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A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals! Est. 2010.
@hollay.bsky.socialReposted by @riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialIn this NBN interview, I speak with Adriana Oniță about her poetry collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue (Palimpsest Press, 2026).
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@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social✨No-Strings Sex With Enough Strings to Furnish a Small Harp✨
—NetGalley review by Demetris Papadimitropoulos
Advanced readers are loving Dish by Kingston’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize award-winning author Nancy Jo Cullen!
@hollay.bsky.socialReposted by @riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialIn this NBN episode, I speak with Liz Johnston about her eagerly anticipated debut novel, The Fall-Down Effect (Book*hug, 2026).
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@riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialWe want to thank CBC Books for their excellent roundup of 24 Canadian books to read for World Mental Health Day, which includes three books we’ve been celebrating.
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@riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialOur stellar intern Aaliya Sylvia recently interviewed Sudbury-born author and attorney Elizabeth Urso about her thrilling new novel, Hail Mary (Rising Action, 2026).
You can read the full interview here:
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@sheelaghcaygill.bsky.socialReposted by @riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialYou can’t write if you don’t read. You need to absorb hundreds of thousands of words before you can write anything striking of your own -- writer and creative writing teacher Maria Cichosz on why reading voraciously matters:
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@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social@riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialWe’re heading into this long weekend with a heartening spread of comfort reads recommended to us by 5️⃣ award-winning and acclaimed authors from beloved publisher, Wolsak & Wynn.
These are books to help you escape the new cycle and hone in on some solace.
@hollay.bsky.socialReposted by @riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialIn this NBN episode, I speak with Ed Seaward about his thrilling novel, London Gothic (Dark Winter Press, 2026).
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@riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialSeasoned physicians Dr. Wilson and Dr. Jensen appeared on TVO’s The Rundown recently to talk about the shortage of family doctors and how they are using stories to encourage a future generation of family physicians.
@civilianreader.comReposted by @riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialNew excerpt: GROTESQUE by Elliott Dunstan (@fiversdream.bsky.social)...
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Out next week (Oct.13th), published by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social.
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@alexboydwriter.bsky.socialReposted by @riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialUpdates for Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life, including a link to a 10-minute podcast, a sample essay and a short piece on why I wrote the book.
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@riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialCongratulations to all the authors on the Giller Prize Shortlist, including Nicholas Herring’s Your Breath in Charcoal, published by Gooselane Editions!
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialLife doesn’t only happen in cities…
These 7️⃣ breathtaking books were featured on a recent @booktrib.bsky.social column celebrating stories set in rural Canada.
Thank you to contributor Michael Schmidt for spotlighting rural fiction. 🫶🏼
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@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social“When authors get together to gripe, they often gripe about this: people asking, ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ It’s posed at dinner parties and public readings and even in media interviews.“
Read the full interview Will Ferguson:
@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social“My Love is a Durian by Kelly Kaur is a powerful, stylistically diverse exploration of what it means to be a daughter, a rebel, and an activist. Like the durian, the poems are sharp-edged; they are also soft-centred, fragrant, and memorable.”
—Leesa Dean, THE WOODLOT
@hollay.bsky.socialReposted by @riverstreetwriting.bsky.socialIn just a couple days I’m scheduled to pop on over to Winnipeg for the 2026 Winnipeg Book Festival for two panels. 📚
🪻Misidentification on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
💕 In Short on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
