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Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions
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An independent Canadian publisher based in BC • Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry • Dagger Editions is our imprint for queer women-identifying writers.
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Beyond Blue was named a finalist in the anthology genre! Congratulations to all the contributors and editors @christinamyers.bsky.social and Oga Nwobosi! Get your copy on our website or anywhere books are sold! #canadianbookclubawards
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Barbara Black on winning the Victoria Book Prize last night! In Little Fortified Stories, award-winning writer Barbara Black conjures a microcosm of characters that defy convention. Get your copy on our website or anywhere books are sold!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Upcoming event in Powell River! Joline Martin will be reading from her book, War Resisters at the Powell River Library on December 7th from 2 to 4 pm. Books will be on sale by Pocket Books. #bookreading
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Congratulations to Christine Lowther and Al Rempel on their books making the Indigo Best Canadian Regional Books of 2025 for BC! Get your copies on our website or www.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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To attend the virtual reading of Queer Country Crossroads for for South/West Ontario, please register at www.crowdcast.io/c/tobu6zxxy8m0 See you there! #virtualbookreading
October 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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To attend the virtual reading of Queer Country Crossroads for East Canada, please register at www.crowdcast.io/c/clmtl64exwot
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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We will have readings of poetry and short essays from Queer Country Crossroads from various contributors across Eastern Canada. Please register at www.crowdcast.io/c/4i0li87uay16 See you there! #virtualbookreeading
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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This Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month in Canada, find this beautiful collective memoir on our website or your closest bookstore.
Dispatches from Ray's Planet draws on Ray and Claire's correspondence to tell the story of two siblings from two very different planets.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Join us for a virtual reading of Queer Country Crossroads with Mabe Kyle, Jude Bialik, Reanna Thiessen , Raegan Cote, Petra Eikelenboom, Jay Fuller Evans, Dennis Hawkins-Bogle, Holly Stone, Candie Tanaka, and Jaik Josephson. Visit www.crowdcast.io/c/o31d01v88q1z to sign up!
October 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Successful events for Queer Country Crossroads so far including readings from Mabe Kyle and other contributors. Our next event is tomorrow at the People's Co-op on Commercial Drive. See you there! #bookreadings
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Burning Sage by Meghan Fandrich is now available as an ebook!
This poetry collection shares Meghan’s deeply personal story of the Lytton fires, the ensuing trauma, and the path out of it.
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Get your copy now wherever ebooks are sold! #ebookrelease #canadianbookstagram
September 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Happy Book Release Day to Bloom! This memoir-in-letters by Nicole Breit and Claire Sicherman is available on our website and everywhere books are sold! Get your copy now!
September 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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@elizabethruth.bsky.social will read at the Ontario Creates Vibrant Voices stage at Word on the Street Toronto this Sunday, September 28th at 2:45 pm with Ronna Bloom and Damian Tarnopolsky as part of The Medicine of Words: On Narrative & Healing

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Image includes the following text: Elizabeth Ruth at WOTS 2: 45 pm: The Medicine of Words: On Narrative & Healing A story can be a powerful force for healing. This idea has found its way into the medical field, with disciplines like narrative-based medicine seeking to understand the accounts of patients the same way we understand works of literature. How far does this healing modality go? Can poetry and other narrative forms of creative work be, quite literally, good for our health? Join authors Ronna Bloom, Elizabeth Ruth, and Damian Tarnopolsky as they discuss all that lies at the intersection of storytelling and medicine. Ontario Creates Vibrant Voices Stage, September 28th, 2025 Image includes the book cover, which has the digital drawing of a green hummingbird on purple mountains and the text "This Report is Strictly Confidential" and "Elizabeth Ruth" Below, there is a picture of the author, a woman in a short hair cut wearing black and leaning against a white column.
September 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Starting next week, we will have multiple events in BC for Queer Country Crossroads! Editor Mabe Kyle and contributors to the anthology will read in Victoria at the @friendsofdorothy.bsky.social and in Vancouver at Cross and Crows and the People's Co-Op bookstore.
Starting next week, we will have multiple events in BC for Queer Country Crossroads! Editor Mabe Kyle and contributors to the anthology will read in Victoria at the Friends of Dorothy Lounge on October 1st at 3 pm and in Vancouver at Cross and Crows on October 2nd at 7 pm and the People's Co-Op bookstore on October 7th at 6.30 pm. Please spread the word and bring your friends and family to these very fun, very queer events! 📚 Queer Country Crossroads is an anthology of nonfiction stories and poems written by and for rural 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. Fifty writers, poets, and artists from across Canada share personal stories that explore themes from coming of age and isolation to community and home. #bookreadings #queerbookstagram
September 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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@danielaelza.bsky.social will be launching her latest memoir, Is This An Illness or An Accident at the SFU Teck Gallery on September 24th, 2025 at 7 pm. The event will be moderated by Bonnie Nish and @angelarebrec.bsky.social. @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social will sell at the event.
September 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We are so excited that Caitlin Press authors will be at Word Vancouver this weekend! @danielaelza.bsky.social, @arleenpare.bsky.social, Kate Braid, and Tariq Malik will be reading at different events on September 20th. Please visit the Word Vancouver website for more information! See you there!
September 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Informed by her observations and evaluations of hundreds of jobs, ergonomist @janebyers.bsky.social's Coming Home From The Candy Factory shines a spotlight on the physical labour that often leads to workplace injuries.
Get your copy of the book at caitlinpress.com/Books/C/Comi...
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Congratulations Barbara Black on being shortlisted for the Victoria Book Prize!
In Little Fortified Stories, award-winning writer Barbara Black conjures a microcosm of characters that defy convention. Get your copy at caitlinpress.com/Books/L/Litt...
September 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Caitlin Press will be selling books from our back and front lists at Word Vancouver on September 20th, 2025 from 11 am to 5 pm. We will be at Table E5 at the rink level of UBC Robson Square. See you there! #wordvancouver2025
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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In his first collection of free verse since 2009, award-winning poet John Barton reflects on his childhood in Alberta, coming of age as a gay man during the AIDS pandemic, and the contrary forces that shape a life. Pre-order your copy at caitlinpress.com/Books/C/Comp...
September 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Upcoming September Events including readings and launches from John Barton, Arleen Pare, Daniela Elza, and Kate Braid! Visit our events page at caitlinpress.com/Events for more information! #fallbookreadings #booklaunches
Arleen Paré at Upstart and Crow 1387 Railspur Alley, Vancouver Sep 17 06:30 pm Arleen Paré will read at Upstart and Crow, Vancouver, from her latest poetry collection, Encrypted, a tribute to family and youth in a time of complex anxiety and loneliness. She will be in conversation with poet, Raoul Fernandes. Event is free and open to the public. Upstart and Crow will sell books at the event. Daniela Elza at SFU Teck Gallery SFU Teck Gallery, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver Sep 24 07:00 pm Daniela Elza will be launching her latest memoir, Is This An Illness or An Accident at the SFU Teck Gallery on September 24th, 2025. The event will be moderated by Bonnie Nish and Angela Rebrec. Cross and Crow Books will sell at the event. John Barton at SFU Lunch Poems SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver Sep 17 12:00 pm John Barton will read as part of the SFU Lunch Poems in September. The event is free but you must register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-poems-presents-john-barton-pauline-le-bel-online-tickets-1607383670829?aff=livewhale John Barton at Planet Earth Poetry Russell Books, 747 Fort Street Sep 26 07:00 pm John Barton will be reading at Russell Books with Planet Earth Poetry on September 26th at 7 pm. Please visit https://planet-earth-qqev.squarespace.com/september-2025 for more information. Arleen Paré at Word Vancouver: Tending the Unspoken UBC Robson Square Sep 20 12:30 pm From encrypted histories and systemic weight to ancestral echoes and quiet acts of gratitude, this poetry reading brings together four distinct yet intertwined voices in Canadian literature. Join us for an evening that opens the silences, gives shape to resilience, and asks what it means to carry stories through the body and beyond. Location: Poetry Tent, UBC Robson Square Host: Renée Saklikar Kate Braid at Word Vancouver: Notes on Becoming: A Conversation Across Memoir UBC Robson Square Sep 20 12:30 pm Two acclaimed writers reflect on the complexities of identity and legacy in their powerful new works. Join us as moderator Kaile Shilling engages Kate Braid and Charlotte Gill in a rich conversation sure to be filled with tender insights. Location: Room 485, UBC Robson Square Type: Panel, Reading, Fiction Moderator: Kaile Shilling Readers: Kate Braid, The Erotics of Cutting Grass: Reflections on a Well-Loved Life (Caitlin Press) | Charlotte Gill, Almost Brown (Penguin Random House Canada) Daniela Elza at Word Vancouver: Between Belongings HSBC Hall, UBC Robson Square Sep 20 03:30 pm Author Daniela Elza and writer Taslim Jaffer explore the complexities of identity, heritage, and home in this intimate conversation. Through essay, non-fiction and memoir, they reflect on cultural memory, personal transformation, and what it means to belong — in one place or many. Join moderator Esmeralda Cabral for a thoughtful session that moves between the lyrical and the lived, the personal and the universal. Location: HSBC Hall, UBC Robson Square Moderator: Esmeralda Cabral Readers: Daniela Elza, Is This an Illness or an Accident? (Caitlin Press) | Taslim Jaffer,editor, Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home (co-edited with Omar Mouallem Book*hug Press)
September 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Six years ago, @joannastreetly.bsky.social's two stepsons and their boat disappeared into the ocean on an eerily calm night. All of Us Hidden begins with poems that inhabit Tla-o-qui-aht traditional territory.
Pre-order your copy now at caitlinpress.com/Books/A/All-... or anywhere books are sold!
September 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Konosuke Masuda bridges past and present as he recounts his desperate journey, brought to life in translation by his granddaughter, Keiko Honda
The Broken Map Home is a powerful account of suffering and resilience.
Pre-order now at caitlinpress.com/Books/T/The-... or anywhere books are sold!
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Secwepemc Knowledge Keeper Cecilia DeRose and Sage Birchwater spoke to Shelley Joyce on CBC Radio West about Cecilia's memoir One Arrow Left. Listen to the full interview here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Their interview begins at 37:02 #canadianmemoirs
September 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Check out Anna Maskerine's (author of Beneath My Scars) favourite book reading spot featured in alllitup.ca/hot-days-coo...
August 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM