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April.25.11 Bitter Medicine is a finalist for the $10,000 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award! A huge congratualtions to Clem Martini and Olivier Martini. Thier graphic memoir,

April.25.11 Freehand Books featured in the Calgary Herald. We recently had the great pleasure of hanging out with Eric Volmers from the Calgary Herald and

April.11.11 Natalie Olsen’s design process for Not Anyone’s Anything featured in Quill & Quire. Check out the Cover to Cover section in the May issue of

April.7.11 Bitter Medicine is a finalist for the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to Clem and Olivier Martini! Their memoir Bitter Medicine is on the

April.7.11 Here Is Where We Disembark is a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award! Congratulations to Clea Roberts! Her poetry collection, Here Is Where

April.7.11 A Description of the Blazing World reviewed in the Telegraph-Journal and on The Coast. “Murphy is an artful storyteller, mixing humour and suspense in

April.1.11 Kristen den Hartog profiled in the National Post Kristen den Hartog sat down with the National Post’s Mark Medley to chat about her new

March.9.11 Tangles reviewed by Priscila Uppal on CBC Radio Canada One of our favourite bibliophiles, Priscila Uppal, chats about Tangles on CBC Radio Canada. Listen

March.7.11 Tangles wins a CBC Bookie! A hearty congratulations to Sarah Leavitt! Tangles won the CBC Bookie for Best Comic or Graphic Novel. Check out

February.8.11 Bitter Medicine reviewed in The Malahat Review and Event  Heather Birrell, writing in Event, calls Bitter Medicine “not only remarkable, but lovely, resonant and important,”

January.17.11 Yasmin Ladha interviewed by rob mclennan  Yasmin Ladha chatted with rob mclennan as part of his 12 or 20 questions series: “When I write,

January.17.11 Here Is Where We Disembark reviewed in BC Studies!  “The great pleasure in what Don McKay calls these ‘frostbitten brevities’ is that of place