Saturday, July 16 5-6 PMFREE2nd Floor LobbyMoose Jaw Cultural Centre (217 Main St. N) Join Thistledown Press and Saskatchewan Festival of Words for an evening of readings featuring Rita Bouvier, Katherine Walker, and Lee Gowan. Books by the authors will be available for purchase, with snacks and a cash bar available! The event will start […]

Sunday, July 10 at 2 PM (ET)Live on Zoom Join Thistledown Press and Another Story Bookshop for the virtual book launch of Phoebe Tsang’s debut short story collection Setting Fire to Water! Phoebe will be in conversation with Christine Fischer Guy. This event will take place live on Zoom; please register here. You can pick

To our Thistledown authors, suppliers and supporters: We’re writing today to let you know about some recent changes at TDP. At the end of April, Caroline Walker left her position as Managing Editor. We are grateful to Caroline for her contributions and we wish her all the best in the future. We now officially welcome

Saturday, July 2 at 2:00 PMToronto Public Library Beaches Branch (2161 Queen St East, Toronto) Join John Bemrose for a live, in-person book launch and reading at the Toronto Public Library (Beaches Branch). Books will be available courtesy of the official on-site bookseller, Book City! *Full vaccination and masks are much appreciated* More information here.

Sunday, June 26 at 1:30 PMParis Public Library (12 William Street, Paris, ON) Join John Bemrose and Green Heron Books for a live, in-person book launch and reading at the Paris Public Library (County of Brant Public Library – Paris Branch – 12 William Street, Paris, ON). Books will be available courtesy of the official

Congratulations Diana Hope Tegenkamp for being nominated for the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards! Diana’s book Girl running (published by Thistledown Press in 2021) is in the shortlist for Published poetry in English. Recipients of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards will be announced on June 21, 2022, which is National Indigenous Peoples Day. Check out the

Barbara Nickel and her novel Dear Peter, Dear Ulla have been chosen as a 2023 Northern Lights Nominee for the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards! Congratulations Barbara! The Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award promotes reading to grade 4-9 by offering them the chance to vote for their favourite Canadian book. You can find out more

Thistledown Press is proud to announce that two of our authors have been shortlisted for the 2022 Saskatchewan Book Awards! Theressa Slind, for the short story collection Only If We’re Caught, has been nominated for:-the Ministry of Culture, Recreation, and Sport First Book Award-the Fiction Award-the Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring

Katherine Walker’s All Is Well has been announced as a finalist for the Best First Crime Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada! The winners will be announced May 26. Learn more: https://www.crimewriterscanada.com/54-awards/current-contest/1877-2022-shortlists

Saturday May 7 @ 2 PMTHE PENNY UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE in Regina Join local poet Robert Currie for the Regina launch of his new book, Shimmers of Light: New and Collected Poems. With poems drawn from early chapbooks to brand new poems never before collected in print, this volume represents a lifetime of writing by the

Join Thistledown Press and McNally Robinson Booksellers on Thursday Apr 28 2022 at 7:00 pm to celebrate the launch of Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems. Robert will be in-conversation with David Carpenter. The launch will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Saskatoon and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream

Barbara Nickel’s Dear Peter, Dear Ulla has been selected as a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize!

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re offering 30% off all poetry titles till the end of April! Use coupon code POETRY30 at checkout. Browse our poetry selection here

Join us on Wednesday, May 4th at 7:00 pm in the Moose Jaw Public Library Theatre for the launch of Robert Currie’s newest book, “Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems”. Admission is free. https://www.facebook.com/events/2369413253194615

All of us at Thistledown Press are saddened by the news that author Harold Johnson passed away on February 9, 2022. We are very proud to have been his first publisher, and to have been able to publish five books of his extraordinary fiction. His work will live on. https://thistledownpress.com/contributor/harold-johnson/

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We are thrilled to see Robert Currie’s Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems on CBC’s list of 46 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in spring 2022! Read the full article: https://www.cbc.ca/books/46-canadian-poetry-collections-to-watch-for-in-spring-2022-1.6283877?fbclid=IwAR1DmW8ygjkv1NhX3EzQJTfBravTCx3QWWMp5ydWG9VQT42Hq3fQ8e8IeaM

Due to overwhelmingly positive feedback, we have given the greenlight to reprinting The Fifth Window by Russell Thornton! This volume of poetry, originally published in a small print run back in 2000, was recently the subject of a viral TikTok. It started simply enough: the original poster of the video heard the title of the book spoken

“A masterful and intriguing assemblage of plot elements.” – Quill & Quire Read the full review: https://quillandquire.com/review/the-beautiful-place/?fbclid=IwAR0660Egpv4jviSlAlmPoiDIyTPC8n-py5-U7gJNai4ftakHgEoGw-V8rEM

Listen to Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt discuss her new memoir, Peacekeeper’s Daughter, With Heige S. Boehm on A Writer’s Life! https://open.spotify.com/episode/7KcsdJ8KuJ3DGZTw3hI4Ii?si=jInPCwZUQyePntiqGO3vsg&nd=1