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Assembly Press
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Independent publisher of ambitious literature.
“The lagoon in February is a plate of bubbled glass, with twigs, sandwich wrappers, and plastic bags trapped in the ice”

Happy Groundhog Day! Relative to Wind is on sale today only to try to manifest both an early spring and early start to boating season! assemblypress.ca/shop/relativ...
Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community
A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear. In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of…
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February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Lovely to see @quillandquire.bsky.social include DO IT WRONG in their spring 2026 previews: quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp...

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January 29, 2026 at 7:53 PM
📣 Coming April 2026 📣 Do It Wrong by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
is a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas, and approaches to writing and teaching poetry.

Preorder your copy now from us, your fav book shop, or request it from your library! 📚

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January 23, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!
January 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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Acclaimed poet Dani Netherclift tries to capture the shape of absent bodies in VESSEL (@pressassembly.bsky.social), a new and form-bending work of memoir. We interview the author right here on Open Book!
#AmReading #Memoir #Nonfiction #Translation
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Dani Netherclift Tries to Capture the Shape of Absent Bodies in VESSEL
Our featured title today, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (Assembly Press), is a unique, genre-bending work of memoir, literature, history, and ...
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January 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Happy North American pub day to @dani-netherclift.bsky.social and the long and gorgeous essay that is Vessel!

“Lyrical and allusive, Vessel is a memoir about a personal tragedy and a moving meditation on what remains of the dead.”—starred review, Foreword Reviews

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January 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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I cannot recommend this amazing elegiac lyric essay enough. @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a stunning writer (and person) 🧡🧡🧡
📣 Coming January 2026 📣 Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a lyric bricolage of memoir, image, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes.

Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
📣 Coming March 2026 📣 Nightshade by Lynn Hutchinson Lee is a gorgeous, Gothic coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt.

Available for preorder now from our very own website or your fav place to buy books.
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!
Do It Wrong - Assembly Press
A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry
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December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
📣 Coming January 2026 📣 Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a lyric bricolage of memoir, image, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes.

Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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4/4 Fine print: Canadian orders only, free titles are dealer’s choice, the more books you order, the more books you get for free, they reserve the right to dial this back if it gets out of hand. Sale runs Dec 1 - 19.

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December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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3/4 Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Canadians only.

@pressassembly.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingcommunity #booklovers #booktok #bogo
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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2/4 Images stolen from their email, obvs. Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only.

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December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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1/4 Bonus #SmallPress #books post! I just saw this: get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only.

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December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Thanks to excellent @robmclennan.bsky.social for interviewing me. We talked about what it’s like to be alive, my memoir Home Is Where We Start (Penguin), writing my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social) & more... robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susanna Crossman
Susanna Crossman  [photo credit: Morgane Michotte] is an essayist and award-winning fiction writer. Her acclaimed memoir, Home is Where We S...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Indie publishers @pressassembly.bsky.social & Brick Books merged operations a month ago. Today, they share a little about what led to their decision and how the early days of working as one have taken shape.

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November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Need to fill the next few days before the World Series starts? How about some baseball books from Canadian writers? 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WorldSeries #CanLit
Books to Read at the World Series · Lists · 49th Shelf
Okay, Blue Jays! Let's play ball.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Nothing like a Monday morning hard launch: Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations.

More details on our website!
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Phoebe Wang's most recent book is Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community, published by Assembly Press. Kirkus called it “a thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."

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Listen to our conversation:
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Phoebe Wang
Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 10/13/2025 · 31m
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October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM