Fernwood Publishing

07/08/2025

Save the date.
September 6th 2025

Authors Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Baker will about the second edition of their book Settler: Identity and Colonialism at the Six Nations Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford Ontario.

The event will begin at 2:30pm and refreshments and book copies will be made available.

05/08/2025

Introducing our August pick: WHERE THE JASMINE BLOOMS by Zeina Sleiman! This evocative debut, set in Lebanon in 2006, shows the diasporic experiences of two Palestinian cousins as one returns to Lebanon to meet the other, and together they uncover many more secrets about their family history. Get to know this book with our conversation with publisher Fernwood Publishing, and follow along all month for more book club goodness.

https://alllitup.ca/alu-summer-book-club-intro-to-where-the-jasmine-blooms/

05/08/2025

In this Q&A, the Palestinian Canadian writer and author of WHERE THE JASMINE BLOOMS, Zeina Sleiman, reflects on her relationship to places and the inspiration behind the novel. https://buff.ly/4DISyDC

Fernwood Publishing

17/07/2025

Join Spring’s Halifax chapter on Monday, July 21st, 6:30pm AT / 5:30pm ET / 2:30pm PT over Zoom for our discussion with David Camfield, author of “Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left.”

To register visit:

Join Spring's Halifax chapter on Monday, July 21st, 6:30pm AT / 5:30pm ET / 2:30pm PT over Zoom for our discussion with David Camfield, author of "Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left." In advance of this event, we encourage people to listen to David’s podcast (Victor's...

17/07/2025

Thanks to Tony Tracy of Spring Magazine for this thorough review of Red Flags by David Camfield.

To learn more about the book visit:
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/red-flags

For the full review visit:
https://springmag.ca/red-flags-a-necessary-reckoning-with-actually-existing-socialism-aes

An anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian introduction to the history of the USSR, China, and Cuba that asks: Were they actually on the road to communism?

10/07/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDE3MWoRNQ

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host the Toronto launch of "Health and Healthcare Inequities" by author and healthcare worker A...

03/07/2025

https://socialiststudies.ca/2025/06/co-winners-of-the-2025-errol-sharpe-book-prize-announced/

Congratulations to Andy Crosby for winning this year's Errol Sharpe Book Prize.

The Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) is an association of progressive academics, students, activists and members of the general public.

03/07/2025

In this Q&A, Jamie Brownlee and Kevin Walby discus key issues and trends associated with psychedelics today, including their concerns that psychedelics are being appropriated and commodified by institutional power structures. https://buff.ly/DO6aqaY Fernwood Publishing

02/07/2025

It's one of our favourite events of the year — the All Lit Up Summer Book Club!

Join us (again) this year as we read two thought-provoking novels, I THINK WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE by Suzy Krause (Radiant Press) and WHERE THE JASMINE BLOOMS by Zeina Sleiman (Fernwood Publishing), and do book club things.

Read more about our picks and how you can score your copies for a cool 15% off!

https://alllitup.ca/summer-book-club-2025/

30/06/2025

https://www.cbc.ca/books/10-canadian-books-to-read-for-filipino-heritage-month-1.7569761

Filipino Heritage Month is celebrated in Canada every June. CBC Books has curated a list of fiction titles written by Filipino Canadian writers.

27/06/2025

https://soniasulaiman.com/the-apocryphal-call-for-submissions/

Thyme Travellers' editor Sonia Sulaiman is now accepting submissions for a new Palestinian Horror Fiction anthology called The Apocryphal. The submissions deadline has be extended until August 31st. Apply today.

Palestinian Dark Fantasy and Horror Fiction Anthology -Call for submissions – a·poc·ry·phal /əˈpäkrəf(ə)l/ adjective adjective: apocryphal (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, althou…

23/06/2025

https://revsoc21.uk/2025/06/21/review-red-flags/

The first review of David Camfield's Red Flags is in and its very insightful. From the article:

"In the sixties the word ‘communism’ was tainted by its association with the states who claimed it as their ideology. Those days are gone, and today a new generation of revolutionaries are reclaiming communism for themselves. This is a good thing. But it’s also problematic if we simply reclaim the word and fail to think about our history. This is the subject of David Camfield’s important new book Red Flags."

"I would argue that Red Flags is timely and important because after half a century of neo-liberalism the revolutionary left is marginal internationally and we urgently need to rebuild. And at the same time global capitalism is driving us into a maelstrom of intersecting crises, global warming, war and grotesque and growing levels of inequality... To achieve this requires the development of mass revolutionary movements that look to the tradition of revolutionary socialism from below. And this requires building a left that is rooted in the present reality but learns from the past."

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century