#canlit is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 67 people shared 245 posts with it — around 8 a day. Activity is up 39% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 4 with 16 posts.

Posts with #canlit

Jeffrey Luscombe

@jeffreyluscombe.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

At gym earlier today. Have lost 40 of my pandemic pounds (been on WW the last 8 months). Also have that Hamilton Literary Awards ceremony (my latest novel, To Refrain From Embracing, was shortlisted) mid-Dec. And can finally get back in my absent-minded-writer tweed jacket! 🤷🏻‍♂️ #hamont #canlit #books

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Heather J. “I Should Be Writing” Wood

@rollwithheather.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

A reminder that books by Canadian authors published by independently owned Canadian presses are almost always printed in Canada. The GST holiday ends on Valentine's Day so show #CanLit some love and head out to your local independent bookstore this week or next.❤️📚

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Jeffrey Luscombe

@jeffreyluscombe.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Indigo covered my name with the Canadian seal. And I’m totally okay with it! ❤️🇨🇦 #BuyCanadian #canlit

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Jeffrey Luscombe

@jeffreyluscombe.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

When my novel, TO REFRAIN FROM EMBRACING, is on Indigo’s ‘Read the North’ wall. NOW is a great time to read more Canadian literature!! #canada #canlit #tariffs #readcanadian

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Brian Busby 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰

@brianbusby.bsky.social

3 days ago

A century-old novel that anticipates A Room of One's Own by three years and is so good that I'm surprised there's never been a Virago edition. Fortunately, our own @invisibooks.bsky.social has made it available again. #CanLit #canadianliterature #booksky brianbusby.blogspot.com/2….

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Between Exhaustion and Expression

Shackles Madge Macbeth New York: Waterson, 1927 282 pages The first three pages of Shackles take the form of a letter written by the author...

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Charlene Chua

@charlenedraws.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

I put together a list of all the Canadian 🇨🇦 #kidlit books I have worked on. Every book is written by a Canadian author, and published by a Canadian publisher. Hope it’s a useful reference if you’re looking for Canadian children’s books! #canlit #IReadCanadian

Graphic list of Canadian children’s books. All books featured here have been written by Canadian authors, illustrated by Canadian illustrator Charlene Chua, and published by Canadian publishers

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Alex

@alexplatt.bsky.social

1 day ago

I feel like I’ve just been reading brilliant book after brilliant book. OMG the TALENT in this country. Anyway, I really liked this weird, tender book about a woman and her sock puppet. #canlit

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi

@debbieohi.com

over 1 year ago

Canadians! 🇨🇦 Book industry needs your help (incl. for 🇨🇦 book creators like me, whose books are published and/or warehoused in U.S.). Dept of Finance seeks feedback before April 2nd, 2025 re: tariffs, including tariffs on BOOKS coming into Canada from US: slowburnbooks.ca/april-2-… #CanLit

Text warning about an April 2 tariff: With this April 2 tariff, Canadian booksellers and publishers will face unsustainable new costs and customers will be faced with book prices beyond what they are willing to pay. Most books will be subject to the new tariff because they are warehoused in the US by publishers and distributors. Books have both US and CAD prices printed on the cover, making it difficult to increase prices to cover the tariff. Alternatively, charging the CAD cover-price and absorbing the 25% tariff (even short term) will bury many independents because the industry survives on an already small margin of profit. The tariff is detrimental to Canadian booksellers and publishers and will result in long-term negative effects to our literary community.

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Anne Denoon

@annedenoon.bsky.social

6 days ago

Mavis Gallant (1922-2014); A Fairly Good Time, 1970 This is why I love and marvel at MG: in one sentence, she interweaves Canadian, British & French cultural foibles. A Fairly Good Time is a terribly sad book overall, but it's also consistently funny. 📷François Le Diascorn #SundaySentence 📚 #CanLit

They had named it the box-room because
the term, a hangover from English novels
about little boys growing up and going to
Cambridge, sounded comic to Shirley; and
Philippe, who was grave mostly, unconscious
of the origins of all that she could hate and
yet think laughable, accepted it as one more
of the Anglo-Saxon mysteries.

A black and white photo of Mavis Gallant, smiling, seated on an armchair with her hands clasped on her knee. She wears a dotted skirt, a dark V-necked sweater and two strings of beads.

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Heather J. “I Should Be Writing” Wood

@rollwithheather.bsky.social

9 months ago

Canadian author Omar El Akkad's debut nonfiction work wins U.S. National Book Award #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/omar-e...

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Canadian author Omar El Akkad's debut nonfiction work wins U.S. National Book Award | CBC Books

Akkad's powerful memoir won the U.S.-based award. The annual literary award program celebrates and honours authors for books published in the United States roughly during the award year.

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Catherine Owen

@cowenwriter.bsky.social

about 3 hours ago

And for International Cat Day, herewith 15.5 year old Nox who never misses a morning reading books with me. #canlit

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Emma Miller 😁📚🍁

@emmadmiller.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Coming Soon, in "The Doonies" Book Five - the story of Doonie Awesome 😁 Their actual real name was Flug, and they used to be quite dull. But one day SOMETHING happened, and they suddenly decided that life is too short not to be sparkly and joyful! #writers #canlit #booksky #IReadCanadian