CBC Short Story Prize Longlist

| POSTED: Apr 7, 2023

Contest or Award

I'm thrilled to announce that my short story 'Bird Emergent' has made the longlist for the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize!  More

Beyond Human: Tales of the New Us

Rachel A. Rosen | POSTED: Apr 6, 2023

New Publication

Read 22 stories of the human, the alien, and the artificial—including my story, "solidAIrity." Oh yes, and I also did the cover. They may soon live among us: cyborgs, genetically-enhanced humans,… More

An Evening with the Authors

Mitchell Toews
POSTED: Apr 5, 2023

Literary Reading or Event

Three ex-Steinbach, MB residents, authors Faith Eidse, Charity Schellenberg, and Mitchell Toews return home to discuss their respective 2023 book launches. TWUC member Mitchell Toews is… More

New Children's STEM Book on Polar Wildlife

L.E. Carmichael, Pen Name | POSTED: Apr 4, 2023

New Publication

On May 2, L. E. Carmichael will be celebrating the release of her 23rd children's science book, POLAR: WILDLIFE AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kids Can Press). With stunning illustrations by… More

She's a Mensch! : Ten Amazing Jewish Women

Anne Dublin
POSTED: Apr 4, 2023

New Publication

Anne Dublin's new book, "She's a Mensch! : Ten Amazing Jewish Women" was published in May 2023 by Second Story Press (Toronto). This collective biography is part 3 of the "Do you know my name?"… More

Biblioasis Spring Books Launch

Lucian Childs | POSTED: Mar 30, 2023

Literary Reading or Event

Supermarket Bar 268 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L9 Join TWUC member Lucian Childs as he reads from his debut work, Dreaming Home, as Biblioasis Publishing celebrates the launch… More

Call for Indigenous Voices Poetry and Prose

Kate Marshall Flaherty
POSTED: Mar 29, 2023

Call For Submissions

THE ANNUAL JOURNAL "PEREGRINE" IS SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORK BY INDIGENOUS WRITERS We welcome all Indigenous writers, especially those who have not historically been well… More

2024, Brief Joy in a Northern City by Brian Purdy, (neo-haiku, Alfred Gustav Press, BC, Canada)

Elke Brix (for a period in the 1990s) | POSTED: Mar 25, 2023

Member Activity

I have been acting as an Agent for my brother, Brian Purdy, for about a year and a half now as he is elderly, ill, and unable to promote his own work in this way. I am very pleased to announce that in… More

Dust Jacket text About the book Seven years after retiring from the Royal Bank of Canada, ending a thirty-seven-year career, author Yvonne Blackwood surprised her friends and family by returning to… More

Zoë Landale latest book

| POSTED: Mar 21, 2023

New Publication

Zoë Landale latest book of poetry, Orchid Heart Elegies, came out McGill-Queen’s Press in November 2022. This is her ninth book. As well she has edited two books, and her work appears in somewhere… More