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Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr and Crohnic by Jason Purcell are finalists for the 2026 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.
Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes) edited by Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum and a body more tolerable by jaye simpson are finalists for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards!
Join Lambda Award–winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha as they launch their long-awaited fifth collection of poems, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other—a fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other, in all our complexity.
In January 2026, the Government of Alberta implemented its discriminatory book ban, now formally in effect in schools across the province. Among the titles pulled from school libraries is Blue Is the Warmest Color, Jul Maroh's acclaimed French graphic novel that inspired the feature film that won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or.
Conor Kerr talks about Beaver Hills Forever, his poetic novella about the Métis of Alberta, with Mattea Roach on CBC Radio's Bookends.
Attention Canadian booksellers: Please note that effective February 1, 2026, Arsenal Pulp Press titles will be distributed in Canada by Jaguar Book Group (a division of Fraser Direct).