Happy Halloween! This year we are sharing this group of unsettling, spooky reads to add to your fright-filled reading lists. The works range in how they dismay or frighten, but there’s no doubt you’ll find something that guides a chill up your spine when you crack one of theirs. The following five books cause discomfort […]
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We are excited to announce the release of Vixen by Sandra Ridley! Happy Book Birthday to Vixen by Sandra Ridley! This week, we are thrilled to welcome another incredible poetry book from our fall catalogue: Vixen by award-winning author Sandra Ridley. Her latest collection is the result of a haunting chance encounter with a fox […]
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Today we’re excited to be sharing ten works that inspired Kathryn Mockler in writing Anecdotes! These are ten works that I engaged with while writing my story collection Anecdotes. It is difficult to select just ten as there are many more, but these are some of the writers, musicians, filmmakers whose work I turned to […]
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Today, Kathryn Mockler is taking us behind “I Won’t Clean the Tub,” a story from Anecdotes! The second section of Anecdotes is a series of linked autofictional coming-of-age stories. When the #MeToo Movement went viral in 2017, some survivors of abuse and sexual assault were sharing lists about all the times they had been harassed, assaulted, […]
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Today, we celebrate the release of People You Know, Places You’ve Been by Hana Shafi and Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! Happy Book Birthday to People You Know, Places You’ve Been by Hana Shafi and Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! People You Know, Places You’ve Been, the latest illustrated poetry collection […]
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Today we’re excited to be sharing nine works that inspired Paola Ferrante in writing Her Body Among Animals! Her Body Among Animals was born out of a mash-up of pop culture and literary influences. Horror and sci-fi movies and series, fairy tales and fabulist writing have all left their marks on this collection. I consider these […]
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We are excited to announce the release of Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency translated by Aimee Wall! Happy Book Birthday to Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency translated by Aimee Wall! We’re thrilled to welcome this timely and poignant novel from Clara Dupuis-Morency, brilliantly translated from French by Aimee Wall. We’ve had the fortune of publishing […]
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