June.7.12 Event reviews Not Being on a Boat by Esme Claire Keith. “Freehand Books took a risk in publishing Not Being on a Boat and […]

May.28.12 Alex Leslie will be featured as part of CiTR 101.9 FM’s first-ever all-day Queer broadcast! Tune into CiTR 101.9 FM on June 1 between

May.17.12 And Me Among Them is a finalist for the Trillium Book Award!  Congratulations to Kristen den Hartog! Her novel, And Me Among Them, is a

May.17.12 Hold Me Now and And Me Among Them are finalists for Trade Fiction Book of the Year at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards!!  Congratulations to

May.7.12 Not Being on a Boat wins the McNally Robinson Book of the Year award!! Congratulations to Esme Claire Keith – her novel Not Being

May.7.12 The Globe and Mail reviews Seen Reading! “Seen Reading might be one of the most whimsical books I’ve read in a long time…We are

April.20.12 Melanie Schnell chats to the Calgary Herald. Melanie Schnell sat down with Eric Volmers at the Calgary Herald to chat about her new novel,

April.20.12 Books on the Radio reviews Seen Reading. “The magic of Julie’s book exists not only in the immediacy of her language or the power

April.20.12 The National Post reviews People Who Disappear. “People Who Disappear is full of tense families and lovers alike, whose futures are always just one

April.12.12 The Globe and Mail reviews People Who Disappear. “Leslie captures the mind’s peculiar ways of layering and transforming experience…[Her] prose surges along on enigmatic

April.12.12 The Telegraph Journal reviews Personals and Seen Reading. Mike Landry writes that Ian Williams “has a way with ballooing inconsequential small moments into great

April.12.12 Blogs, microfiction, and literary voyeurism: Julie Wilson chats to the Toronto Star. Julie Wilson was recently profiled in the Toronto Star: “Tech-savvy, au courant