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Jes Battis is a 2025 Lammy Award Finalist
Jes Battis is a 2025 Lammy Award Finalist

We are thrilled to announce that Jes Battis’ I Hate Parties is a finalist for the 2024 Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Poetry category. The virtual ceremony to announce winners will take place Saturday, October ...

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Fall books from Nightwood Editions!
Fall books from Nightwood Editions!

Nightwood Editions is proud to present our Fall 2025 list, offering a debut novel, three collections of poetry and crossword puzzles.   Most Grievous Fault by Meg Todd This masterful debut novel follows a ...

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Jes Battis wins Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry
Jes Battis wins Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry

We are thrilled to announce that Jes Battis won the Saskatchewan Book Awards’ Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski for their debut poetry collection, I Hate Parties. The 32nd annual awards were presented ...

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Isabella Wang is a Writers’ Trust Rising Star!
Isabella Wang is a Writers’ Trust Rising Star!

We're thrilled to announce that Isabella Wang, the author of the poetry collections Pebble Swing and the forthcoming November, November is one of five Writers’ Trust Rising Stars in 2025. The Writers' Trust ...

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Dallas Hunt’s Teeth is a finalist for a 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize
Dallas Hunt’s Teeth is a finalist for a 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize

The West Coast Book Society has announced the finalists for the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and Nightwood Editions would like to congratulate Dallas Hunt, whose poetry collection Teeth is a finalist for t...

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Rita Wong Wins the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize!
Rita Wong Wins the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize!

We're thrilled to announce that Rita Wong, the author of poetry collections  monkeypuzzle, sybil unrest, undercurrent, beholden, and forage has won the Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. The $60,000...

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Crushed Wild Mint Awarded Two BC and Yukon Book Prizes
Crushed Wild Mint Awarded Two BC and Yukon Book Prizes

We’re thrilled to announce that Jess Housty has been awarded both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for their poetry collection Crushed Wild Mint. The prizes were...

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Author Q&A with Joelle Barron
Author Q&A with Joelle Barron

Get to know Joelle Barron, author of Excerpts from a Burned Letter, a collection of poems which Ivan Coyote says "will enter you through your eyes, your throat, on the wind, and make its way into your chest,...

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Author Q&A with Dallas Hunt
Author Q&A with Dallas Hunt

Get to know Dallas Hunt through his new collection Teeth, which Quill & Quire called "an intimately written collection of poems dedicated ot the complexity of Cree and Indigenous life". From where did yo...

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Author Q&A with Amy Mattes
Author Q&A with Amy Mattes

Get to know Amy Mattes, the author of debut novel Late September, which has been called "a courageous, vivid, gritty, and surprisingly redemptive portrayal of a young woman in emotional and physical flux"...

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Bramah’s Quest Nominated for SFPA’s 2024 Elgin Award
Bramah’s Quest Nominated for SFPA’s 2024 Elgin Award

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has nominated Renee Sarojini Saklikar’s book, Bramah’s Quest (Nightwood Editions), for this year’s annual Elgin Award.

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Grandview Drive book cover on textured background, Saskatchewan Book Awards logo on the bottom right.
Tim Blackett wins Saskatchewan First Book and Fiction Book Awards

We are thrilled to announce that Tim Blackett won two Saskatchewan Book Awards—the Fiction Book Award and the First Book Award—for his debut story collection, Grandview Drive.

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