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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 2h

Photographer Richard Johnson worked professionally as an architectural photographer but in his personal creative practice, he was drawn to smaller, imperfect, utilitarian structures.

https://bit.ly/48hFPra

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 9h

House of Anansi Press has announced a restructuring of the company, including the formation of a new board of directors and a change in the management of House of Anansi and Groundwood Books. Full story at the link.

https://bit.ly/47fCZ50

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 4d

"Sem’s Map by Mi’kmaw author Rebecca Thomas, with illustrations by Plains Cree artist Azby Whitecalf, introduces readers to ways of thinking about place names and maps that may be different from what they’re used to," writes Allison Mills. https://bit.ly/488g1Oa #kidlit #review

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 5d

"The rooster is dreaming of a fox whose “colour was betwixe yelow and reed.”
An excerpt from This Is Orange by Rachel Poliquin and Julie Morstad https://bit.ly/46D4fKs #kidlit

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 6d

Telling Tales Festival this weekend, October 4 and 5, at Royal Botanical Gardens, Hendrie Park, Burlington. ON
tellingtales.org/festival-reg...

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 7d

Stephanie Sinclair and Sara Sinclair's "You Were Made for This World" tops this weeks Top 10 Canadian Books for Young Readers chart, and Sophie Escabasse's latest in her Witches of Brooklyn series is at 9.

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 7d

Saeed Teebi wanted to combat the powerlessness of witnessing the attacks on Gaza and felt that as a writer there was something else he could do. Shazia Hafiz Ramji reviews Teebi's memoir "You Will Not Kill Our Imagination"
https://bit.ly/3Itf6gV

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 7d

Check out the Alberta Book Publishing Award winners @abbookpub.bsky.social • bit.ly/3VKaG8q

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 7d

Submission deadline for The Carol Shields Prize:
carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/submissions
@carolshieldsprize.bsky.social

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 12d

Rick Wilks and Anne Millyard started Annick Press in 1975 in the basement of Millyard’s north Toronto home.
https://bit.ly/4gHjPbv

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 12d

In advance of Orange Shirt Day on Tuesday, Sept. 30, here are top-ranked titles by Canadian Indigenous authors with BISAC subjects Indigenous, Native American, and Turtle Island.

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 12d

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Assistant Editor @thistledownpress.bsky.social For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 13d

“Neve is an elegant, inviting writer whose narrative is infused with a poetic social passion.” ★review @matthewbehrens.bsky.social of 2025 Massey Lecture Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World by Alex Neve @houseofanansi.bsky.social
quillandquire.com/review/unive...

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 15d

Montreal-born David Szalay is one of 6 shortlistees for the 2025 Booker Prize bit.ly/3Izys3J “A bare-bones plot description does not do justice to Szalay’s literary achievement in the novel, which, as ever, is predicated upon his stylistic legerdemain.” ★ quillandquire.com/review/flesh...

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 19d

Still by Joanna Cockerline, longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize, is “a moving and insightful debut novel about sex work and street life.” https://bit.ly/3VWrNnm #GillerPrize

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 19d

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Publicist (Contract) - Simon & Schuster Canada. For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 19d

read an excerpt from Yolanda T. Marshall and Marianne Ferrer's new #kidlit book Brown Girl in the Snow

https://bit.ly/3VqKiAb

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 20d

Elsie Silver beats both a new Slow Horses novel and Elizabeth Gilbert's latest memoir to second spot on the Top 10 New Release chart

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 20d

Although Souvankham Thammavongsa wrote the first draft of her debut novel, Pick a Colour, in six weeks, the award-winning poet and short story writer says that the prospect of devoting herself to long-form fiction was daunting, and perhaps not for the reason one might expect. https://bit.ly/4n3J0qU

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 27d

Quill & Quire uses the Bookmanager list, which gathers sales data exclusively from 267 Canadian independent booksellers, as noted at the top of the list. Other media use different lists.

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 28d

New books by Louise Penny and Thomas King feature in this weeks Top 10 Canadian Fiction

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 28d

Montreal's Joie de Livres aims to take joy seriously
https://bit.ly/3VJvUmE

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · Sep 8

New on the Q&Q Job Board: Publicist, TEMP @HachetteCanada For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc

Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · Sep 4

read an excerpt from Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on Writing and Intuition by Dennis Lee at https://bit.ly/465FCEC

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · Sep 4

Have you ever wondered about the history of your street? My Street Remembers tells part of the story of Danforth Avenue in Toronto, and focuses on the stewardship of this area by the Mississaugas while also honouring all those who have gone before https://bit.ly/4ncT6p5 #Danforth

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