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07/09/2024

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01/16/2024

Join John Lazarus for the launch of Two Ways About It on Wednesday, January 17 at 7:00 pm at the Novel Idea Booksore.

Kingston folks! Don't miss the launch of Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting by John Lazarus!

12/15/2023

A suggestively romantic first-encounter from Kristen Da Silva's play WHERE YOU ARE (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) closes out our final day of : get comfy and tune in for a reading from the playwright herself at the link.

alllitup.ca/cozy-fest-kristen-da-silva-where-you-are/

12/13/2023

08/08/2023

Small publishers across Ontario mortgage their homes and work without pay to tell stories that give voice to the voiceless

08/01/2023

We'd like to extend our gratitude to the Scirocco Drama for their sponsorship of the Carol Bolt Award! Your support is truly appreciated—thank you! ✨😀

08/01/2023

It's the this Sunday, so we're taking a look at ten literary friendships from fiction, plays, memoir, and more.

https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2023/Top-10-Literary-Friendships

05/18/2023

Our series continues, this time, with a special guest recommender who really knows his stuff. Playwright and actor David Yee recommends eight plays by Asian playwrights, from Talonbooks, Playwrights Canada Press, and Scirocco Drama.

https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2023/Asian-Heritage-Month-Drama-Spotlight-with-guest-recommender-David-Yee

03/31/2023

It's more vital than ever to commemorate and celebrate today's . These 20 books by talented trans and nonbinary writers are one place to start. 🏳️‍⚧️

https://alllitup.ca/Lists/Trans-Day-of-Visibility-Reads

06/05/2020

Winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards, Edmonton Book Prize & Golden Pen AwardBy Ellen Kartz on June 4, 2020 in News, UncategorizedThe Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. We are a...

04/28/2020

Congratulations to Scott Nolan for his nomination for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book.

04/20/2020

Congratulations to everyone longlisted for the 2020 Stephen Leacock Award -- especially our own Mark Crawford, nominated for The New Canadian Curling Club!

Our membership year runs from April 1 to March 31 of the following year.   When you renew now, your membership will be paid up until March 31, 2021.

04/17/2020

Congratulations to Scott Nolan and all the other nominees for being shortlisted in the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba

You can read the full shortlist here: https://manitobabookawards.com/index.php/en/2-uncategorised/66-media-release-april-17-2021

04/15/2020

All Lit Up featured Scott Nolan as part of their DiscoverVerse series for National Poetry Month. Click to read ALU's interview with Scott and the poem "Yellow Lights of Moray" from his book 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.

Around his 40th birthday in 2015, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Scott Nolan set out to replace smoking ci******es with walking ten kilometres a...

04/14/2020

Congratulations to Tara Beagan, whose play Honour Beat was just short listed for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama!

2020 Alberta Literary Awards and City of Edmonton Book Prize Finalists AnnouncedBy Ellen Kartz on April 14, 2020 in News, UncategorizedThe Writers’ Guild of Alberta is excited to announce the finalists for the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards and Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Each year,...

03/12/2020

Lara Rae talks about Mark Crawford's delightful play "Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures" as part of AMPB's extended I Love to Read Month!

We're back with more extended I Love To Read Month goodness! Today we have author Lara Rae discussing two titles: "Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures" by Mark Crawford (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) and "The Gift Is in the Making: Anishinaabeg Stories" by Leanne Simpson (HighWater Press)!

Mark Crawford's "Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures" makes a serious business of play as a useful and safe avenue into gender comfortability. Kids will relate to the simple message of exploration while parents will be pleased at the non-judgmental and grounded approach to our new gender fluid reality. Published by J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, for ages 9 to 12.
For more info, or to purchase a copy: https://www.jgshillingford.com/shop-books/boys-girls-and-other-mythological-creatures/

For those of us reared on Aesop and Grimm, "The Gift Is in the Making: Anishinaabeg Stories" by Leanne Simpson and illustrated by Amanda Strong is a literary present. As well as immersing the reader in indigenous myths and cosmology this slim and entertaining volume is a mini primer in Anishinaabeg terminology. So, hop in your jiimaanan (canoe) and paddle through this sea of sweet, sad and strong stories. HighWater Press, for grades 5–9. For more info, or to purchase a copy: https://highwaterpress.com/product/the-gift-is-in-the-making/

To see all other I Love To Read Month posts: http://ambp.ca/i-love-to-read-month

01/15/2020

Thrilled to see Katherena Vermette's collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, included on this list of top 10 books by Manitoba writers from the previous decade!

Is it a fool’s errand to try and put together a list of the 10 best, or most important, or most impactful, Manitoba books of the decade? By what measuring stick can these 10 titles be sized up — awards received? Critical acclaim? Widespread recognition or sales figures? Cultural impact? Staying ...

01/13/2020

Have you read Sheilla Jones and Sheila North's Op-Ed about Modernizing Treaty Annuities?

A modern annuity is now, more than ever, a powerful response to the TRC Calls to Action, and to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls to Justice. It is a practical and realistic means for settlers to share the prosperity of the land with the first people.

10/02/2019

Congratulations to Sean Harris Oliver, whose play The Fighting Season has been nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama!

Discover Canada's best books - the winners and finalists of the Governor General's Literary Awards (GGBooks)

09/09/2019

Sheilla Jones and Sheila North were on APTN National News discussing 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬. Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B-KA0zqjoo

09/06/2019

We can't get enough of Scott Nolan's poem "Yellow Lights of Moray" set to music.

Songwriter, poet and multi-instrumentalist Scott Nolan hasn't just written a collection of poems. The pieces within Moon Was a Feather are love songs...

09/06/2019