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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 9h

Burlington Public Library has announced its festival line up!

Check it out!
www.bpl.on.ca/BurlLitFest

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 9h

a mid-week ringette practice for small one (skipping guides tonight because of it), so an opportunity to sit with Margo LaPierre’s Ajar, // @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 14h

@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @latitude46pub.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 1d

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 1d

It's wonderful to see Conor Mc Donnell on CP 24 this morning, talking about his new poetry collection!
www.cp24.com/video/2025/1...

New book by anesthesiologist looks at opioid crisis and medication safety

SickKids anesthesiologist Dr. McDonnell’s new book explores how language can illuminate the complexities of both medicine and the human experience.

www.cp24.com

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 3d

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/...

@radiantpress.bsky.social ✨

#canlit

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Sadiqa de Meijer @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.

A book cover with a landscape painting of a grewn foreground, yellow field, green treeline, the suggestion of a red-roofed house, blue sky. The text says: From the award-winning author of alfabet/alphabet Sadiqa de Meijer IN THE FIELD.

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talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · 4d

The fourth day of our fifteenth issue includes new poetry by Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social , Isabella Mori @moritherapy.bsky.social and Andrew Shields, and The art of writing #119: an interview with Terri Witek
talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone else remember Tour of the Universe at the CN Tower? ✨

I have a poem out in the new issue of talking about strawberries all of the time inspired by this attraction. 🍓

talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/holl...

And hey, I also have a chapbook coming out with Anstruther Press!

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 5d

Where they went I cannot name—
those liquefying emissaries
or my aunt’s wishes, whatever it was
that she held tight that morning—

—from Votive by Annick MacAskill, Gaspereau Press, 2024

Read the full excerpt:

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

@gaspereaupress.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 7d

Count on Me is a tender and absorbingly compelling novel that exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface.

You can read our full interview with author Ann Cavlovic here:

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

#eldercare

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 7d

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Bruce Hunter / @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/12-o...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Bruce Hunter

Bruce Hunter is an active writer, speaker and mentor. His award-winning novel In the Bear’s House was just rereleased by Frontenac House. I...

robmclennan.blogspot.com

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 11d

Day one of Toronto Word on the Street was a blast! Join us at tomorrow (Sunday, September 28th) for another day of bookish fun!

We’re celebrating Canadian books and authors at booth E27! 📚

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 12d

We’re at Word on the Street Toronto this weekend! That’s September 27th at 28th at David Pecaut Square, friends. 📚

Drop by our booth to say hi, enter giveaways, and talk books!

And it’s us, so we’ll probably have treats too. 😌

Hope to see you there!

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 13d

Toronto friends you won't want to miss this important event. Join us to celebrate the launch of Ewan Whyte's important essay collection, Mothers of Invention. October 7th, at the Toronto Arts and Letters Club, 7 pm. Ewan will be interviewed by documentary filmmaker Barri Cohen.

Book launch, Mothers of Invention by Ewan White. October 7, 7 pm Arts & Letter Club of Toronto, 14 Elm St.

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 12d

We're delighted to have this great early response for David Worsley of Words Worth Books in Waterloo. You can learn more about the book here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/bil...

Billy Crawford's Double Play by Brad Smith

In this wise-cracking, fast-paced novel, Brad Smith lampoons today’s scandal-ridden politics and politicians. But among the laughter, Smith also shows us there can be hope, and even integrity, where w...

bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 12d

A review of In the Bear’s House—the award-winning novel of disability and wildness by Bruce Hunter—by Ainsley Louie-Suntjens is in F(r)iction!

frictionlit.org/a-review-of-...

#disabilityinclusion

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 12d

A review of In the Bear’s House—the award-winning novel of disability and wildness by Bruce Hunter—by Ainsley Louie-Suntjens is in F(r)iction!

frictionlit.org/a-review-of-...

#disabilityinclusion

River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 14d

Check out this review of The Mad Dog and the Sea Dragon by Lisa De Nikolits, published by Inanna Publications. And thank you to TrainGeek.ca for the CanLit love!

www.traingeek.ca/wp/mad-dog-a...

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 15d

Happy publication to Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo published Book*hug Press.

Starry Starry Night is an innovative and revelatory work of autofiction from a celebrated voice in contemporary fiction.

bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

@bookhugpress.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 15d

Happy publication to Under the Full and Crescent Moon by Aamir Hussain, published by Dundurn Press! 🌙

In a battle of words and beliefs, a young woman must defend her city against zealotry during the Islamic Golden Age.

www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

@dundurnpress.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 16d

A Quilting of Scars by CanLit historical fiction icon Lucy E.M. Black is forthcoming October 15, 2025 with NoN Publishing!

This is a PERFECT autumn read—DM us to request a review copy. 🍁

nonpublishing.com/a-quilting-o...

#historicfiction

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Rosanna Battigelli, Author @robattigelli.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks, @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social for this interview On Creative Writing! ✍️ 😍

www.oncreativewriting.com/post/on-writ...

www.oncreativewriting.com

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 17d

Lorne Daniel’s new poetry collection, What Is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press) is a gift. From the perspective of the parents of an addict, his poems trace frustration, love, patience, and surrender we so often deny ourselves and each other.

www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/episodi...

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