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Short Talks is published by our pressmates at Brick Books, but they’re not on Twitter, so we’re doing the enthusiastic sharing here!
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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"Above the treeline is as blank as the inside of a wrist. Rock stays. Names stay. Names fell on him, hissing." A jubilant #TodaysPoem! Short Talk On Holderlin's World Night Wound by #NobelPrize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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📣 Fall 2026 📣 We’ve got a perfect pair of books lined up for fall: essays by Erin Wunker and poetry by Dani Spinosa! Read all about em over on our website - you can preorder there now, or do so via your favourite independent bookstore.
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✨📖 Congratulations to these recent alumni publications! If you're a Sage Hill alum who recently published, and your work hasn't yet been featured in our posts, please email [email protected]! Check out our Recent Publications page: sagehillwriting.ca/alumni/re…
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Acclaimed poet Dani Netherclift tries to capture the shape of absent bodies in VESSEL (@PressAssembly), a new and form-bending work of memoir. We interview the author right here on Open Book! #AmReading #Memoir #Nonfiction #Translation open-book.ca/News/Dani-Nethe…
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So nice to see The Mountains of Kong by Dag T. Straumsvåg on here!
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Thanks to excellent @robmclennanblog for interviewing me. We talked about what it’s like to be alive, my memoir Home Is Where We Start (@FigTreePenguin ), writing my novel The Orange Notebooks (@PressAssembly & @Ofmooseandmen ) & more... robmclennan.blogspot.com/202…
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The excellent Jonathan Crain interviewed me about my novel The Orange Notebooks (@PressAssembly & @Ofmooseandmen ). We talked about reclaiming the lost language of mourning, my hospital work, writing about bees, the colour orange, lost libraries & more. open.substack.com/pub/jonath…
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Poet and scholar Melanie Dennis Unrau excavates history and language in GOOSE (@PressAssembly ). Check out our interview with the author today! #AmReading #Poetry #CanLit #PoetryinPerspective open-book.ca/News/Melanie-De…
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Two mighty independent publishers, Assembly Press and Brick Books, have merged! Check out our coverage of this exciting development right here. #AmReading #Publishing #CanLit #News open-book.ca/News/Assembly-P…
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Big news day in these parts: we're joining forces with poetry champs Brick Books to become a Canadian publishing superpower! theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
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Congratulations to all the authors whose books are nominated to the 2025 Giller Prize longlist. We have a number of the titles already in our collection, ready for you to read. Find them at celalibrary.ca/2025Giller_Lo…
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Enormous congrats to @atbindusuresh on being longlisted for The Road Between Us!!!
Fourteen outstanding Canadian authors have been named to the 2025 #GillerPrize longlist! 📚 André Alexis for his short story collection Other Worlds, published by @McClellandBooks 📚 Mona Awad for her novel We Love You, Bunny, published by Scribner Canada 📚 Kirti Bhadresa for her short story collection An Astonishment of Stars, published by @ecwpress 📚 @eddyautomatic for his novel The Tiger and the Cosmonaut, published by Viking Canada 📚 @fannybritiche for her novel Sugaring Off, (translated by Susan Ouriou), published by @bookhugpress 📚 Joanna Cockerline for her novel Still, published by The Porcupine’s Quill 📚 Emma Donoghue for her novel The Paris Express, published by Harper Avenue 📚 Holly Kennedy for her novel The Sideways Life of Denny Voss, published by Lake Union Publishing 📚 @KnightEmmaL for her novel The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, published by Viking Canada 📚 Amanda Leduc for her novel Wild Life, published by @randomhouseca 📚 @jobitek for her novel We, The Kindling, published by Alchemy By @KnopfCA 📚 @atbindusuresh for her novel The Road Between Us, published by @PressAssembly 📚 Souvankham Thammavongsa for her novel Pick a Colour, published by @KnopfCA 📚 Ian Williams for his novel You’ve Changed, published by @randomhouseca Learn more at gillerprize.ca/the-giller-pr… #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature #canadianfiction #canadianshortstories
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Thanks to The Seaboard Review of Books for this incredibly thoughtful review of my novel, The Orange Notebooks, "a remarkable piece of writing." Out in North America with @PressAssembly and Uk @Ofmooseandmen ! theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-o…
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"The Orange Notebooks is stunning and luminous...a fiercely observed novel of shimmering beauty and loss, a deeply affecting meditation on ways that love can transcend unspeakable sadness.” Thanks for your beautiful words about my book @LuanneRice Out with @pressassembly now!
congratulations to brilliant @crossmansusanna on the north american publication of her new novel THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS!
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congratulations to brilliant @crossmansusanna on the north american publication of her new novel THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS!
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Today's episode of Turning Pages (11:30am CT on @UMFM ) features return guest Andrew Forbes discussing Field Work (@PressAssembly ). Stream/DL at the link: umfm.com/programming/broadca…
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