awareness.com) for the starred review of Ren Cedar Fuller's BIGGER!
Thank you to Shelf Awareness (@shelf-awareness.com) for the starred review of Ren Cedar Fuller's BIGGER!
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"Fuller is whimsical and self-deprecating . . . This openhearted memoir models how to explore and integrate with one's family history."
Thank you to Shelf Awareness (@shelf-awareness.com) for the starred review of Ren Cedar Fuller's BIGGER!
Thank you to Shelf Awareness (@shelf-awareness.com) for the starred review of Ren Cedar Fuller's BIGGER!
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We are BEYOND delighted to have two nominations for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing!
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We are BEYOND delighted to have two nominations for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing!
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
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"Daanje unfurls a staggering modernist work of love, guilt, and the slippery nature of identity. It takes place in the years after WWI, when a woman recognizes an amnesiac veteran as her long-lost husband. The story grows increasingly complex."
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Daanje unfurls a staggering modernist work of love, guilt, and the slippery nature of identity. It takes place in the years after WWI, when a woman recognizes an amnesiac veteran as her long-lost husband. The story grows increasingly complex."
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
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We are delighted that The Paper Bridge has been nominated for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Illustration. A huge congratulations to Seng Soun Ratanavanh! 👏 Swipe to look behind the scenes of her incredible kirigami world.
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We are delighted that The Paper Bridge has been nominated for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Illustration. A huge congratulations to Seng Soun Ratanavanh! 👏 Swipe to look behind the scenes of her incredible kirigami world.
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
#Carnegies2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
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🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine on being shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Awards!!! #ALTA @littranslate.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine on being shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Awards!!! #ALTA @littranslate.bsky.social
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FOUR books from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards! Read about them in our latest newsletter:
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Library Express: 4 National Book Award Finalists
+ classic tales and great works of literary horror Header image from illustration by Zoe Persico for Tonight Is Krampus Night! by Kyle Sullivan (Hazy Dell Press, October 2025). Hot News This Week Octo...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
FOUR books from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards! Read about them in our latest newsletter:
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Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition is now available in paperback and hardcover!
André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.
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André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition is now available in paperback and hardcover!
André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.
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André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.
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FOUR books from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards! Read about them in our latest newsletter:
t.e2ma.net/webview/xs4a...
t.e2ma.net/webview/xs4a...
Library Express: 4 National Book Award Finalists
+ classic tales and great works of literary horror Header image from illustration by Zoe Persico for Tonight Is Krampus Night! by Kyle Sullivan (Hazy Dell Press, October 2025). Hot News This Week Octo...
t.e2ma.net
October 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
FOUR books from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards! Read about them in our latest newsletter:
t.e2ma.net/webview/xs4a...
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