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Jan.18.2016 Quill and Quire features “Fine Fiction from Freehand” in their Spring Preview Review Editor Steven W. Beattie writes about Freehand Books continuing “its tradition

Jan.7.2016 Middenrammers among 49th Shelf’s “most anticipated” The 49th Shelf has put out their lists of their most anticipated books to be released in Spring,

Jan.8.2016 Freehand Books becomes independent Freehand Books was established in 2007 as the literary imprint of the academic publisher Broadview Press. This year, Freehand is

Jan.1.2016 Greg Bechtel’s short story collection Boundary Problems shortlisted for ReLit Award The winners of the ReLit Awards will be announced in late-January. For a full

Dec.11.2015 The Afterlife of Birds featured on All Lit Up’s Super Secret Festival of Lit: “While extremely beautifully written (Philips is an award-winning poet), the

Dec.4.2015 The Vancouver Sun on The Swallows Uncaged Denise Ryan talks to Elizabeth McLean about her book, The Swallows Uncaged: “Although McLean was acutely aware

Dec.2.2015 Rhonda Douglas is interviewed by PRISM Magazine about Welcome to the Circus In an interview with Rhonda Collis in PRISM Magazine, Rhonda Douglas talks

Oct.15.2015 Beautiful Books The All Lit Up blog featured an article about The Swallows Uncaged, and its innovative design: “Elizabeth McLean asks that when you

Oct. 23.2015 The Globe and Mail features review of The Swallows Uncaged:  In an article in the Globe and Mail, Jade Colbert writes,  “The Swallows Uncaged

Oct.3.2015 Bill Robertson, of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, reviews The Afterlife of Birds In his article, “Elizabeth Philips produces the most gentle of novels,” Bill Robertson discusses a

Sept.30.2015 SubTerrain features an excerpt from The Afterlife of Birds by Elizabeth Philips Pick up a copy of the Fall 2015 edition of SubTerrain magazine for

Sept.30.2015 Elizabeth McLean, author of The Swallows Uncaged, profiled in Quill and Quire “Publishing a first book at age 73 might not be the typical writers’