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Book of the Week: The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon

This week’s Book of the Week is not quite as recent but it’s a good one well worth sharing…

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Embracing the Prairie Witch

Book mail is one of our highlights here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library, but today’s package is especially exciting, an anthology edited by our very own Stacey Kondla, Prairie Witch published by Prairie Soul Press…

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Small Press Saturday: Great Plains

Happy Saturday!

It’s been another tough week in Canada and the prairies are ramping up for an unprecedented heat wave. So, I thought featuring a fabulous prairie press would be apropos.

I’m thrilled to share with you Great Plains Publications, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Small Press Saturday: Thistledown Press

This Saturday I am thrilled to share Thistledown Press with you. This small press has been around since 1975, originally focusing on poetry. Based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, this Western Canadian press has had success over the years under different owners and leadership, and has broadened their publishing scope to include novels, short story collections, creative non-fiction, poetry, and a rare YA novel.

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Small Press Saturday: NeWest Press

For this week’s Small Press Saturday, I’d like to introduce you to a press with which I have a more personal connection. Founded in 1977, NeWest Press grew out of a literary magazine, NeWest Review, established two years prior by such CanLit notables as Rudy Wiebe, Douglas Barbour, and Diane Bessai…