We’re halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox! Here’s a recap of what’s been happening lately.

Recent Reviews & News

A roundup of recent reviews, interviews and news from Gaspereau Press authors:

• Congratulations to Bren Simmers, who won the 2025 Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize for her body of work. Her collection The Work was published in 2024 and nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry.

• Rob McLennan reviews Alexander Hollenberg’s Human Story will not Consume the Cosmos

• Bronwen Adam interviews Marco Melfi, author of Routine Maintenance, for The Woodlot

• Kim Fahner reviews Ian LeTourneau’s Metadata from a Changing Climate for FreeFall Magazine

• “Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates” —Elena Johnson interviews Natalie Rice for EVENT Magazine

• Emily-Jane Hills Orford reviews Michael Goodfellow’s Folklore of Lunenburg County for Arc Poetry Magazine

New Space

The press is set up in its temporary winter space in Sackville, with in floor heating:

Publishing News

New books are forthcoming this spring by Leesa Dean and Ian Roy. In the meantime, the press is currently focused on printing out-of-stock titles as quickly as possible.

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Until next time~

This post first appeared in our Substack newsletter.