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Prairie books NOW is a widely read publication dedicated to promoting books by Prairie publishers and writers. The full magazine is available online.

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10/02/2025

“For me, my role as a warrior is to hold up that mirror, and reflect what’s going on.

My words are medicine – sometimes the medicine stings, sometimes it tastes like bananas, sometimes it works, sometimes it’s a placebo, sometimes it causes reaction, and sometimes it does nothing at all. It’s the reality of coming from a place where one is honest.”

Read more about What Shade of Brown (Radiant Press) by John Brady McDonald at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/with-dry-humour-and-measured-flounce-poetry-and-prose-collection-feels-like-late-night-talk-with-an-old-friend

09/29/2025

These seven books each contribute to the conversations around Truth and Reconciliation in their own way.

Reading and writing are part of bringing the truth to light, whether that’s the lived experience of residential schools and their legacies, the displacement of Métis peoples, or the ongoing effects of the Sixties Scoop.

⁠We've collected excerpts from articles about these seven books, and a link to the full articles, as a starting point for learning and discussion to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30. Read more at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/reading-for-truth-and-reconciliation

09/25/2025

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 marks a moment to focus on the ongoing work of remembering the painful history of residential schools in Canada, honouring the survivors, and untangling the ongoing legacy of colonialism as we work toward a better future.

These seven books each contribute to the conversations around Truth and Reconciliation in their own way.

We've collected excerpts from articles about these seven books, and a link to the full articles, as a starting point for learning and discussion. Read more at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/reading-for-truth-and-reconciliation

09/23/2025

“I’d like potential readers to know that Bonememory is about many things, both personal and political: memory, family, immigration, language, friendship, intergenerational trauma, chronic illness, disability, empathy, the Holocaust, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Canadian settler-colonialism, and the pandemic.”

Read more about Bonememory (University of Calgary Press) by Anna Veprinska at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/lyrical-experimental-poems-travel-between-many-concepts-echoing-veprinskas-emigration

09/18/2025

“Mental health is not something I take lightly or for granted. I think when you have to work through trauma, especially as a writer, it sharpens your imagination of what the other people might be holding.”

Read more about A Story Can Be Told About Pain (Newest Press) by Lisa Martin at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/poets-first-novel-sees-cast-of-characters-face-up-to-pain-of-grief-war-trauma

09/16/2025

“I’m speaking to the baby d**e that I was: I see you! I remember you! I still love you!” says Lisa Baird.

“I’m invoking tenderness towards our awkward, brave, adolescent q***r selves.”

Read more about When Whales Went Back to the Water (University of Alberta Press) by Lisa Baird at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/collection-aims-to-find-hope-among-hard-times-as-trauma-is-metabolized-into-poems

09/11/2025

“One interviewee in the book tells me that when the men left, ‘they left a mess behind.’

I wanted to document that mess. I feel that the consequences of a tragedy like this on Muslim communities are incredibly obscured in the media.

Part of that tragedy is the hypersurveillance of the state, which impacted many Winnipeg Muslims in unpredictable but very harmful ways.”

Read more about Homegrown Radicals (University of Regina Press) by Youcef Soufi at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/soufi-digs-behind-the-headlines-to-find-community-impacts-after-three-men-he-knew-became-homegrown-radicals

09/09/2025

“Writing about my mental health, reaching back into my childhood, revealed the seeds of it, how it grew into something hard to handle, and how much strength and courage it took to live through the worst parts of it.”

Read more about All the Little Monsters by David A. Robertson (Harper Collins) at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/robertson-writes-a-path-to-the-future-with-weekly-handbook-reflections-on-mental-health

09/04/2025

“My aim with this book was to vent my frustrations and to expose most of the poster boys of the western canon … but as I went on, I realized that the opportunity to include alternative voices from perspectives beyond the ‘west’ was vital.”

Read more about He Who Would Walk the Earth (Fernwood Publishing) by Griffin Bjerke-Clarke at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/man-without-memory-searches-a-shifting-world-in-debut-novel-unconstrained-by-genre

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