news | Tuesday August 4, 2026

cop city swagger on Warland Award Shortlist

We’re thrilled to see cop city swagger by Mercedes Eng on the shortlist for the 2025 Warland Award! The Warland award is administered annually to an exceptional hybrid-genre book published in Canada.⁠
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cop city swagger combines poetry with documentary practices to examine whose safety really matters in the most expensive city in the nation. ⁠
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Congratulations to all of the shortlisted authors! Learn more here.

news | Friday July 24, 2026

Recording of George Bowering Interviewing Daphne Marlatt

The University of British Columbia Okanagan published a recording of George Bowering (Pearl, Taking Measures, and more) interviewing Daphne Marlatt (Intertidal, Then Now, and more)! Tune in here to listen to these two icons of Canadian literature converse.

news | Wednesday July 22, 2026

An Interview with Jenn Ashton in The Vancouver Guardian

Check out this interview in The Vancouver Guardian with Jenn Ashton, a finalist for the 2026 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editor’s Society’s Book Awards for BC Authors! Here she shares some of her art, what it’s like to have her new book based on her teenage journals Growing My Way Home in the world, and more. To learn more about this multi-talented creative, click here.

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.