Freehand Books was awarded the Mel Hurtig Publisher of the Year award at the 2026 Alberta Book Publishing Awards. Congratulations to author Sharon Butala, editor
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M. Jay Smith, author of this seasons brand new short story collection Canaloupe! has been featured in All Lit Up’s “Writer’s Block”. Read the full
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Cheryl Girard of the Winnipeg Free Press has published this wonderful review of Dora Dueck’s Like a River Divides the Earth! “The themes of loss
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We’re thrilled to have three Freehand titles nominated in four categories at this year’s Alberta Book Publishing Awards! Make sure to check out the full
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Congratulations to Tim Bowling, shortlisted for the 2026 High Plains International Book Award for Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand! The nominees for the Short
Congratulations to Tim Bowling and Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction! The Alberta Literary Awards were presented
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We’ve learned that someone is emailing authors under the names of Freehand’s editors, claiming to be interested in soliciting work for the press. They’re using
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Reviewer Shazia Hafiz Ramji writes about Dania Idriss’s collection Tales of the Mountains and the Sea in Quill and Quire: “As in the liminal worlds
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Dania Idriss chats with the Calgary Herald’s Eric Volmers about her debut book, Tales of the Mountains and the Sea, which “mixes folklore, horror, coming-of-age,
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Congratulations to Mikka Jacobsen and Good Victory, shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award! The finalists are: About Good Victory, the jury (Lisa Alward, Waubgeshig Rice,
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Kerry Clare of Pickle Me This has a great review of Théodora Armstrong’s Welcome to Sunny Town: “Welcome to Sunny Town is a Künstlerroman, a beautiful
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We’re so pleased to see Heidi Greco’s review of Dora Dueck’s latest book, Like a River Divides the Earth, in the BC Review: “Dueck is
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