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Cozy Fest: The return of the all-virtual, on-demand literary festival (that you can attend in your jammies), only on All Lit Up

Cozy Fest is Back!

Cozy Fest 2025: The Comfiest Literary Festival

Grab your favourite jammies and a mug of hot tea and tune in to this year’s Cozy Fest, the comfiest on-demand book festival you’ll ever attend. Seventeen authors join us in their snuggliest apparel to read selections from their books: binge the readings all at once on our YouTube channel, or check back in each day right here to take in a daily reading or two. There are no rules here! Read on to see this year’s fantastic Cozy Fest lineup.

A graphic reading "Gift Guide Week with Selena Mercuri" There is an inset photo of Selena and her six book picks: There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie; Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo; Speech Dries Here on the Tongue by Hollay Ghadery, Resiqra Revulva, & Amanda Shankland; from time to new by Lydia Kwa; Skin by Catherine Bush, and This Report Is Strictly Confidential by Elizabeth Ruth.

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A graphic reading "Gift Guide Week with Greg Rhyno" There is an inset photo of Greg and his five book picks: Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery, Revolutions by Hajer Mirwali, Heat Wave by Maureen Jennings, RIP Scoot by Sara Flemington, and Skin by Catherine Bush.

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Congratulations to the 2025 GG Books finalists!

A hearty congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards , including these books from independent Canadian literary publishers:

The Ministry of Grace

By (author): Tara Beagan

It’s 1950 in the deserts of Southern California. Evangelist Brother Cain has a booming trade; his tent revival show move….

Island

By (author): Douglas Walbourne-Gough

Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ โ€œCanada rejected our applications….

Baldwin, Styron, and Me

By (author): Mรฉlikah Abdelmoumen

Translated by: Catherine Khordoc

Finalist for the 2025 John Glassco Translation PrizeAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the rad….

Little Pretty and The Exceptional

By (author): Anusree Roy

In the vibrant heart of Torontoโ€™s Gerrard India Bazaar, Dilpreet and his daughters, Jasmeet and Simran, are franticall….

Downed Hearts

By (author): Catherine Banks

Ten days after an air-sea disaster, an island fisherman struggles to recover from the aftermath of his participation in ….

Fall On Your Knees

Original author: Hannah Moscovitch

Adapted by: Alisa Palmer

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family ….

A Drop in the Ocean

By (author): Lea Taranto

An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma ar….

Juiceboxers

By (author): Benjamin Hertwig

A finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, a powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanis….

Farida

By (author): Monia Mazigh

Translated by: Howard Scott, Phyllis Aronoff

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Farida, a young woman in Tunis, is passionate about reading….

All Our Ordinary Stories

By (author): Teresa Wong

Longlisted for Canada Reads 2025 WINNER of 2 Alberta Literary Awards (the Memoir Award and the Wilfrid Eggleston Award f….

10:10

By (author): Michael Trussler

Longlisted, Nelson Ball Prize Escaping from the evils of the modern world into the vivid colours of a birdโ€™s plumage, ….

Uiesh / Somewhere

By (author): Josรฉphine Bacon

Winner of the Prix des libraires, the Indigenous Voices award, the Prix littรฉraire des enseignant.e.s de Franรงais, and….

Bog Myrtle

Best Books of 2024 lists: NYPL, New York Magazine, Quill & Quire โ€ข JLG Gold Standard Selection โ€ข Moonbeam Children’s….

Rise, Red River

By (author): Tara Beagan

โ€œThe map of the land is in our blood.โ€A woman trawls the bottom of a riverbed with a makeshift plough, hoping to dis….

The Inferno

By (author): Dante Alighieri

Translated by: Lorna Goodison

“Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state.” So begins Lorna Goodison’s a….

What to Feel, How to Feel

By (author): Shane Neilson

In What to feel, how to feel, Shane Neilson dazzles in the lyric essay form. Focusing on non-neurotypicality, Neilson in….

May Our Joy Endure

By (author): Kevin Lambert

Translated by: Donald Winkler

A Walrus Best Book of Fall 2024 โ€ข A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 โ€ข A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year โ€ข Winner of ….
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Congratulations to the 2025 Giller Prize longlist!

A super congratulations to the 2025 Giller Prize longlist, including these books from
independent Canadian literary publishers:

The cover of Still by Joanna Cockerline.

Still

By (author): Joanna Cockerline

Still is the story of Kayla, who lives and works on the streets of Kelowna, Canada, and of Little Zoe, a woman working i….
The cover of Astonishment of Stars by Kirti Bhadresa

Astonishment of Stars

By (author): Kirti Bhadresa

A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationsh….
The cover of The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh.

The Road Between Us

By (author): Bindu Suresh

A lover’s knot of a novel that spans continents and decades, The Road Between Us delves into the entangled lives of its ….

Sugaring Off

By (author): Fanny Britt

Translated by: Susan Ouriou

Winner of the Governor Generalโ€™s Literary Award for French-Language Fiction, Sugaring Off probes intimacy, denial, and….
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Congratulations to the 2025 QWF Literary Awards finalists!

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Quebec Writersโ€™ Federation Literary Awards, including books from independent Canadian literary publishers:

The Hollow Beast

By (author): Christophe Bernard

Translated by: Lazer Lederhendler

A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about de….

Post Mortem of the Event

By (author): Klara du Plessis

โ€œRecording the event say, I am the event.โ€ย The event represents the lyrical, but an attempt at defining the event e….

Sadie X

By (author): Clara Dupuis-Morency

Having followed the brilliant virologist Rรฉgnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a resear….

No One Knows Us There

By (author): Jessica Bebenek

From wherever I am, I will send word like a golden thread, roll an unravelling ball through time ๏ปฟtoward myself. In ….

Miss Matty

By (author): Edeet Ravel

Illustrated by: Steven Stowell

Fran longs to be a star of stage and screen, but she’s too poor to afford elocution and dance lessons. When she lands th….

Reeds

By (author): Arjun Basu

The Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family โ€” but a summer of individual changes is about to shake thei….

Eyes Have Seen

By (author): Fred Anderson

At the age of fifteen, Fred Anderson left home and was sucked into the maelstrom of the U.S. southern civil rights movem….

My Thievery of the People

By (author): Leila Marshy

From the highways of Cairo to the outports of Newfoundland, the soul-crushing cubicles of city work and the deceptive pe….

An Orange, A Syllable

By (author): Gillian Sze

The latest book by Gillian Sze, author of the Pat Lowther Memorial Awardโ€“winning book Quiet Night Think This pro….

UNMET

By (author): stephanie roberts

This is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else, you would scream / if you weren’….
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Fall Staff Picks

Here are the books we can’t wait to read this season.

A Place for People Like Us by Danila Botha.

A Place for People Like Us

By (author): Danila Botha

When Hannah meets Jillian, their connection is instant and addictive. Both unique and talented, but equally adrift in tr….
Suddenly Light by Nina Dunic

Suddenly Light

By (author): Nina Dunic

A stunning new work of intimate, nuanced, and quietly profound realism.From the award-winning author Nina Dunic, stories….

Beaver Hills Forever

By (author): Conor Kerr

An irreverent and playful novella of Metis voices that reflects the complexities of contemporary prairie life Conor Kerr….

War Resisters

By (author): Joline Martin

War Resisters offers a contemporary perspective on the struggles and triumphs of the American Vietnam War resisters who ….

Hunt, The

By (author): Nick Wilkshire

A fast-paced thriller set in the vast and rugged Yukon wilderness, The Hunt follows an unlikely duo on an exhilarating j….
Syncopation by Whitney French.

Syncopation

By (author): Whitney French

In the aftermath of a Memory War, society is fragmented into strange new cultures, castes and coalitions. Set against a ….
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Subterrane is the winner of the
Amazon First Novel Award!

Congratulations to Valรฉrie Bah for winning the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award for their book Subterrane (Vรฉhicule Press).

ebooks for everyone

In 2022 All Lit Up launched the ebooks for everyone collection: 600+ books that were converted to fully-accessible epub formats for readers with print disabilities. Browse some handpicks from our collection below.

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