- Rattling Books just put out a call for submissions to their Earlit Shorts series that I was raving about not long ago. Short of the Journey Prize anthologies, it’s one of the hippest anthology series in Canada. You want to get in on this. Click Here.

- Anansi’s June contest is for a chance to win a copy of Kathleen Winter’s buzzed book, Annabel. Click Here and try to win. Or, even better, the first few people to buy it right from Anansi’s website get a free handmade bookmark, made by Kathleen herself.

- A huge chunk of Phillip Lee’s Bittersweet: confessions of a twice-married man is excerpted in the June 2010 edition of Reader’s Digest. Notable, right? Click here to read more about Lee’s book.

- Des Walsh’s film, an adapatation of his poetry book, Love & Savagery (see Salty Ink’s article, trailer included) is currently being shown, five times, at the  2010 Shanghai Film Festival!

- I’ve been updating about Kenneth J. Harvey’s new novel, Reinventing the Rose – how it set a record by being published in Russia before Canada, and then I mentioned it’s been a Russian bestseller for months now, upping the record to “Harvey is the first Canadian to be a Russian bestseller before his book is available in Canada.” And now: you can read the first 25 pages of his novel  on his newly renovated website!