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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 23h

“But my intention was not just to remark on the absurdity of our tech-saturated world. I also wanted to create my own.“
—Ben Zalkind, author of Honeydew.

Read the full interview. 🌟

www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/8/...

#speculativefiction #canadianliterature

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 5d

Do you live for books that bring on the chills and thrills? 👻 📖

Check out our list spooky season reads by Canadian authors.

Read the full list here:

www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/...

#spookyseason

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 8d

Read our new interview with Melanie Schnell about her novel, The Chorus Beneath Our Feet, forthcoming with Radiant Press, October 14, 2025.

www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/...

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#canlit

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Radiant Press @radiantpress.bsky.social · 10d

Edmonton folks, come out to a book launch at Audreys on Oct. 9 at 7 pm for Ben Zalkind's stellar debut. In the near future a group of citizens band together to fight the tech billionaire overlord who owns Substrate Inc.The struggle is real, as is the parody, in a world eerily similar to our own.

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Radiant Press @radiantpress.bsky.social · Sep 10

Great interviews! Thanks for hosting Hollay. Buy the books everyone!

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Howl @howl895fm.bsky.social · Sep 8

TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @hollay.bsky.social
talks to Natalie Lim about her debut poetry collection “Elegy For Opportunity” @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
Also on the show Melia Mclure talks about her book “All The World’s A Wonder” @radiantpress.bsky.social TOMORROW NIGHT!

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muskratmagazine.bsky.social @muskratmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 5

The title poem from What Shade of Brown?, the debut poetry collection from Nehiyawak-Métis poet @johnbradymcd.bsky.social, tackles issues of identity and belonging with incisive clarity. @radiantpress.bsky.social #indigenouspoetry #poetryreview #indigenousauthors

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Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca · Sep 2

Some good back to school news in Alberta as they chickened out on their wide-ranging book ban.

I doubt this fight is over though.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta government pauses ban on school library books with sexual content | CBC News

The Alberta government is hitting pause on its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries.

www.cbc.ca

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 1

Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · Aug 21

Feast your peepers on a few of the books on The 49th Shelf’s Most Anticipated Fall Fiction list!

What do they have in common? Other than all being published by awesome Canadian small presses, we have review copies of every single one!

See the full list here:

49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/07...

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Aug 14

Artist and poet Zachari Logan merged his art forms when, during a sketchbook project that only utilized green pens and pencils, he started to see a confluence between the drawings and his writing. The two became his new collection, GREEN (@radiantpress.bsky.social).

alllitup.ca/beautiful-bo...

The cover of Zachari Logan's poetry collection "Green", where the title and author's name are rendered in vibrant fuchsia-red against a green paper background. The author is quoted to say: "...the book's cover - it's title, Green, scrolled in a rosy red, repeated in the book's centre, a consequence of the sketchbook's own design. Within the collection of studies, there are two of saints being 'flayed'...all rendered in greens rather than the reds and flesh tones of human violence we would typically associate."

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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · Aug 14

Next Thursday I get to chat with Nicole Haldoupis about writing, starting her PhD program and what’s next after her beautiful novella TINY RUINS was published in 2020.

Join us @junctionreads over on Instagram. 7:00pm ET.

@radiantpress.bsky.social @nicolehaldoupis.bsky.social

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Aug 6

Unpublished writers!

If you’re getting ready to submit your manuscript, this guide from our friends at @bookhugpress.bsky.social breaks down what to expect, from pitch to publication.

alllitup.ca/in-house-dem...

A graphic with clouds and illustrated book icons labelled "Demystifying Publishing, How to Submit a Manuscript to a Publishing House"

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SaskBooks @skbooks.com · Aug 6

The Suspension Bridge by Anna Dowdall (@radiantpress.bsky.social ) is the first Sister Harriet Mystery. Sister Harriet is a nun and a teacher in Ontario who gets involved in solving the disappearance of three girls in the 60s. Read the review at reviews.skbooks.com/suspension-b...

Suspension Bridge, The

The Suspension Bridgeby Anna DowdallPublished by Radiant PressReview by Brandon Fick$25.00 ISBN 9781998926121 Anna Dowdall’s mysterious, allegorical novel The Suspension Bridge has the subtitle, “A…

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lpgcanada.bsky.social @lpgcanada.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congratulations to the finalists for the 37th Annual @lambdaliterary.org Awards, including LPG members @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social, @playcanpress.bsky.social, @radiantpress.bsky.social & @sciroccodrama.bsky.social

A graphic for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards featuring LPG finalists, set against a pink watercolour background. The text reads "2025 Lambda Literary Awards LPG finalists" in bold black and lavender letters. Below the text are seven book covers.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jul 31

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachari Logan / @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachari Logan

Zachari Logan is a queer Canadian settler poet and artist whose artwork has been exhibited throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Logan...

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Jul 28

"The tiger's contour in contrast

is unweathered. Black lines drawn
almost too thin for any earthly hand."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Tiger by Zachari Logan from Green (2025 @radiantpress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/42948rm5

Poetry collection Green by Zachari Logan (Radiant Press) sits amidst velvety dark purple petunias against a dark brown fence

Poem "The Tiger" from the poetry collection Green by Zachari Logan sits amidst velvety dark purple petunias against a dark brown fence

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Jul 29

Loved Suzy Krause's I THINK WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE (@radiantpress.bsky.social)?

We put together a list of four follow-up reads for when you're in the mood to feel a little unsettled (in a good way).

#alubookclub

alllitup.ca/alu-summer-b...

A photo of the book cover of I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause on top of grass. Overlaid text reads "What to Read Next?"

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lpgcanada.bsky.social @lpgcanada.bsky.social · Jul 24

🌾 I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause (@radiantpress.bsky.social)

A heartwarming take on the end of the world, this dream-inspired novel (and our July Book Club pick!) is optioned for a TV series!

alllitup.ca/books/i-thin...

#lpg50 #canlit #canadianbooks #alu #canadianauthors

A 50 Books for 50 Years graphic featuring the cover of I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause. The cover features a collage with a large yellow moon over a vertical black strip filled with stars, beside an orange-to-yellow gradient background. Below is a black-and-white photo of two people walking down a road with billowing smoke clouds in the distance. The title is in bold black letters, and the author’s name appears at the bottom in white, with “Bestselling author of Sorry I Missed You” in light blue and white. The text reads: “Literary Press Group of Canada, Celebrating 50 Years Supporting Literature. Radiant Press.”

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Jul 22

On the third week of #alubookclub we chat about our July pick I THINK WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE by @suzykrause.bsky.social (published by @radiantpress.bsky.social).

We all agreed: this book made us emotional in the very best way.

alllitup.ca/alu-summer-b...

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Angel T. Dionne @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social · Jul 17

I’m thrilled to announce that Garden-Body. has been accepted for publication with Saskatchewan’s award-winning little press on the prairie, @radiantpress.bsky.social!

I’m looking forward to working with the whole Radiant team!

Look for it in fall 2026!

#booksky

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Jul 8

"This book is exactly the type of story we want to publish."

We talk to publisher @radiantpress.bsky.social about our July #ALUbookclub pick I THINK WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE by @suzykrause.bsky.social

alllitup.ca/alu-summer-book-club-intro-to-i-think-weve-been-here-before/

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freefallmagazine.bsky.social @freefallmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 7

New Review of @hollay.bsky.social Hollay Ghadrey's Rebellion Box by@KathrynMacDonald and @radiantpress.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ho...

Review of Hollay Ghadery's "Rebellion Box" | FreeFall Magazine

By Kathryn MacDonald Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery Radiant Press (2023) Perhaps one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Rebellion Box

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · Jul 6

Since A Simple Carpenter by Dave Margoshes appeared on scene a little over a year ago, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen about how extraordinary it is—and I’m thrilled to get to share it with listeners at The New Books Network.

newbooksnetwork.com/a-carpenter

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SaskBooks @skbooks.com · Jun 11

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel...like this book is better than fine. I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause (@radiantpress.bsky.social tackles the heavy subject of the end of the world from the human angle, with wit and warmth. Review: reviews.skbooks.com/i-think-weve...

I Think We’ve Been Here Before

I Think We’ve Been Here Beforeby Suzy KrausePublished by Radiant PressReview by Brandon Fick$25.00 ISBN 9781998926220 The biggest compliment I can give to Suzy Krause’s I Think We’ve Been Here Befo…

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