news | Wednesday July 1, 2026

Talonbooks Summer Sale

More than halfway through 2026 and Talonbooks has had a very exciting year! So many Talonbooks authors have been receiving recognition for their outstanding titles and we knew we had to celebrate.

From now until July 31, enjoy 30% off of any of these commended titles when you purchase them through the Talonbooks website. Enter the Code SUMMER2630 at check out. The offer is valid until July 31, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Get yourself a brand new beach read* this summer with Talonbooks’ summer sale. Learn more about the Talonbooks titles that have appeared on book prize lists so far this year:

The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and is a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize! This gorgeous work of poetry is written in an imagined voice of Zulaykha, the “wife of Aziz” in the Qur’an and the biblical “wife of Potiphar.”

th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett was longlisted for the Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize! This “novel of pomes” is the latest offering from one of Canada’s most legendary and beloved literary icons.

Crowd Source by Cecily Nicholson was longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award! Crowd Source is a book of poetry for corvid lovers everywhere.

Heartlines: A Love Story by Sarah Waisvisz was a finalist for a LAMBDA Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama. This debut play imagines the queer lives and love of gender pioneers, artists, and nazi resisters Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn won the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English! This personal and educational book uses the spirit marker writing system as a foundation for teaching ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ nêhîyawewin.

Lha yudit’ih We Always Find a Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home by Lorraine Weir with Chief Roger William won the 2026 Jeanne Clarke Local History Publication Award! This essential book is a community oral history of Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, the first case in Canada to result in a declaration of Aboriginal Rights and Title to a specific piece of land.

Revolutions by Hajer Mirwali won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry! This innovative debut poetry book examines pleasure, shame, and Muslim daughterhood and is powerful in both form and content.

Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Jessica Moore was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. This dual-language collection presents poems side-by-side in English and Innu-aimun.

We wish you good summer reading!

news | Tuesday July 21, 2026

Growing My Way Home a Finalist for Book Award for BC Authors!

Growing My Way Home by Jenn Ashton is a finalist for the 2026 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society’s fourth annual Book Awards for BC Authors in the Indigenous Voices category! A huge congratulations to Jenn! Growing My Way Home is a powerful story of struggle, perseverance, and reconnection based on Ashton’s teenage diaries. Check out all of this year’s finalists here.

news | Monday July 20, 2026

Jónína Kirton and bill bissett Featured

Save Your Prayers – Send Money by Jónína Kirton and th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett are highlighted in Read Local BC’s article about books to check out for Disability Pride Month. Kirton’s new collection takes on the wellness industry and bissett’s new novel of poems takes readers to the breath of the poem and beyond. Get all of Read Local BC’s recommendations here.

news | Sunday July 19, 2026

Lha yudit'ih We Always Find a Way in Canadian Literature

Margery Fee reviews Lha yudit’ih We Always Find A Way byLorraine Weir with Chief Roger William in Canadian Literature, stating that “Scholars will be happy with the book’s admirable academic apparatus … The book belongs to a burgeoning number that provide an overview of the worldview and histories of particular nations from their perspectives, often deriving from the extensive in-house research required by court cases. This one should find a home on the bookshelves of many non-specialist readers.” To read the full review, order issue 264 of Canadian Literature.

news | Saturday July 18, 2026

An Interview with Jenn Ashton on Windspeaker.com

Shari Narine interviews Jenn Ashton, author of Growing My Way Home for Windspeaker.com. The pair discuss the merits of the designation of autofiction, and coming home to oneself.

From the article: “Building a greenhouse wasn’t metaphorical. Ashton did build an actual greenhouse.

Ashton tried to grow her plants in the greenhouse before the planting season and ran into numerous problems. In the end, she gradually moved the plants outdoors and put them in the ground.

‘When I look back at how my life was, I can see all of the things that were trying to get me back to where I was supposed to be. I think I was trying to have dominion over this place, and it was going to be my redo and I was going to do it right. And when I look at it now, I think, “Oh, that is such a colonized way of thinking that I was lord over these plants and everything and making this perfect place for them.” I was actually shutting out nature in that greenhouse,’ she said.”

Read the full piece here.

news | Friday July 17, 2026

An Interview with ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn in Lakeland Today

Meredith Kerr interviews ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn following his win of the 2026 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English for his incredible work of nonfiction ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another. In their conversation, quinn says, “‘I thought … maybe others will start thinking about how we can leave bits of the language for the future generations.’” Read the piece in Lakeland Today here.

news | Thursday July 16, 2026

Two Talon Authors on the 2025 Warland Award Longlist

Two Talonbooks authors are on the 2025 Warland Award Longlist judged this year by Phanuel Antwi! The Warland Award annually recognizes an outstanding hybrid-genre work published in Canada. We’re thrilled to share that cop city swagger by Mercedes Eng, which fuses documentary practices and poetry, and No Signal No Noise by A Jamali Rad which marries prose, poetry, and philosophy are on this incredible longlist. To see this year’s longlist and learn more about the commended books, click here.

news | Wednesday July 15, 2026

King Arthur's Night on the Knowledge Network

The genre-bending documentary King Arthur’s Night based on the play by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef is available to stream now on the Knowledge Network! Enjoy it here.

news | Tuesday July 14, 2026

Jenn Ashton and ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn in The Tyee

The Tyee has put out a list of local books to pick up for great summer reading. We’re thrilled to see two new Talonbooks titles in the article. The Tyee recommends checking out Growing My Way Home, a work of autofiction by award-winning Sḵwx̱wú7mesh author Jenn Ashton. Based on Ashton’s teenage journals, in Growing My Way Home we follow our narrator through abuse, her time as a young drug dealer and a teen parent through to becoming an established artist.

The Tyee also suggests picking up ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn. The winner of the 2026 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English, ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok offers a look into ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ nêhiyaw ways of being and some of the language philosophy behindᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ nêhîyawewin. These two books can’t be missed. Read the complete article in The Tyee here.

news | Sunday July 12, 2026

Mercedes Eng on Wax Poetic

The award-winning poet Mercedes Eng, author of Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, my yt mama, and more was a guest on the radio program Wax Poetic to talk about her most recent poetry book, the 2025 City of Vancouver Book Award–finalist cop city swagger. Eng shares her poetry, discusses what inspired her to instrumentalize the language of institutions, government bodies, and venture capitalists to take aim at structural violence(s), the transcendent medicine of women activists working in community, and more. Listen to the full interview here.

news | Thursday July 9, 2026

An Interview with Hajer Mirwali in White Wall Review

White Wall Review conducts a fun mini-interview with the award-winning poet Hajer Mirwali. Mirwali’s debut book of poetry Revolutions, which looks at shame, pleasure, and Muslim daughterhood, won the 2026 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Find out when Mirwali first began to consider herself a writer, when writing comes most easily to her, facts she has recently learned, and more. Read the complete interview here.