Tuesday, May 23, 7:30PM ADT, Zoom Webinar "Finding the Fun in Children's Nonfiction" with Hackmatack nominee Rachel Poliquin Non-fiction is NOT fiction’s boring cousin. Join children’s non-fiction… More

Double Reader's Choice Award Nominations

Jane Thorbjornsen, JB Warren | POSTED: May 12, 2023

Contest or Award

Jane Baird Warren’s debut Middle-Grade novel, How to Be a Goldfish (Scholastic 2022), has been named a 2023 Snow Willow Finalist in the Saskatchewan Young Readers Award – AND - 2024 Northern Lights… More

Outside Looking In: The Seriously Funny Life and Work of George Carlin

John Corcelli
POSTED: May 10, 2023

New Publication

Five year member, John Corcelli has a new book on the legendary wordsmith and comedian George Carlin. It’s available at on-line book retailers. Warning: Seven Dirty Words are… More

J.M. Frey Inks Deal with Wattpad

Peggy Barnett | POSTED: May 9, 2023

New Publication

J.M. Frey is very pleased to announce that her sapphic time travel romance TIME AND TIDE has been acquired by Margot Mallinson at W by Wattpad, for publication in summer 2024. The novel,… More

Bramah's Quest, the journey continues

My author first name is “Renee Sarojini” like “Mary Jane”
POSTED: May 5, 2023

New Publication

The year is 2087 and the time-travelling demigoddess, Bramah, a locksmith, is back on planet Earth, helping seed savers and resisters survive climate change and global inequality. Bramah is on a quest… More

The spring issue of Prairie Fire looks at the topic of peace on a personal level. Find work on finding peace after the death of a loved one, making peace with historical trauma, finding inner… More

THE LIGHT OF ETERNAL SPRING published

Angel Di Zhang
POSTED: Apr 28, 2023

New Publication

Angel Di Zhang's debut novel, THE LIGHT OF ETERNAL SPRING, is out now with Random House Canada. It is a magic realist novel about a photographer who falls into photos and her quest to reconcile with… More

Ashland Creek Press is delighted to host Reading Animals/Writing Animals, sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers’ Union of Canada, with Siskiyou Prize… More

Celebrate Readers & Writers this fall at Bookapalooza Haliburton Highlands, Ontario. This two-day event kicks off Friday evening September 15 with TWUC's own Lawrence Hill as the Big Book Club… More

No matter who we are, we have this in common: we were all children once. It is during this universal stage of life that we are the most open to the world, and experience most deeply the full range of… More