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Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions
@caitlinpress.bsky.social
An independent Canadian publisher based in BC • Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry • Dagger Editions is our imprint for queer women-identifying writers.
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
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!
#victoriabookprize2025
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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
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/...
#indigobooks #bestcanadianregionalbooks #bcbooks
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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
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
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
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.
#autismawareness
October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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
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
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
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
@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

#bookreading #literaryfestival #wots2025
September 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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.
September 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@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
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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
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
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
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