The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But […]
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Today, we’re celebrating the release of Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo. Happy Book Birthday to Oh Witness Dey! by celebrated author Shani Mootoo. Already named a “Most Anticipated” spring poetry title from Quill & Quire and 49th Shelf, Mootoo’s latest work has been generating a lot of pre-publication buzz. With this formally inventive and highly researched collection, […]
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Today we are spotlighting Michael V. Smith, author of Queers Like Me and co-author of Body of Text! B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? MVS: Every step of the publishing process with Book*hug has been so relaxed, with both my books. Hazel and Jay are the sweetest of people; they […]
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Today, we’re celebrating the publication of you by Chantal Neveu, translated from French by Erín Moure. Join us in welcoming this beautiful and heartrending long poem about a love affair in all its stages, written in precise, intimate, and lush language. Happy Book Birthday to you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure! In 2020, we published […]
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Today, Kate Cayley sits down with Alayna Munce to discuss the tenth-anniversary edition of her award-winning short story collection How You Were Born. AM: What kinds of things did you find yourself re-working in the original stories for this edition, and do you feel like those revisions had more to do with your craft developing […]
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The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher! Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other […]
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Today, we’re celebrating the publication of How You Were Born by Kate Cayley! Happy Book Birthday to How You Were Born by Kate Cayley! Originally published in 2014 by Pedlar Press, How You Were Born won the Trillium Book Award and was a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award. The stories in this collection explore themes of queer […]
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Join us today in welcoming our guest Johanna Skibsrud, author of Medium! Johanna sits down with Beatriz Hausner, author of She Who Lies Above, to answer some questions about her newest poetry collection. BH: You note, in the Preface, that Medium began and evolved over a period experienced as pregnancies, childbearing, and parenting, wisely equating […]
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Today we are introducing a new author Q&A series! As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, we’ll be sharing spotlight features on our authors. We are endlessly thankful to our authors for trusting us with their words. First up is Hasan Namir, author of Umbilical Cord and War/Torn. We hope you enjoy! Follow along throughout […]
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Happy International Women’s Day! Today (and every day) is a day to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness about discrimination, inspire inclusivity, and take action to drive gender parity. At Book*hug Press, we champion fierce, daring, and powerful women’s voices and encourage everyone to read more books by women in all genres. So, in honour of […]
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