Wolsak & Wynn Publishing Ltd

09/16/2024

Vancouver Friends, this event is just two days away!

09/15/2024

This amazing event is happening in just a week! You can sign up here! https://buff.ly/3ZkWmG7

09/14/2024

Friends , Telling Tales is just a week away! We hope to see you there!

09/13/2024

Friends , this wonderful event is happening in just a week! We hope to see you there!

09/11/2024

Supercrawl is just two days away! We'd love to see you there!

09/11/2024

Vancouver friends, this is one week away!

09/10/2024

Friends, we've started a Blue Sky account for the press. If you'd like to follow us there, we're .bsky.social. We shall see how it goes!

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09/09/2024

THIS TUESDAY, September 10th at 7pm, celebrated Kingston poet ARMAND GARNET RUFFO launches his latest, right here at Novel Idea!

Armand will introduce and read from his new poetry volume ‘The Dialogues,’ and he’ll personally sign your copy. Books will be available for purchase, and refreshments provided. Be sure not to miss this special evening with one of Kingston’s—and Queen’s University’s—most inspiring voices.

“In ‘The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow,’ [the] award-winning author…brings to life not only the story of the famed WWI Indigenous sniper, but also the complexities of telling Indigenous stories. From Wasauksing (Parry Island) to the trenches of WWI to the stage, Ruffo moves seamlessly through time in these poems, taking the reader on a captivating journey through Pegahmagabow’s story and onto the creation of Sounding Thunder, the opera based on his life. Throughout, Ruffo uses the Ojibwe concept of two-eyed seeing, which combines the strengths of western and Indigenous ways of knowing, and invites the reader to do the same, particularly through the inclusion of the Anishinaabemowin language within the collection. These are poems that challenge western conventions of thinking, that celebrate hope and that show us a new way to see the world.”

Wolsak & Wynn Publishing Ltd. Queen's Department of English. Downtown Kingston

09/09/2024

This great event is just two days away! We'd love to see you there!

09/07/2024

Friends we're at Eden Mills tomorrow. If you're attending please come and say hi! We'll be right across from the Info booth.

09/04/2024

Telling Tales is a fabulous event that happens every year in Hamilton and we're delighted to be taking part this year for the first time.

09/02/2024

This great event is coming up soon!

NEXT TUESDAY, Sept. 10th at 7pm, celebrated Kingston poet ARMAND GARNET RUFFO launches his latest, right here at Novel Idea!

Armand will introduce and read from his new poetry volume ‘The Dialogues,’ and he’ll personally sign your copy. Books will be available for purchase, and refreshments provided. Be sure not to miss this special evening with one of Kingston’s—and Queen’s University’s—most inspiring voices.

“In ‘The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow,’ [the] award-winning author…brings to life not only the story of the famed WWI Indigenous sniper, but also the complexities of telling Indigenous stories. From Wasauksing (Parry Island) to the trenches of WWI to the stage, Ruffo moves seamlessly through time in these poems, taking the reader on a captivating journey through Pegahmagabow’s story and onto the creation of Sounding Thunder, the opera based on his life. Throughout, Ruffo uses the Ojibwe concept of two-eyed seeing, which combines the strengths of western and Indigenous ways of knowing, and invites the reader to do the same, particularly through the inclusion of the Anishinaabemowin language within the collection. These are poems that challenge western conventions of thinking, that celebrate hope and that show us a new way to see the world.”

Wolsak & Wynn Publishing Ltd. Queen's Department of English. Downtown Kingston

08/29/2024

Friends this great event is just a couple of weeks away! We hope you can come out!

08/28/2024

Hamilton friends, we'll be out on the Friday night of Supercrawl, with a tent full of great Hamilton authors. Come say hi!

08/27/2024

"This isn’t Susanna Moodie’s CanLit"
Peter Darbyshire has put together a fabulous list of books in this great blog post highlighting some of Canada's most creative writers. You can read it at the link here: https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/blog/2024/08/26/taking-canlit-into-canfantastic-territory and learn more about his new books here: https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/cross-books

This isn’t Susanna Moodie’s CanLit.

08/22/2024

This is lovely to see!

08/21/2024

Our first fall festival table is coming up soon! If you're coming to Eden Mills, please look for us there!

08/20/2024

We missed this when it was first announced, so congratulations to Erina Harris on this wonderful recognition:

08/14/2024

More great endorsements for our fall titles!

08/13/2024

Enjoy an excerpt from Peter Darbyshire's Mona Lisa Sacrifice - the first book in the thrilling Cross series. Click on the link to read the excerpt: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2335/9075/files/Mona_Lisa_Sacrifice_The_-_excerpt.pdf?v=1722540250

Welcome to Wolsak & Wynn, a charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Ha

08/10/2024

We'll be running our preorder campaign all August for these great books! Visit buff.ly/3odzxOO to learn more!

08/09/2024

We're getting some great reviews for Satellite Image already - here's a lovely snippet of one from Good Reads!

08/08/2024

Friends Ellen Chang-Richardson's western tour is coming soon. Mark your calendars for these dates!

08/08/2024

We have some fabulous endorsements for our fall books coming in - like this one for Michelle Berry's Satellite Image!

08/07/2024

Are you following this great podcast? If not give it a listen - Nathan Whitlock has a fascinating interview with W&W's Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer in this great episode:

Honest, funny conversations with authors about what happens when a new book isn't new anymore, and it's time to write a new one.

08/02/2024

We have wonderful endorsements coming in for Natasha Ramoutar's Baby Cerberus!

08/01/2024

We're delighted to be reissuing Peter Darbyshire's brilliant Cross novels in new editions complete with author notes for each title! Preorder now and be ready to dive into these page-turning speculative thrillers filled with angels, fairies, gorgons and even the odd kraken. Visit www.wolsakandwynn.ca for more details

Welcome to Wolsak & Wynn, a charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Ha

07/29/2024

Tune in to the 105.5 HITS FM Neighbourhood Bookclub at 8:30 a.m. EST to hear host and Poet Laureate of Scugog Township talk with Winnipeg author Ariel Gordon, whose bestselling book Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest is available in store.

Fungal is a wide-ranging collection from Ariel Gordon where she explores her fascination with all mushrooms, not just those you can eat. In these engaging essays she takes the reader through ditches and puddles in search of morels, through the hallways of a mushroom factory, down city sidewalks and beside riverbanks as she considers things found and fungal. Along the way there are entertaining stories of the perils of mushroom identification, including mailed mushrooms that have liquefied, or terrifying thoughts of Canadian geese being fed hallucinogenic mushrooms as well as thoughtful analysis of the ways mushrooms knit our ecosystems together and the ways we knit our lives and communities together. Smart, funny and poetic, Gordon moves seamlessly from the natural world to the personal in these essays, examining the interconnectedness of all things and delighting in the rich variety of the world around her.

07/26/2024

We're thrilled to see Michelle Berry's Satellite Image on the Q&Q Fall Preview: