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Scirocco Drama is an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, an independent publisher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We publish books that educate, entertain, and inspire! Find us at: www.jgshillingford.com
The origins of Playing Shylock & creating a play with/for the incredible @saulrubinek.bsky.social This'd be the first draft of the introduction for the script, which is being published Spring 2026 by @sciroccodrama.bsky.social 😍 🎭https://leirenyoung.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-playing-shylock?r=5yij
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
We've got new books on the creative life for you! ...with titles from @houseofanansi.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @dandq.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/New-Releases... #CanLit
The Winnipeg General Strike was the largest strike in Canadian history.
For five weeks in 1919, 30,000 workers brought Winnipeg to a halt.
The strike changed Canadian history forever.
This is the story of that strike.
youtu.be/Ti15nRP3zQA
A portable toilet in the Scottish Borders provided by a company called Bordaloo.
🎵 …couldn’t bescape if I bonted to 🎶
Check out our Scirocco Drama Fall 2025 releases!
Sanderling on West Sands, St Andrews. #birdingFife #BirdingScotland
Fluffy Stonechat in Snettisham this evening #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds
🚨Attention Writers!🚨 This Magazine is open to pitches for our next issue! We're looking for features, columns, back page letters, and news pieces. (More info about what we look for and how to submit at the link below.) The deadline for pitches is September 12, 2025!
this.org/contribute/
Charlie spittin' realness.
We decided to ask the authors of the Bread and Roses Award 2025 shortlist to recommend books from the last five years of shortlists - and we'll be sharing their thoughts with you on our website in the lead-up to the 2025 winner ceremony on 15th September! lighthousebookshop.com/events/bread...
🍂 What a FAB Fall Preview list @alllitupcanada.bsky.social 📚! 🙏 for including A PLACE FOR PEOPLE LIKE US by @danilabotha.bsky.social. Happy Reading! 🍂
An interesting lunch read:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Excited to be back on @cfax1070.bsky.social tomorrow (Friday, Aug 15) at 4 with Ryan Price. This week's topic is gonna be octopuses - like the octopus who borrowed someone's camera and started filming... who is almost as cool as Rambo, the New Zealand octopus octographer 🐙 @orcabook.bsky.social
The King Farmhouse
William Kurelek
1974
You wouldn't do that, would you?
Big CONGRATULATIONS to Nick Green for the Lambda nod for his smash hit play, Casey and Diana!
The late songwriter Tom Lehrer’s targets are mostly forgotten—so why do new generations keep discovering him?
SPOTLIGHT on:
Casey and Diana by Nick Green, a powerfully moving drama set in 1991 in Toronto's Casey House AIDS hospice, as residents anticipate the visit of Princess Diana.
“The most moving play of the year…Heartbreaking, deeply resonant, consoling, and a call to action.” —Toronto Star
Wheat Field
Paraskeva Clark
1936
The cover of AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, features a blue and purple bug on a black background.
AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, is a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers.
AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-... #booksky #blackbooksky
Summer Sky
A.J. Casson
1955
The Adder of Quinag Olive Fraser The grey roots circle thee, who never knew At any hour within thy travels lone A human shape but mine. Thou com’st to view, Wild, unafraid, what stands beside thy stone And gazes on thee in thy wilderness Of fifty miles. What thinkst thou of me, For I am of a race thou could’st not guess Would murder all thy hapless innocency? O mountain, take thy small heart back again And keep him in thy care when I shall go, Unvisited by all things but the rain, The hurtless sunbeams, and the winds that blow For ever in his moors. O let him hold No intricate memory of that being who stood Just once by his wild beauty, and did fold Him with a blessing alien to my blood.
The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
At any hour within thy travels lone
A human shape but mine…
—Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag”
A #poem for #WorldSnakeDay 🐍
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/adder-q...
New poetry from the wonderful Lynda Monahan!
Congratulations to Oonya Kempadoo for winning First Prize at the Guyana Prize for Literature in the Fiction category for NANIKI!
Through a spirit-inflected world, NANIKI explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea beings. #BookSky
With the longer days of summer in full swing, we’re having a flash sale so you can stock up & save on our must-have reads. Summer is the ideal time to chill and unwind with a great book.
Our Summer Vibes Only sale is on! Save 25% off all available books from July 16-20, 2025. bookhugpress.ca/shop/
Coach House author Martha Baillie (There Is No Blue) will be at the Lakefield Literary Festival! Catch her Sat., July 19, 11:30 AM - view full event details and shop tickets here: lakefieldliteraryfestival.com/2025-festiva...
Huge news in the world of Canadian literature: The Giller Prize says it will shut down at the end of 2025 if it doesn't receive federal funding: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
A gripping and timely tale of climate politics set amidst forest fires in Northern BC, read an excerpt from Peace Country by Pedro Chamale. www.playwrightscanada.com/Blog/2025/Re...
A photo of Monica, a white woman with long curly graying hair, signing copies of her book in the printshop
Impromptu book signing!
@monicakidd.bsky.social was out for a hike with her family and stopped in to sign copies of her book THE CRANE!
You can order it through our website, or stop in to pick up a copy 10:30 - 5 (except Wednesdays)