We're having a spring launch! Five of our authors are coming to Toronto & Windsor in May and we couldn't be more excited!

Only 5 spots remain!

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Day 21 is Michael Ondaatje’s poem, “The Cinnamon Peeler.” I love it more than I can even say…for so so so many reasons.
#TodaysPoem

Honored to be a part of this collection. Grateful to (The Lesser-Known) Luke Wilson for editing and putting this project together!

Congratulations to LPG members Biblioasis, Book*hug Press, & ECW Press whose books have been shortlisted for TWUC's 27th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award!

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Congrats to all the finalists for the 2023 #DanutaGleedLiteraryAward for the best 1st short story collection by a Canadian author. Special shout-out to my pub mate Biblioasis, Lisa Alward Lisa Alward. #canlit #literaryfiction #shortstories

Workshop alert! Join us for a day long writing workshop with Deborah Schnitzer! Limited spots!

To register: prairiefire.ca/shop/a-writing…

VERY heavy hitters. I'm still gobsmacked to also have my book included. Congrats Jessica! I'm reading Bad Cree now and loving it.

What a day!! 🥲 Thank you Governor General of Canada & Canada Council for the Arts for celebrating 4 YEARS of #GGBooks winners today. 🇨🇦📚🇨🇦 #WritingCommmunity #CanLit

Congrats to fiction writers Helen Elaine Lee and Ani Kayode Somtochukwu and all the other winner’s of this year’s Publishing Triangle awards Publishing Triangle.

I’m thrilled to find Dreaming Home on the Kobo shortlist, along with titles by Anuja Varghese, Author of CHRYSALIS Jessica Johns Christina Wong, Jamaluddin Aram, Kai Thomas, Daniel Innes. Loved these new voices and their incredible books. #literaryfiction #canlit #books

Congrats to fiction writers and Lambda Literary Award finalists Justin Torres, Bryan Washington, Khashayar J. Khabushani, Patrick E. Horrigan Richard Mirabella🦌. And to all the finalists in the other categories.

Just had an amazing panel discussion with dalecorvino, Patrick Earl Ryan, Andrew Holleran and Alan Williams here in New Orleans Saints + Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival. On the power and pitfalls of nostalgia in fiction. #queerlit #books #WritingCommunity

Poets, get your collections ready!

Biblioasis will be opening for submissions of poetry manuscripts on Wednesday, May 1st, and will remain open until Friday, May 31st, or we reach two hundred submissions—whichever comes first🖤

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Our inaugural contest is now open! We’ve tried our best to make it writer-friendly. Details on our website.

Please share🌻

Winnipeg Poets! Writes of Spring wants to see your work!

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Huge congrats to fiction writers emily zhou, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenya, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, Helen Elaine Lee and Oksana Vasyakina, finalists for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction.

Huge congrats to C. E. McGill Chloe Chun Seim, Selby Wynn Schwartz and Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction!

Isolation might be as unhealthy as smoking. Why aren’t we taking connection more seriously? Casey Plett explores in this excerpt from On Community, published by Biblioasis.

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Launch Alert!

Spring to Spring: A Launch of Burning Up/ Burning Down and our four previous issues dating back to...last spring! (See what we did there?)
Join us April 19th (7PM) at McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant Park!

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