Rattling Books Blog

Patrick Warner, heretofore author of brilliant poetry, is now the proud da of a novel, double talk , which Michael Crummey describes as ...

Just before American writer and adventurer (remote islands were his specialty) George Allan England went to the Newfoundland seal hunt in 19...

April is National Poetry Month, and Rattling Books has published an audio collection of poetry by one of Canada's youngest and best poet...

Riddle Fence , a journal of arts and culture based in St. John's, Newfoundland, and Rattling Books are holding a short fiction contest....

Bruce Johnson will be launching his debut novel, Firmament (Gaspereau, 2010), on Tuesday, March 29, at The Ship Pub in St. John's, Newfo...

Click here to listen to WAM's interview with Rattling Books owner Janet Russell, and actor Frank Holden, narrator of Vikings of the Ice ...

Finding the Words is a new anthology published by McClelland & Stewart in support of PEN Canada , the national arm of the global non-p...

Rattling Books is the only Canadian contender for a 2011 Audie , the audio book industry’s Oscar equivalent. Vikings of the Ice , RB'...

Now that Valentine's Day is over, and all the heart-shaped boxes of chocolates are on sale for a fifth of their former price, it's t...

Kathleen Winter's debut novel, Annabel , has been nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Read all about it in the Montreal Gazet...

Robin McGrath is one of Newfoundland and Labrador's most prolific writers, and she's also a scholar of the North. Read a recent inte...

*************** Ooops . . . This blog erroneously reported earlier in the week that Richard Cumyn was the Cumyn in the above video. But ...

Author and actor Joel Thomas Hynes is about to become a director. Hynes is currently looking for production money for Clipper Gold , a shor...

According to a recent article in the National Post , CBC's annual Canada Reads - "CBC's annual battle of the books, where five...

This week is Freedom to Read Week. Think Canadians are free from the worst excesses of censorship? Click here for a list of some of the boo...

Read The Globe and Mail 's review of Canadian writer Beverly Akerman's debut collection of short stories, The Meaning of Children . ...

Newfoundland actor and writer Andy Jones and the Growing Up, Up In Cove Collective will present a performance based on the Abbie Table at th...

Canadian writer Michael Winter's novel The Death of Donna Whalen has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada...

Follow this link to read an interview with Newfoundland singer and folklorist Anita Best about the ballad in Newfoundland culture. ******...

Ophelia's Valentine's Song To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To ...

Listen to e.e. cummings' poem "My Sweet Old Etcetera," in which the author muses upon war and love. *************** Click ...

On Sunday, February 13, the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador will be presenting Ain't Poetry Grand 4 , a Valentine...

Kathleen Winter's debut novel, Annabel , has placed first in the literary fiction category of the inaugural Independent Literary Awards....

Memorial University's current Writer in Residence, Jessica Grant, will be giving a public reading at the Petro-Canada Hall on Thursday, ...

Read Russell Wangersky's musings on the relativity of time. Listen to excerpts from Rattling Books' audio edition of Russell Wange...

Read an interview with Jessica Grant, in which she talks about how she got her start as a writer, and discusses her new position as Writer ...

Richard Cumyn and John Steffler will be reading at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, on Monday, February 7, as part of the Loren...

Click here for Kathleen Winter's on-line journal, We Drank Cachaca and Smoked the Green Cheroot. Listen to excerpts from Rattling Boo...

Comedian Andy Jones will be presenting Letters from Uncle Val at the Imperial Theatre in Saint John, New Brunswick, on Friday, February 4....

Actor Gerard Whelan (a.k.a. Gerard Neil) narrates David Macfarlane's The Danger Tree , coming soon from Rattling Books.