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Join John Lazarus for the launch of Two Ways About It on Wednesday, January 17 at 7:00 pm at the Novel Idea Booksore.

Kingston folks! Don't miss the launch of Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting by John Lazarus!

A suggestively romantic first-encounter from Kristen Da Silva's play WHERE YOU ARE (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) closes out our final day of : get comfy and tune in for a reading from the playwright herself at the link.

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Indie publishers: ‘I make enough money to put out books but not enough to pay myself’ Small publishers across Ontario mortgage their homes and work without pay to tell stories that give voice to the voiceless

We'd like to extend our gratitude to the Scirocco Drama for their sponsorship of the Carol Bolt Award! Your support is truly appreciated—thank you! ✨😀

It's the this Sunday, so we're taking a look at ten literary friendships from fiction, plays, memoir, and more.

https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2023/Top-10-Literary-Friendships

Our series continues, this time, with a special guest recommender who really knows his stuff. Playwright and actor David Yee recommends eight plays by Asian playwrights, from Talonbooks, Playwrights Canada Press, and Scirocco Drama.

https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2023/Asian-Heritage-Month-Drama-Spotlight-with-guest-recommender-David-Yee

It's more vital than ever to commemorate and celebrate today's . These 20 books by talented trans and nonbinary writers are one place to start. 🏳️‍⚧️

https://alllitup.ca/Lists/Trans-Day-of-Visibility-Reads

Winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards, Edmonton Book Prize & Golden Pen Award Winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards, Edmonton Book Prize & Golden Pen AwardBy Ellen Kartz on June 4, 2020 in News, UncategorizedThe Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. We are a...

Congratulations to Scott Nolan for his nomination for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book.

Congratulations to everyone longlisted for the 2020 Stephen Leacock Award -- especially our own Mark Crawford, nominated for The New Canadian Curling Club!

Stephen Leacock Associates Our membership year runs from April 1 to March 31 of the following year.   When you renew now, your membership will be paid up until March 31, 2021.

Congratulations to Scott Nolan and all the other nominees for being shortlisted in the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba

You can read the full shortlist here: https://manitobabookawards.com/index.php/en/2-uncategorised/66-media-release-april-17-2021

All Lit Up featured Scott Nolan as part of their DiscoverVerse series for National Poetry Month. Click to read ALU's interview with Scott and the poem "Yellow Lights of Moray" from his book 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.

DiscoverVerse: Scott Nolan + Moon Was a Feather Around his 40th birthday in 2015, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Scott Nolan set out to replace smoking ci******es with walking ten kilometres a...

Congratulations to Tara Beagan, whose play Honour Beat was just short listed for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama!

2020 Alberta Literary Awards and City of Edmonton Book Prize Finalists Announced 2020 Alberta Literary Awards and City of Edmonton Book Prize Finalists AnnouncedBy Ellen Kartz on April 14, 2020 in News, UncategorizedThe Writers’ Guild of Alberta is excited to announce the finalists for the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards and Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Each year,...

Lara Rae talks about Mark Crawford's delightful play "Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures" as part of AMPB's extended I Love to Read Month!

We're back with more extended I Love To Read Month goodness! Today we have author Lara Rae discussing two titles: "Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures" by Mark Crawford (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) and "The Gift Is in the Making: Anishinaabeg Stories" by Leanne Simpson (HighWater Press)!

Mark Crawford's "Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures" makes a serious business of play as a useful and safe avenue into gender comfortability. Kids will relate to the simple message of exploration while parents will be pleased at the non-judgmental and grounded approach to our new gender fluid reality. Published by J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, for ages 9 to 12.
For more info, or to purchase a copy: https://www.jgshillingford.com/shop-books/boys-girls-and-other-mythological-creatures/

For those of us reared on Aesop and Grimm, "The Gift Is in the Making: Anishinaabeg Stories" by Leanne Simpson and illustrated by Amanda Strong is a literary present. As well as immersing the reader in indigenous myths and cosmology this slim and entertaining volume is a mini primer in Anishinaabeg terminology. So, hop in your jiimaanan (canoe) and paddle through this sea of sweet, sad and strong stories. HighWater Press, for grades 5–9. For more info, or to purchase a copy: https://highwaterpress.com/product/the-gift-is-in-the-making/

To see all other I Love To Read Month posts: http://ambp.ca/i-love-to-read-month

Thrilled to see Katherena Vermette's collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, included on this list of top 10 books by Manitoba writers from the previous decade!

Picking 10 best Manitoba books of last decade no easy feat Is it a fool’s errand to try and put together a list of the 10 best, or most important, or most impactful, Manitoba books of the decade? By what measuring stick can these 10 titles be sized up — awards received? Critical acclaim? Widespread recognition or sales figures? Cultural impact? Staying ...