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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Tune in for long weekend listening w/ CBC All Points West host Jonathan D’Souza and Victoria, BC poet Lorne Daniel. 🍁

You can also read Lorne’s exclusive, ADDICTION, FAMILY, AND THE STORY BEHIND LORNE DANIEL’S WHAT IS BROKEN BINDS US, on our blog.

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CBC INTERVIEW:
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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 2d

“But my intention was not just to remark on the absurdity of our tech-saturated world. I also wanted to create my own.“
—Ben Zalkind, author of Honeydew.

Read the full interview. 🌟

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

#speculativefiction #canadianliterature

@radiantpress.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 4d

The cool kids are reading poetry. 😎

The 3 titles here—Ajar by Margo LaPierre, The Book of Interruptions by Khashayar Mohammadi and What We Know So Far Is… by Conor Mc Donnell—were all on CBC Books fall poetry list!

Want to review a copy? Drop us a line:

www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 5d

In this NBN episode, I speak with Guelph, Ontario author Karen Smythe about her remarkable new novel, A Town With No Noise (Palimpsest Press, 2025).

Listen to the conversation:

newbooksnetwork.com/a-town-with-...

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

#books

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Jen Raw @leftoverjen.bsky.social · 5d

So great to see The Midnight Project as part of this spooky roundup!

River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 5d

Such a great novel!

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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...

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 17d

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 · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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