Nightwood Editions

Nightwood Editions Nightwood Editions is a literary book publisher based in British Columbia, Canada.

Nightwood Editions is committed to publishing and promoting the best new poetry and fiction by writers across Canada. Our goal is to give readers a chance to explore the high-quality work of emerging Canadian writers, and new writers an opportunity to publish their work in book form. Ultimately, Nightwood Editions strives to publish books that foster a community of writers and readers, providing a

forum for thought, discussion and interaction while reflecting the diversity our country is known for. Nightwood is also dedicated to producing excellent Canadian non-fiction that helps support its literary list. Whether publishing poetry, sports, fiction or crossword titles, Nightwood Editions maintains the highest standards in all it undertakes, building on its growing reputation.

✨ Happy Pub Day to STAGES OF TANNING WORDS AND REMEMBERING SPELLS! ✨"Tawahum’s poems invite us into the homeland that is...
04/22/2025

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Happy Pub Day to STAGES OF TANNING WORDS AND REMEMBERING SPELLS!
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"Tawahum’s poems invite us into the homeland that is the body and the complex rawness of human identity. This collection teaches us what shatters and what binds, what rises to the surface when we seek connection, and what we might discover in the valleys of hunger and holiness that wait for our careful attention. Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells is an urgent and vivid testament to the sacredness of wounds and the cracked and luminous glow of the unfiltered human spirit. These are words to be tasted, inhabited, and felt to your core."
—Jess Housty, author of Crushed Wild Mint

"Tawahum Bige’s Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells carves out a singular voice in contemporary poetry—fierce, tender, and unabashedly raw. Echoing the searing intimacy and lyrical witticisms of poets like of Tenille Campbell and Tommy Pico, Bige has crafted a thoughtful rumination on the nature of transformation and metamorphosis. This collection surprises, delights, and lingers long after the reading is done."
—Carleigh Baker, author of Last Woman

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We're thrilled to announce that Nightwood poet Isabella Wang has been name a Writers' Trust Rising Star of 2025. 🌀The Wr...
04/16/2025

We're thrilled to announce that Nightwood poet Isabella Wang has been name a Writers' Trust Rising Star of 2025.
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The Writers' Trust Rising Stars program is a dynamic career development initiative that recognizes five Canadian authors at the onset of their careers who are poised to produce exceptional and enduring creative work.

In addition to the mentorship opportunity with their selector, each Rising Star receives $5,000 and a two-week, self-directed writing residency at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on the Toronto Islands.
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From 2025 selector Joseph Dandurand:

“Isabella Wang is an amazing young writer of beautiful, thought-provoking pieces. Her first published book, Pebble Swing, is full of cherished and wonderous poems.

"Her academic studies have given her the opportunity to read, edit, and meet other authors while developing her own writing. Even though she is young, she has lived the life of a poet and developed the ability to create exceptional poetry out of everyday reality and glorious imagination.

"Wang demonstrates immense promise as she constructs more of herself. There will be great poetry created by such creativity and resourcefulness. Wang is a remarkable and outstanding poet with a bright future, and we are forever grateful for her gift.”
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Wang's forthcoming collection NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER (Fall 2025) is available for pre-order NOW!
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We're thrilled to see TEETH is a finalist for BC & Yukon Book Prizes' 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize! Winners will be...
04/16/2025

We're thrilled to see TEETH is a finalist for BC & Yukon Book Prizes' 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize!

Winners will be announced on September 21 at the BC & Yukon Book Prizes Gala in Vancouver.

✨EXISTING MUSIC by Nick Thran is officially out in the world TODAY!✨Riffs, celebrations, collaborations, distortions and...
04/15/2025

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EXISTING MUSIC by Nick Thran is officially out in the world TODAY!
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Riffs, celebrations, collaborations, distortions and meditations—these poems explore the companionship of wistful music.
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Stay tuned for event announcements throughout Canada this spring & summer.

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✨Vancouver poetry lovers—don't miss this evening of fierce and tender conversation with Tawahum Bige. APRIL 26, 7pm at E...
03/31/2025

✨Vancouver poetry lovers—don't miss this evening of fierce and tender conversation with Tawahum Bige. APRIL 26, 7pm at Enabling Arts ✨

🔥R.I.P. SCOOT by Sara Flemington is out TODAY! This hilarious & heart-wrenching literary mystery blends stories of nonse...
02/25/2025

🔥R.I.P. SCOOT by Sara Flemington is out TODAY!

This hilarious & heart-wrenching literary mystery blends stories of nonsense & profound truth—the kind we tell ourselves to make sense of love & loss in an uncertain world.

"An unpredictable charmer—a shaggy-dog story about a patchy cat. Sara Flemington writes like a kookier Paul Auster, exploring the mysteries of coincidence, obsession, and grief with sweet, strange prose."
—Greg Rhyno, author of Who by Fire

"Let this misfit sphinx of a novel scoot through the broken window of your feral, tender heart."
—Brooke Lockyer, author of Burr

"R.I.P. Scoot makes my heart sing. It makes me feel less afraid, more hopeful. I’m grateful to the universe for sending it my way."
—Ken Sparling, author of Not Anywhere, Just Not

🔥 Named one of Toronto Star's top 25 books to read in 2025 & 49th Shelf's Most Anticipated spring books—don't miss out! 🔥

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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN ONE MINUTE by Bruce McIvorFrom the author of Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People a...
02/24/2025

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN ONE MINUTE by Bruce McIvor

From the author of Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It comes another invaluable resource for supporting Indigenous rights.

In his forthcoming book, internationally renowned Aboriginal law lawyer Bruce McIvor delivers concise, essential information for Canadians committed to truth and reconciliation.

Don't miss this critical read—hitting bookstores MAY 2025.

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✨STAGES OF TANNING WORDS AND REMEMBERING SPELLS by Tawahum Justin Peter Bige ✨"Tawahum’s poems invite us into the homela...
02/05/2025

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STAGES OF TANNING WORDS AND REMEMBERING SPELLS by Tawahum Justin Peter Bige
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"Tawahum’s poems invite us into the homeland that is the body and the complex rawness of human identity. This collection teaches us what shatters and what binds, what rises to the surface when we seek connection, and what we might discover in the valleys of hunger and holiness that wait for our careful attention. Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells is an urgent and vivid testament to the sacredness of wounds and the cracked and luminous glow of the unfiltered human spirit. These are words to be tasted, inhabited, and felt to your core."
—Jess Housty, author of Crushed Wild Mint
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Pre-order NOW. Publishes APRIL 15, 2025.
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Cover art by Jonas Bige

✨EXISTING MUSIC by Nick Thran ✨✨“Whether quick on the pivot or ‘slightly less slow than adagio slow,’ Nick Thran’s subtl...
01/23/2025

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EXISTING MUSIC by Nick Thran
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“Whether quick on the pivot or ‘slightly less slow
than adagio slow,’ Nick Thran’s subtle, meditative poetry combines the moves of an acute point guard with those of a thoughtful flaneur browsing coffee shops and helping to run bookstores. Each poem in Existing Music works its own charm, finding its own apt ‘marriage between dance and speech,’ at once homegrown and riveting.”
—Don McKay
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Pre-order NOW. Publishes APRIL 15, 2025.
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Cover by the ultra-talented Natalie Olsen.

No cats were harmed in the making of this book 🤝“What would you do if a three-and-a-half-pawed, no-eyed cat with a blood...
12/16/2024

No cats were harmed in the making of this book 🤝

“What would you do if a three-and-a-half-pawed, no-eyed cat with a bloody squirrel’s tail hanging from its mouth turned up at your apartment one day, and when you opened the door it dropped the tail at your feet and scooted between your legs and over to your wool sweater—the corn-like one with a ring of grey triangles around the middle that was knit special for you by the shopkeeper of the hardware store down the street, because of all of the business you’d provided her over the years in the form of key-cutting—and began pulling up the fibres with the real claws of one paw and the imaginary claws of the other, until it decided the garment was good enough for lying down upon, and curled itself into a circle, and didn’t close its eyes, because it couldn’t, and gave its own tail a few rough licks, and then, presumably, fell asleep?

I named him Scoot.”

So begins R.I.P. SCOOT, a hilarious, heart-wrenching literary mystery in which Sara Flemington blends stories of both nonsense and profound truth—the kind we use to make sense of love and loss in an uncertain world.

PREORDER now! Filling bookstores March 2025 😻

We’re thrilled to announce that Rita Wong is the recipient of the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize! Her collec...
11/21/2024

We’re thrilled to announce that Rita Wong is the recipient of the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize! Her collections FORAGE and UNDERCURRENT are both published with Nightwood Editions.

About Wong’s work, the judges write:

"Rita Wong’s immediate and necessary poetry takes the breath away. Wong is a poet of total commitment. Her poetry lives on the page, and she sometimes claims the margins as well. We can feel her heart in her words in ways that are both playful and blunt, razor-sharp and lyrically beautiful. Frankly political and decolonial, Wong accompanies her warrior’s poetry with intense meditations on heritage and ecology, often in the same moment. Wong’s body of work is remarkable, transformative, and inspiring."

Congratulations, Rita!

Don't miss the launch of THE BEARS AND THE MAGIC MASKS by award-winning poet Joseph Dandurand and illustrator Elinor Atk...
11/15/2024

Don't miss the launch of THE BEARS AND THE MAGIC MASKS by award-winning poet Joseph Dandurand and illustrator Elinor Atkins at Iron Dog Books on November 20 at 6:00pm. Free to attend!

CRUSHED WILD MINT has been on the BC Bestsellers list for 52 straight weeks! If you haven’t read it yet, this is your si...
10/02/2024

CRUSHED WILD MINT has been on the BC Bestsellers list for 52 straight weeks! If you haven’t read it yet, this is your sign ✨

A huge congratulations to Jess Housty on their Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award.

Big shout out to Nightwood authors Cathy Stonehouse, whose poetry collection Dream House was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Brandon Reid, whose debut novel Beautiful Beautiful was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

If you're in the Ottawa area next week, don't miss David O'Meara's launch of his debut novel CHANDELIER with live music ...
09/11/2024

If you're in the Ottawa area next week, don't miss David O'Meara's launch of his debut novel CHANDELIER with live music by Megan Jerome.

Vancouver Island readers—don't miss Amy Mattes, author of LATE SEPTEMBER, at an author reading and conversation event th...
09/10/2024

Vancouver Island readers—don't miss Amy Mattes, author of LATE SEPTEMBER, at an author reading and conversation event this weekend.

If you haven't read Late September yet, find this gem at bookstores, libraries and nightwoodeditions.com now! 🛹🔥

jaz papadopoulos will launch their debut poetry collection, I FEEL THAT WAY TOO, with Melanie Siebert at a special In Co...
09/06/2024

jaz papadopoulos will launch their debut poetry collection, I FEEL THAT WAY TOO, with Melanie Siebert at a special In Conversation event with Elee Kraljii Gardiner at next week!

We're thrilled to see Tim Blackett's story "Tina Slinn" from GRANDVIEW DRIVE included in Book of the Month's Volume 0 th...
09/04/2024

We're thrilled to see Tim Blackett's story "Tina Slinn" from GRANDVIEW DRIVE included in Book of the Month's Volume 0 this season 👏

If you haven't read Grandview Drive yet, find this gem at bookstores, libraries or nightwoodeditions.com now!


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