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🂎 Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough (Véhicule Press)

Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, these stories reimagine Black histories and futures through characters navigating race by way of dreams and aspirations.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🍂 All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac, (‪@touchwooded.bsky.social)

Winner of the Indigenous Voices Award, this debut coming-of-age novel follows a boy whose life is overshadowed by the effects of colonialism.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🐕 Anima by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau, (‪@talonbooks.bsky.social)

Winner of many international awards, this thriller written in North African storytelling tradition follows the story of a man as he searches for truth after his wife’s murder.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🏘️ Solitaria by Genni Gunn (Signature Editions)

Longlisted for the Giller Prize, this sweeping family saga unravels secrets and betrayals across generations.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🎥 This is War by Hannah Moscovitch, (‪@playcanpress.bsky.social)

This play, commissioned by the Banff Centre, was the first of its kind to receive the Trillium Book Award and gives voice to Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🎲 The Junta of Happenstance by @toluini.bsky.social (‪@palimpsestpress.bsky.social)

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, this debut weaves together meditations on illness and disease, finding beauty amidst chaos.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
⚓️ Burning Water by George Bowering (New Star Books)

Blending historical fact with humour, this Governor General’s Award–winning work of postmodern fiction revisits Captain Vancouver’s search for the Northwest Passage.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
💅 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by ‪@razorfemme.bsky.social (@metonymypress.bsky.social)

Writer’s Trust winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist, this bold coming-of-age tale re-imagines the transgender memoir.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🌳 The Future by Catherine Leroux, (‪@biblioasis.bsky.social)

Winner of Canada Reads 2024, this visionary novel imagines resilience in an alternate history where Detroit was never surrendered to the United States.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🏆 Celebrate the books that have made their mark!

To close out our celebration of the Literary Press Group’s 50th anniversary, we’re spotlighting award-winning works that have shaped Canadian literature.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🕊️ On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood by Richard Harrison (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social)

A Governor General’s Literary Award-winning collection uncovering loss and renewal in the wake of tragedy.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🌱 Bodymap by @thellpsx.bsky.social (‪@mawenzihouse.bsky.social)

Tender and resilient, these poems map the intersections of disability, queerness, and transformative love through the eyes of a queer femme-of-colour.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🧠 Unmeaningable by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press)

Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, this visceral collection explores a culture that stigmatizes chronic pain, disability, and survival with unflinching honesty.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🗣️ Live from the Afrikan Resistance! by El Jones (‪@fernpub.bsky.social)

This searing blend of spoken word and political commentary takes readers through the culture of African Nova Scotia.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
📝 How She Read by Chantal Gibson (‪@caitlinpress.bsky.social)

An award-winning collection that interrogates race, representation, and belonging through the experiences of Black women in Canadian culture.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🛌 Dream of No One But Myself by D.M. Bradford (Brick Books)

An award-winning genre-defying debut weaving poetry and prose into an intimate portrait of memory, grief, and identity.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
✨ Words that challenge form and expand our understanding.

To celebrate the Literary Press Group’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing poetry that pushes boundaries and captures life’s most profound moments.

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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🍁 Canada Lives Here: The Case for Public Broadcasting by Wade Rowland (@llpmtl.bsky.social) ‬

A timely, thought-provoking defence of the CBC and its vital role in protecting public spaces, culture, and identity in Canada.

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August 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎙️ We have much to discuss!

As part of the Literary Press Group’s 50 reads for their 50th anniversary, we’re spotlighting one book that is sure to spark conversation.

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August 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🌨️ Going to Beautiful by Anthony Bidulka (Stonehouse Publishing).

In a small prairie town, a celebrity chef is drawn into a decades-spanning murder in this Crime Writers of Canada Award-winning novel.

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August 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🏔️ So Many Windings by Catherine Macdonald (@atbaypress.bsky.social)

Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada and Margaret Laurence Fiction awards, this deadly mystery unfolds on a bicycle tour in the Scottish Highlands.

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August 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🔎 Check out these award-winning mysteries you won’t see coming.

We’re spotlighting gripping, atmospheric reads from the Literary Press Group’s 50 for 50 list.

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August 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
⚓️ Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves by Andy Jones & Darka Erdelji (‪@runningthegoat.bsky.social‬)

Playful and whimsical, this adventure brings Newfoundland’s storytelling tradition to life for readers of all ages.

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August 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🇬🇧 The Loxleys and the War of 1812 (‪from @renegadeartsent.bsky.social)

This award-winning graphic novel brings Canadian history to life through a Niagara Peninsula family swept up in the War of 1812.

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August 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🍏 The Big Green Book of Munsch Books by Robert Munsch, Annick Press

Fifteen zany and heartwarming stories from one of Canada’s most beloved children’s authors, now timeless classics.

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August 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM