Nightwood Editions

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!

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.

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.

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! 🛹🔥

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!

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!

09/04/2024

From the award-winning poet Joseph Dandurand comes the fourth book in his Kwantlen Stories Then and Now series.

Beautifully illustrated by Elinor Atkins, THE BEARS AND THE MAGIC MASKS is for all the young readers out there.

Publishing late October. Pre-orders available now at nightwoodeditions.com ✨🐻

09/03/2024

Congratulations to David O'Meara, who has been appointed the new Anglophone Poet Laureate for Ottawa. Catch him at the Ottawa Writers Festival on October 1.

David's debut novel CHANDELIER is landing in bookstores now!

08/15/2024

08/06/2024

I HATE PARTIES is fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between q***r and anxious spaces. Kayla Czaga, author of Midway and For Your Safety Please Hold on, calls it "as wildly entertaining as it is deeply felt."
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I HATE PARTIES is hitting bookstores soon! Order now from Nightwood Editions, your local bookstores, libraries or online retailers.

08/02/2024

We read from Joelle Barron's new collection EXCERPTS FROM A BURNED LETTER (Nightwood Editions), a collection that brings the q***rness that figures from history and fiction previously kept hidden to the fore.

https://alllitup.ca/two-poems-excerpts-from-a-burned-letter/

08/01/2024

Lambda Literary Fellow jaz papadopoulos offers a poetically critical look at how sexual assault trials impact survivors in this stunning debut collection.
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Amber Dawn says the "sharp and unflinching precision of verse . . . illuminates our interconnectedness with each other, with land and water, and with the sensory experiences that remind us we are alive."
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I FEEL THAT WAY TOO is hitting bookstores soon! Order now from Nightwood Editions, your local bookstores, libraries or online retailers.

07/30/2024

From the award-winning poet David O'Meara comes a highly-anticipated debut novel which Booker prize-nominated author Elaine Feeney says is "humorous and wry . . . with characters so real they are at times all too relatable" and Giller prize-nominated author Menaka Raman-Wilms calls "a striking book that will linger long after it’s finished."
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CHANDELIER is hitting bookstores soon! Order now from Nightwood Editions, your local bookstores, libraries or online retailers.

07/19/2024

Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems by indigenous poet Jess Housty, embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing—held by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing.

Housty’s poems are textural—blossoms, feathers, stubborn blots of snow—and reading them is a sensory offering that invites the reader’s whole body to be transported in the experience. Through these poems we can explore living and loving as a practice, and placemaking as an essential part of exploring our humanity and relationality.

Jess Housty will be a guest author at .

Crushed wild mint available now from Nightwood Editions

06/10/2024

Get to know Joelle Barron, author of EXCERPTS FROM A BURNED LETTER, a collection of poems which Ivan Coyote says "will enter you through your eyes, your throat, on the wind, and make its way into your chest, where these words in this order will break your heart and then, when you exhale, leave you longing for your next breath of it."

Order EXCERPTS FROM A BURNED LETTER from your local bookstore, libraries and online retailers now!

06/07/2024

Get to know Amy Mattes, the author of debut novel LATE SEPTEMBER, which has been called "a courageous, vivid, gritty, and surprisingly redemptive portrayal of a young woman in emotional and physical flux" (Michael Christie) and "a breathtaking ride through an unbounded and sensual Montreal" (Susan Sandford Blades).

Order LATE SEPTEMBER from local bookstores, libraries and online retailers now!

06/05/2024

Get to know Dallas Hunt through his new collection, TEETH, which Quill & Quire called "an intimately written collection of poems dedicated to the complexity of Cree and Indigenous life."

Order TEETH from bookstores, libraries and online retailers now!