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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 19h

🍂 Join us for our FABULOUS fall in-person book launch at Supermarket in Toronto! 🍂 #TOevents #booklaunch #CanLit #fiction #memoir #poetry

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 19h

BIG 🙏Brooke Randel and @necessaryfiction.com. 🤩

Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 1d

Nadia Staikos discusses her debut novel UNTIL THEY SLEEP (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) with Brooke Randel necessaryfiction.com/interviews/t...

GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 2d

We LOVE your #ALUWomenAskingWomen feature @alllitupcanada.bsky.social! HUGE 🙏 for featuring these AMAZING women, including our very own Nadia Staikos.

All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 5d

Debut authors Rebecca Morris (OTHER MAPS, @llpmtl.bsky.social) and Nadia Staikos (UNTIL THEY SLEEP, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social) talk fairy tales and balancing writing with motherhood in our latest #ALUWomenAskingWomen.

alllitup.ca/women-asking-women-rebecca-morris-nadia-staikos

A graphic for All Lit Up’s Women Asking Women (Writers Asking Writers) series. On the top left side features Rebecca Morris, a light-skin-toned woman with curly salt-and-pepper hair wearing a black blazer and white top and smiling into the camera. On the bottom right is Nadia Staikos, a light-skin-toned woman with dark hair. She is resting her chin on her hand and looking into the camera. Text on the graphic reads: "Women Asking Women (Writers Asking Writers). Rebecca Morris and Nadia Staikos. Women’s History Month on ALU."

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 2d

BIG 🙏 from us too, @jtennant.bsky.social of Get Lit and Artsy Raven podcast host, JF Garrard!

Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been so much fun getting to do interviews to talk about A Place for People Like Us. thank you to the wonderful @jtennant.bsky.social of Get Lit for the wonderful questions, and to the wonderful JF Garrard of the Artsy Raven podcast for the wonderful conversations💗 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 2d

We ❤️The Sh#t No One Tells You About Writing Podcast! We also ❤️Bianca's interview with @danilabotha.bsky.social and their discussion about Danila's new Novel A PLACE FOR PEOPLE LIKE US.

Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 5d

The Sh#t No One Tells You About Writing Podcast is an invaluable resource for the writing community and I was honoured to get to do this interview with them about A Place for People Like Us and my writing career. theshitaboutwriting.substack.com/p/win-a-book...
💗📚 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

✨Win a Books With Hooks Critique; Why Writing While Working Full Time is Actually a Good Thing; & Juggling Life and the Muse✨

Plus, in this week's Books with Hooks, CeCe explains the exact plot point elements a query letter needs.

theshitaboutwriting.substack.com

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 9d

Wow, thank you so much to Rabbi Deborah Miller of the Jewish Book Council for this wonderful review of A Place For People Like Us
💗🧡🫶🏻📚🎉 @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-place...

A Place for People Like Us

With her new novel A Place For People Like Us, Danila Botha demonstrates her mastery in creating imperfect protagonists.

www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 7d

So grateful for Michelle Schingler of Foreword Review‘s thoughtful review “A young woman is molded by a charismatic friend and lover…A woman too often enrobed in other’s worldviews comes into her own in this weighty Bildungsroman”
www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/a-pl...
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Review of A Place for People Like Us

A Place for People Like Us: A young woman is molded by a charismatic friend and a new lover in the fraught coming-of-age novel "A Place for People Like Us". Hannah is determined to succeed at her pres...

www.forewordreviews.com

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 7d

✨It's a BIG day! Happy publication day to these beauties!✨ #CanLit #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #GuernicaPrizeWinner

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 9d

✨ Happy Publication Day ✨ to A PLACE FOR PEOPLE LIKE US by @danilabotha.bsky.social !

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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Word Problems," as you might guess, is from my forthcoming sophomore collection THE WORK IS DONE WHEN WE ARE DEAD, which will be out with @guernicaeditions.bsky.social in 2026.

THE BOOK OF JOBS was edited by Erin C Murphy and published by @oneart.bsky.social, so many thanks to them!

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Open Book @openbookon.bsky.social · Sep 8

🇨🇦📚 Looking for Ontario-based publishers that do it all? From fiction, to non-fiction, to poetry, to drama, we've got you covered! 📚🇨🇦

Part 2 of 4!

➡️ Featuring: @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Gordon Hill Press, and @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 16d

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Carol Krause's A Bouquet of Glass (pub. @guernicaeditions.bsky.social)!

...Awe and a sense of recognition still my brain and my body. I feel reverence for this poet’s ability to articulate the dark and light...

www.thetemzreview.com/earl-krause-...

The cover of A Bouquet of Glass, by Carol Krause. The background is a dark, warm greenish-brown. In the middle, lit from above, there is a bouquet of glass flowers in many different colors

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats @jamescasenl.bsky.social ✨

Jim Case @jamescasenl.bsky.social · 14d

I was just getting comfortable, sitting down to watch a new Britbox drama after some sushi and wine with my significant other, when I get an email from Guernica. See below. Give me a minute. I have to pick myself up off the floor.

GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 22d

📢🎆 Ta-da! The shortlist for the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction is ...🏆A HUGE congrats to our shortlist and to all the talented authors who submitted their manuscripts. Winner will be announced at our Dec. Launch. Stay tuned! #GuernicaPrize #literaryfiction #CanLit

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 9d

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams / @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams

Lynda Williams ’ stories have appeared in Grain , The Humber Literary Review , and The New Quarterly , among others. She holds a graduate c...

robmclennan.blogspot.com

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 15d

🍂 Join us for our FABULOUS fall in-person book launch at Supermarket in Toronto! 🍂 #TOevents #booklaunch #CanLit #fiction #memoir #poetry

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 16d

In our new blog post, Chas Halpern talks about the new audiobook for his novel, The Physics of Relationships. He dives into the journey of how he created it himself using voice-changing tech!

Check it out here: guernicaeditions.com/blogs/guerni...

#canlit #audiobooks #books

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 22d

📢🎆 Ta-da! The shortlist for the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction is ...🏆A HUGE congrats to our shortlist and to all the talented authors who submitted their manuscripts. Winner will be announced at our Dec. Launch. Stay tuned! #GuernicaPrize #literaryfiction #CanLit

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 24d

TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! Don't miss our September Launch at Supermarket. 💫 #CanLit #TOevents #booklaunch

GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · Aug 12

SAVE THE DATE! Sunday, Sept. 14 at 3:30 pm. We'll be at Supermarket to launch these beauties. #Torontoevents #bookreading #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #essays #CanLit

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · Sep 2

BIG 🙏from us too, Aviva Rubin of @theseaboardreview.ca

Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you so much to Aviva Rubin of The Seaboard Review for her thoughtful review of A Place for People Like Us @guernicaeditions.bsky.social
Intimate, fast paced, and full of complex, sympathetic, flawed not who they seem to be characters…the novel moves towards an unexpected and shocking ending”

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · Sep 2

✨We're still celebrating these beauties! Happy Pub Day! 🎂 @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @nicolavulpe.bsky.social #CanLit #fiction #Nonfiction #essays #poetry

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · Aug 29

🍂 What a FAB Fall Preview list @alllitupcanada.bsky.social 📚! 🙏 for including A PLACE FOR PEOPLE LIKE US by @danilabotha.bsky.social. Happy Reading! 🍂

All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · Aug 28

We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...

A collage graphic featuring the six featured books in the All Lit Up 2025 Fall Preview: Suddenly Light, War Resisters, A Place for People Like Us, Beaver Hills Forever, The Hunt, and Syncopation.

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Food, Books & Cat Lover @nadaloughead.bsky.social · Aug 15

I love discovering emerging Canadian authors and Cesca delivered. Thanks to @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social and @guernicaeditions.bsky.social for the review copy. Will follow this author to see what she writes next! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thrilled to see A Place For People Like Us on CBC Books list of 50 Canadian Fiction Books We’re Excited About This Fall, alongside by Ann Choi Elise Levine Michael Redhill Jen Sook Fong Lee, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Nina Dunic more 💗 www.cbc.ca/books/fictio... @guernicaeditions.bsky.social 💗📚🎉

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · Aug 22

Friday's review at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is from Cameron Miguel, on Tim Welsh's Ley Lines (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) - a hallucinatory meditation on the Western and "the rise of the twentieth century’s supposedly civilizing hegemony".

Ley Lines by Tim Welsh

There’s a fascinating cruelty in this.

strangehorizons.com

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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · Aug 15

🌊 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, October 11 @ 1PM 🌊 Our wonderful author Sophie Anne Edwards will be signing and speaking on her novels ‘Conversations With The Kagawong River’ and ‘A Mouth of Vowels’ at the Indigo at 1425 Kingsway in Greater Sudbury.

#CanLit #BookSigning #Indigo