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With @reshare_app • @thebcreview Sightings (CMU Press, 2026) by Patrick Friesen. “Friesen’s focus is both personal and transformative, with poems touching on nothing less than birth, death, and the clear-seeing moments between.” Reviewed by M.A.C. Farrant. https://thebcreview.ca/2026/02/27/4839-friesen-farrant/ #bookreview #poems #poet #poetry #collection

"A tense and unusual situation boils over in this darkly entertaining psychological novel of contemporary German life." The Early Reviewers program of @librarythingofficial invites you to enter to win a copy of Elina Penner's newly translated novel "Nightberries" [Nachtbeeren]. #bookstagram /ner/detail/56357/Nightberries

Winnipeg! All are welcome at the launch of German novelist Elina Penner's NIGHTBERRIES, June 3, 7 pm, at McNally Robinson, Grant Park. Hosted by Andrew Unger. Nightberries is translated by Bradley Schmidt @leipzig_is_lit from Nachtbeeren, published in Berlin by Aufbau Verlag @aufbau_verlage Elina Penner's visit to Canada is generously supprted by the German Canadian Congress (MB) and several anonymous donors. @mcnallyrobinson @elinapenner @ungerreview @germancanadiancongress "NIGHTBERRIES dissects the wounded heart of Nelli Neufeld with dark and lovely language. Brilliant and compelling." —David Bergen In person & livestream Info here: /event-18940/Elina-Penner-Book-Launch

Toronto! Book your (free) seat at the launch of German author Elina Penner's new novel NIGHTBERRIES, June 4, 7:00 pm at Flying Books, College Street location. "NIGHTBERRIES dissects the wounded heart of Nelli Neufeld with dark and lovely language. Brilliant and compelling." —David Bergen Info: www.flyingbooks.ca/events/5167220260604

Here's a great conversation between @carmen.lansdowne (1) & @amisahbakuri (2) of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on the @newbooksnetwork podcast, discussing Carmen's CMU Press book WEARING A BROKEN HEART ON THE SLEEVE OF CHRISTIAN MISSION. /wearing-a-broken-indigene-heart-on-the-sleeve-of-christian-mission As Dr. Bakuri says in her thoughtful introduction on the website, "Carmen's language of a 'broken heart' names the cost of remaining Christian while being Indigenous within institutions that continue to benefit from colonial structures." Many thanks to the New Books Network and Amisah Bakuri for this opportunity.

Mourn. Pray. Resist. On May 5, the National Day of awareness and remembrance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ People, we highlight the work of Indigenous publishing and bookselling on Turtle Island through (for example) Strong Nations Publishing @strong_nations , Theytus Books @theytus_books , GoodMinds.com @goodmindsindigenousbooks , HighwaterPress @highwaterpress (publisher of this book edited by Jaime Black-Morsette), and many more. #MMIWG2S #nomorestolensisters #reddressday

"An excellent resource on how to live a more meaningful and ethical life." Thanks to the Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress for the thoughtful review of Mark A. Burch's "The Sacred Path of Simplicity" in Saturday's paper. Read more at /arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2026/05/02/musings-on-voluntary-simplicity-offer-food-for-thought

Flying Books, CMU Press and River Street are delighted to host the Toronto launch of Nightberries by Elina Penner in conversation with Sherri Klassen. To RSVP, click our LinkTree bio link and go to the event page at Flying Books, College Street, Toronto. More info: When: Thursday, June 4, 2026 starting at 6:30 PM. Where: 784 College St., Toronto Ontario M6G1C6. Dream or reality, nightmare or trustworthy memory? Nightberries is a dark modern fairytale from German author Elina Penner about the enigma who is Nelli Neufeld. The quiet youngest daughter in a noisy, tangled German Mennonite family who fled from Russia in the 1990s, Nelli seems to be coping well in a traditional marriage. But what is going on in her memory? As we follow the events on two key days in 2020, we are asked riddles about Nelli that even she might not be able to answer. A hauntingly original, sometimes absurdly comic psychological tale from contemporary Germany, Nightberries has been translated into English by Bradley Schmidt from the 2022 novelNachtbeeren. Elina Penner was born in 1987 as a Mennonite German in the former Soviet Union and moved to Germany in 1991. Plautdietsch (Low German) is her mother tongue. After time spent in Berlin and the US, she now lives with her family in the East Westphalia region of Germany. She is a successful personal essayist and blogger, with many of her non-fiction pieces gathered in the 2023 collection Migrantenmutti (Migrant Mother). Nachtbeeren was her first novel. In 2025, her second novel, Die Unbußfertigen (The Unrepentant), was released in Germany. Sherri (S.L.) Klassen is the author of Menno-Nightcaps: Cocktails Inspired by that Odd Ethno-Religious Group You Keep Mistaking for the Amish, Quakers or Mormons (Touchwood, 2021. She has also published in the Conrad Grebel Review and The Journal of Mennonite Writing. She was long known for her Mennonite-themed blog: The Drunken Mennonite, some pieces of which were reprinted in The Anabaptist World Review. She has recently started writing on substack and has two novels in progress. She lives in Toronto and eats zwieback and verenijke from time to time, but never verenijke made with nightberries.

They're here! Feast on this! Our first box of Elina Penner's "Nightberries"! #newbookday #newbook

Saturday May 2, 7:00 pm. Tomorrow in Vancouver, join Patrick Friesen and Eve Joseph for a dual book launch at @upstartandcrow on Granville Island. Contact the store to book your free ticket.

The last day of National Poetry Month: we're so glad to have witnessed this country's Big Love ❤️ for poetry! Thanks to @alllitupcanada @49thshelf_reads @canadianpoets ... and of course THE POETS for all the beauty. #NPM2026

had a fascinating visit to the wonderful @hignellbookprinting in Winnipeg today to see our latest, Nightberries by @elinapenner , in the binding and trimming processes #booksbooksbooks📚