Coteau Books

02/03/2020

It's Rhea on CBC.

Rue des Rosiers centres on a young Canadian woman swept up in the traumatic events surrounding a 1982 terrorist attack on a Jewish delicatessen in Paris.

01/31/2020

Look here Rhea is reading at the Jewish Book Festival Feb. 11

01/13/2020

We're thrilled to announce our new Associate Editors, Lisa Bird-Wilson and Alasdair Rees!

LISA BIRD-WILSON is a Saskatchewan Métis and nêhiyaw writer whose work appears in literary magazines and anthologies across Canada, including a semi-regular column in Geist Mag. Her short story collection, Just Pretending (Coteau Books), won four Saskatchewan Book Awards, including 2014 Book of the Year; and was the 2019 One Book, One Province selection. Bird-Wilson’s poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions 2016), is inspired by family and archival sources and reflects on the legacy of the residential school system. Her new novel, Probably Ruby (Coteau Books), will be released in Spring 2020.

photo credit: Ânskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival - SAWCI 2019

ALASDAIR REES is a Fransaskois writer working across mediums. In 2019, he was chosen as Saskatchewan’s first Youth Poet Laureate. He is a former Saskatoon individual poetry slam champion and currently teaches French at the University of Saskatchewan. His work has been exhibited across Western Canada and can be read in GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine, Urbania, Oratorealis, La r***e Moebius, and ÖMËGÄ (Metatron Press).

photo credit: Inger Bonli

12/24/2019

12/04/2019

Notice of the death of Bill Klebeck (age 63), a writer and lawyer from Wynyard, on November 29, 2019. His memorial is this Friday at 2 in Wynyard Civic Centre.

Bill had published with Coteau - Down Millgan Creek Way in 1995, part of the McCourt Fiction Series. He was one of the original members of the Poets Coterie (includes fellow Coteau Books writers Kim Morrissey, Brenda Niskala, Craig Grant, and Susan Andrews Grace). As well, his work was published in Coteau's Sundogs: stories from Saskatchewan as well as More Saskatchewan Gold. Bill Klebeck also published with Thistledown Press, was an English student at the University of Saskatchewan, and practiced law in Wynyard for many years. Bill was also a former board member of SaskCulture's predecessor, the Saskatchewan Council of Cultural Organizations, from 1989 to 1991.

For those of you who may have known Bill, here is the link to the funeral home: https://www.narfasons.com/obituary/bill-klebeck.

Celebration of Bills Life Wynyard Civic Centre 2oo pm Friday, December 6, 2019 Donations in memory of Bill may be made to the Foam Lake Golf Country Club Or Town of Wynyard - Co-operative Place, Wynyard, SK

12/04/2019

How did he get a copy of A Place You'll never Be? - Its a Coteau Book.

12/03/2019

Look here, Sharon Butala's Season of Fury and Wonder.

Canadian writer Sharon Butala talks about her story collection Season of Fury and Wonder, a fearless collection that addresses head-on the physical, emotiona...

10/26/2018

Big Congratulations to Lisa Bird-Wilson of Saskatoon, for winning the RBC Emerging Arts Award at the 2018 Saskatchewan Arts Awards last night (Oct. 25) in Regina.

Lisa's collection of fiction, "Just Pretending", published in 2013 by Coteau Books, won four Saskatchewan Book Awards.

This year "Just Pretending" was chosen as the featured book for the One Book, One Province campaign to create a reading culture in Saskatchewan. Lisa has also recently joined the Coteau Books' board of directors.