#CanLit

2026-01-19

Sharp Words Winter Book Fair is coming! We'll be there on Saturday, January 31st from 11 to 5 pm, down at Bridgeworks at 200 Caroline Street North. Come by for panels, artists, authors, and the best selection of indie books to top up your winter TBR. Check Sharpwords.ca for updates!

#BookFair #IndieBookFair #BookMarket #SmallPress #BookEvents #OntarioEvents #HamOnt #HamOntEvents #CanadianLiterature #CanLit

SHARP WORDS. Hamilton's Winter Book Fair. January 31, 2026. Presented by Supercrawl.
Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Canadian_Eh@mas.to
2026-01-17

A Novelist's Alter Ego

Robertson Davies, a key figure in Canadian literature, was known for novels like 'Fifth Business.' Less known is his work's connection to Jungian psychology, exploring archetypes & the subconscious. His famous public persona, with its flowing beard and grand style, was said to mirror the wise 'magus' characters found in his fiction, blurring the line between the author & his creation. #Canada #RobertsonDavies #CanLit #Jung

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertso

Davies in 1982
2026-01-12

Friday Night Poetry returns to Russell Books on January 16. Join poets Mahaila Smith (Seed Beetle) and Lorne Daniel (What Is Broken Binds Us) for an open mic and readings. 7pm sign-up, 7:30 start. See you there!

#FridayNightPoetry #PlanetEarthPoetry #RussellBooks #VictoriaBC #YYJEvents #OpenMicPoetry #PoetryReading #CanadianPoetry #CanLit #IndieBookstore #LiteraryEvents

Poster for “Friday Night Poetry,” January 16, 2026, at Russell Books in Victoria, BC. Event details include open mic sign-up from 7:00–7:20 pm and a 7:30 pm start. Featured readers are Mahaila Smith, author of Seed Beetle, and Lorne Daniel, author of What Is Broken Binds Us, with brief biographical descriptions and book cover images.
2026-01-10

Calling all Canadian #IndieAuthors! If you sell on #Itchio and want to participate in a group bundle promo in March, here is a sign up sheet. All genres except erotica are welcome (because there are already tons of promo opportunities elsewhere for that genre), you just need to be Canadian and selling on Itchio.

#bookstodon #books #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #Canada #CanLit #CanKidLit

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

2026-01-06

The City & The City posted their 2025 bestsellers and we love to see a Stelliform book on the list! Also of note: the book is on the list because it is great, yes, but also because The City & The City read and loved it and recommended it and made it a bookclub feature. Indie bookstores are THE BEST.

#indiebooks #indiebookstores #bestseller #lynnhutchinsonlee #originsofdesireinorchidfens #bestof2025 #canadianbooks #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianauthor #books #bookstodon #booklover

Repost of Top 11 bestsellers from The City & the City books
Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Canadian_Eh@mas.to
2025-12-18

A Novelist's Alter Ego

Robertson Davies, a key figure in Canadian literature, was known for novels like 'Fifth Business.' Less known is his work's connection to Jungian psychology, exploring archetypes & the subconscious. His famous public persona, with its flowing beard and grand style, was said to mirror the wise 'magus' characters found in his fiction, blurring the line between the author & his creation. #Canada #RobertsonDavies #CanLit #Jung

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertso

Davies in 1982
2025-12-15

ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.

Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: briefecology.com/p/no-desert-d

#rebeccacampbell #theothershore #shortstories #shortstorycollection #canlit #canadianliterature #canadianauthor #speculativefiction #sffh #bookstodon #books

On a black and white forest background, the cover of Rebecca Campbells short story collection THE OTHER SHORE. The text reads: Eco-fiction Review: The Other Shore by Rebecca Campbell, from Stelliform Press. The places in The Other Shore don’t sit stationary, but drift across distances and into pasts, presents, and futures. There’s a lot to think about in these pages and I recommend picking up this collection if you like speculative fiction that skews to the literary.
2025-12-14

My spoken lyric video Life’s Bad Novel is up on YouTube

#lyrics #spokenword #narrativepoetry #canlit

youtu.be/7RUat8r0J_8?si=URr1n3

2025-12-01

ICYMI, The Woodlot published a thoroughly delightful review by Pearl Pirie of Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE. If you still haven't picked up your copy, you truly can't miss with this debut collection.

Read the whole review here: the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/29/see

#poetry #canlit #canadianauthor #speculativepoetry #sfpoetry #poetrycollection #debutcollection #books #bookstodon

"How can you not love a poem which is entitled “Hi! I am your Cortical Update!”? It is gratifying to read what you haven’t read before. I can open at any page and find something striking, unforeseen and deftly worded." - Pearl Pirie, for The Woodlot
2025-12-01

if you're looking for gifts, my garbage proems are a great gift for those who have everything, and you're supporting a Canadian small press above/ground press, maybe subscribe too?

#poetry #sff #prose #smallpress #canlit

abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/

2025-11-30

My spoken lyric video Said No One Ever is now up on YouTube.

Steven Mayoff is a Canadian novelist, poet and lyricist. His web site is www.stevenmayoff.ca

#lyrics #spokenword #narrativepoetry #canlit #literature #homemadevideo #gratitude #satire

youtu.be/Chm9YeT4reQ?si=HHy-5o

Heritage House Publishingheritagehouse
2025-11-26

Your child’s bookshelf is more Canadian than you think! Support Canadian-owned kids’ book publishers, like Heritage House, to share and celebrate diverse stories.
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With thanks to illustrators Julie Flett, Isabelle Malenfant, and Tim Mack.

2025-11-24

Just found that the Ottawa International Writers' Festival is on the fediverse but not active. Been trying to get them to cross post here for a bit. Maybe if I remind them that someone there joined, they'll make the time.

#OIWF #canlit #writersofmastodon

mstdn.ca/@Writersfest

2025-11-21

I also learned that my latest book, which just came out, is apparently eligible for some of the bigger awards. So if you're able to nominate/vote and are looking for new reads, may I awkwardly suggest Chalice of Caladriai?😊

#books #bookstodon #reading #CanLit #CanKidLit #CanadianAuthor #Canadian

A cream-coloured square image with a thin glittery gold frame and a matching gold script font that says "Awards Eligibility". Underneath the title is a cover of Chalice of Caladriai and to the right of that is a list of awards for which is eligible to be nominated: Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, Hugo Award, Lodestar Award, Aurora Award.
2025-11-18

My spoken lyric video Who Gets Remembered? Is now on YouTube

©Who Gets Remembered? By Steven Mayoff 2023

Who Gets Remembered? appeared in my short story Foreword, published in Midlvlmag in 2024

Steven Mayoff is a Canadian novelist, poet and lyricist. His web site is www.stevenmayoff.ca

#lyrics #spokenword #narrativepoetry #canlit #literature #homemadevideo #posthumous #recognition #remembering

youtu.be/xVlWlmLu0PY?si=Bb5POQ

Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Canadian_Eh@mas.to
2025-11-16

A Novelist's Alter Ego

Robertson Davies, a key figure in Canadian literature, was known for novels like 'Fifth Business.' Less known is his work's connection to Jungian psychology, exploring archetypes & the subconscious. His famous public persona, with its flowing beard and grand style, was said to mirror the wise 'magus' characters found in his fiction, blurring the line between the author & his creation. #Canada #RobertsonDavies #CanLit #Jung

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertso

Davies in 1982
Lawrence Nault- Stone & SignalMountainHermit
2025-11-11

Every map has edges. Every edge hides a story.
MacIver Kids Adventures — eco-mystery + science for curious 12–16s (and the adults who read with them).
Nine MacIver teens. One family notebook. Clues → patterns → warnings — from coastlines to distant moons.
Start with Book 1: LOMA 👉 books2read.com/u/bpkQa6

Books 1–3 out now; more coming soon.

Lawrence Nault- Stone & SignalMountainHermit
2025-11-07

After the Kamloops Lake derailment—where officials now estimate ~80,000+ litres of jet fuel spilled and nearby communities shut or limited water intakes—Draconim: Lacrima Mortis hits painfully close.
A YA eco-fantasy about a train crash, poisoned water, and teens choosing courage. Book 1 of the Draconim series.
Read/discuss: books2read.com/u/mgekQD

2025-11-07

This 4th and final instalment of Keith Burgoyne’s and my interview about Swinging Between Water and Stone (Galleon Books, 2025) is a double-header, where I read an excerpt from a seven-poem cycle that alternates between the present and the past, and an early poem that uses humour as a means of discovering my identity as an Islander by Choice.

#poetry #literature #CanLit #CanadianPoetry #interview #PrinceEdwardIsland #PEI #charlottetown #SpokenWord

youtu.be/T2Q91ldoyqU?si=6Fxiaa

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