Job Description: Assistant Editor This is a part-time, seasonal position from Nov 15 to June 15 each year. The ideal candidate will be local to Saskatoon, SK. Duties: Qualifications: This is a great entry-level opportunity for someone wanting to work in literary publishing. The ideal candidate will be very well read, with a passion for […]
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Lloyd Ratzlaff recently sat down with Green & White magazine to discuss his debut poetry collection, Walking Upstream, for their “Alumni Book Nook” feature! Read the full interview here.
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“But what makes A Snake and A Feathered Bird so enjoyable. . . is not the ground it covers but the journey itself.” Thank you to Bookstack for the wonderful review of A Snake and a Feathered Bird by Angie Ellis! Read the full review here: https://newbooks.substack.com/p/a-snake-and-a-feathered-bird
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“. . .a journey with good food, shared with family and friends.” Thank you to Elka Weinstein with the Culinary Historians of Canada for the review of Food for the Journey: A Life in Travel by Elizabeth J. Haynes! Read the full review here: https://www.culinaryhistorians.ca/wordpress/digest/book-reviews/#foojour
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“This fast-paced, well-researched book transported me and I thoroughly enjoyed all things Irish while I was away, and Finn’s important discovery that ‘though the way be winding, it gets you there. Eventually.’” Thank you to Shelley A. Leedahl with SaskBooks Reviews for the review of The Discovery of Finnegan Wilde by Caroline Pignat! Read more
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“. . . full of details, concepts and questions that are cleverly designed to keep young readers fully engaged with this very entertaining story.” Thank you Michelle Shaw with SaskBooks Reviews for the lovely review of Kohkum’s Royal Bannock by Wilfred Burton! Read the full review here.
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Our very own Elizabeth Philips was interviewed by Shauna Powers on Saskatchewan Weekend! Follow the link below to hear all about 50 years of Thistledown, including our special 50th Anniversary event at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words on July 19, 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-205-saskatchewan-weekend/clip/16158879-saskatchewans-thistledown-press-celebrates-50-years
We are thrilled to share that What Fills Your House Like Smoke by E. McGregor is a finalist for the 2025 First Book Award from the High Plains International Book Awards!! Congratulations to E. McGregor and all other finalists! The High Plains International Book Awards celebrates exceptional writing throughout Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming,
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We are thrilled to announce our Fall 2025 lineup! Coming soon: August 5, 2025: Kohkum’s Royal Bannock by Wilfred Burton, illustrated by Hawlii Pichette August 19, 2025: The Discovery of Finnegan Wilde by Caroline Pignat October 7, 2025: A Snake and a Feathered Bird by Angie Ellis Follow the links to learn more and to
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 7:00 PM at Shelf Life Books, Calgary. Join Thistledown Press and Shelf Life Books for the launch of Elizabeth J. Haynes’ Food for the Journey: A Life in Travel! This Thistledown Press 50th Anniversary Event will feature an author reading, book signing, and conversation with Joan Crate. Read the event listing
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“If you’re a reader looking for something offbeat but full of heart, go out and buy Tunnel Island. Bill Gaston will guide you into a mysterious and flawed community while demonstrating his deft handling of tone, perspective, and pacing.” Thank you Brandon Fick for the lovely review of Bill Gaston’s Tunnel Island for SaskBooks Reviews.
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It is our pleasure to announce that Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene won two prestigious prizes at the 2025 Saskatchewan Book Awards last Friday: the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award and Non-fiction Book Award! ”It’s another year to celebrate the amazing diversity of our
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We’re so proud of E. McGregor, whose poetry collection What Fills Your House Like Smoke has been nominated for the Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Poetry in English award. Says the jury: “McGregor’s What Fills Your House Like Smoke offers us a portrait in verse not only of her grandmother, but of the face and lifelines
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“It’s the essays themselves that are delicious.” Shelley A. Leedahl reviews Elizabeth J. Haynes Food for the Journey for SaskBooks Reviews. Check out the full review here.
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“These stories demand a second or even third reading as characters reappear, and some change over time. The gift of a small community is that everyone knows everyone; it’s also a bit of a curse. In Gaston’s hands, it’s mostly a gift as closeness seems to create a sense of balance.” Candace Fertile reviews Bill
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We’re very excited to announce that E. McGregor’s What Fills Your House Like Smoke has been longlisted for The League of Canadian Poets’ 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize! The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, for a debut book of poetry, is given in the memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized authors’ tours and
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Thank you Quill & Quire for the fantastic review of Bill Gaston’s Tunnel Island! “Gaston, one of Canada’s most respected writers, with multiple prize nominations and awards, renders the key dichotomies of human nature, and of life on the island – beauty and violence, trust and betrayal, isolation and community, joy and heartbreak – with
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“Poetry condenses what prose expands.” —Lloyd Ratzlaff For their Tributaries series, All Lit Up chatted with Lloyd Ratzlaff about his debut collection Walking Upstream, which is about overcoming a harsh evangelical upbringing and seeking consolation from the beauty of the natural world. Check out the interview here.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM, McNally Robinson Saskatoon, Travel Alcove & YouTube Join us for the Saskatoon launch of Lloyd Ratzlaff’s poetry collection Walking Upstream (Thistledown Press), with special guest Rita Bouvier and host Elizabeth Phillips. This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. This collection by the author of three books
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM, Munro’s Books, Victoria, BC Please join us in celebrating the launch of new books by two acclaimed BC authors: TUNNEL ISLAND by Bill Gaston and WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD by Clea Young! Highly original and empathetic, Tunnel Island features a cast of characters striving to understand and overcome their pasts through eleven
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