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01/30/2025

Friends if you're at OLA, please stop by the OBPO pavillion at OLA to catch these two fabulous authors signing!

01/29/2025

Happy Lunar New Year to all our friends celebrating!

01/23/2025

A wonderful post from Kilby Smith-McGregor on her design process for Erina Harris' gorgeous collection Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead is up at All Lit Up.

Marbled paper, glitched textures, 3D-printed frames, a Canadian painting... these are just some of the references that went into Kilby Smith-McGregor's cover design of Erina Harris's new poetry collection, TRADING BEAUTY SECRETS WITH THE DEAD (Wolsak & Wynn Publishing Ltd). Read more about Kilby's fascinating design process here:

https://alllitup.ca/beautiful-books-a-chat-with-kilby-smith-mcgregor-designer-of-trading-beauty-secrets-with-the-dead/

01/20/2025

We're delighted to be taking part in Sharp Words this year, along with many other fabulous publishers, writers and artists. If you're in the Hamilton area - or easy driving distance - we hope you can come out! You can learn more at sharpwords.ca

01/17/2025

Love Roller Derby?! 🛼 ♥️

Then you’re gonna love this book by “The Derby Nerd” D.D. Miller, Eight-Wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd’s Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby by D.D.Miller, published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2016. We’re excited to be bringing it back from the backlist and offer review copies (yes, even limited number of hard copies!) to our wonderful community here at River Street.

Interested in reviewing this book? Request a copy here:

http://www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-street-reads

D. D. Miller is fascinated by roller derby. As the Derby Nerd he has been covering roller derby since 2009, travelling to games across Canada and the United States, including two world championships, reporting back to an ever-growing audience the details of the sport. In this entertaining and thorough book he explains roller derby to newcomers and charts the sport’s rise from small groups of women looking for people to skate with over the Internet to the world presence it is today.

Along the way he considers roller derby’s roots in Riot Grrrl and DIY culture, and the importance of the LGBTQ community both inside and outside of the sport. This is a warm, thoughtful look at a sport that Miller understands intimately, which takes us beyond the costumes and showmanship, into the heart of what he feels may be the first truly feminist sport.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR— :

D. D. Miller is originally from Nova Scotia but has lived, worked and studied all across the country. His work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Eleven Eleven: Journal of Literature and Art and Dinosaur P**n. As the Derby Nerd, Miller is known around North America for his writing and commentary on roller derby, one of the world’s fastest growing sports.

A graduate of Mount Allison University, the University of Victoria and the University of Guelph (where he completed his MFA), Miller currently lives in Toronto where he works as a college English instructor. He also announced at both the 2011 and 2014 Roller Derby World Cups and was part of ESPN’s broadcast crew for the 2015 WFTDA Championships.

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01/11/2025

It's wonderful to see these out in the world!

01/07/2025

Just a reminder about the book tax holiday that's happening right now. It's a great time to pick up that book you wanted! You can see all our titles at www.wolsakandwynn.ca

12/31/2024

Happy New Year Everyone! We hope 2025 is filled with happiness and great books to read!

12/26/2024

Happy Kwanzaa to all our friends celebrating!

12/25/2024

Happy Hanukkah to all our friends celebrating !

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas to all our friends celebrating!

12/21/2024

Happy Solstice to all our friends celebrating!

12/13/2024

Congratulations to David Neil Lee on taking home his second Kerry Schooley Award from the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Awards. We couldn't agree more that his Midnight Games trilogy "captures the spirit of the city of Hamilton." With a few monsters thrown in to keep it lively!

12/10/2024

friends, this wonderful event is happening in just a few days! we hope to see you there!

12/09/2024

Is your heart in Winnipeg? Enjoy these fabulous collections by Winnipeg's Ariel Gordon:

12/09/2024

Ariel Gordon's mind wanders from the vaulted ceilings of her mother's church to the cathedral of the forest in her reading for . Listen to Ariel read from FUNGAL: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn Publishing Ltd) here:

https://alllitup.ca/cozy-fest-ariel-gordon-fungal/