In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are thrilled to bring you an excerpt from Chelene Knight’s Dear Current Occupant, a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through […]
Continue readingHi, everyone! My name is Mary Ann, Book*hug’s new student intern. I’m so excited to get started, to get out of what has risked becoming a repetitive routine of researching and writing papers, and dip my toes into a very different type of literary experience. As a life-long reader and lover of all things books, […]
Continue readingWe have learned that a book we recently published by Shannon Webb-Campbell titled Who Took My Sister? is causing pain and trauma to members of Indigenous communities. In particular, work in this book has inflicted additional and unnecessary trauma to the family of Loretta Saunders, as well as to other families of Murdered and Missing […]
Continue readingCertain events have transpired recently in a bid to discredit one of our authors, Erin Wunker. In case you missed the whole debacle, a screen capture of a recent Facebook post by Erin was acquired, through questionable means, by Angie Abdou, who then sent it to Jonathan Kay who shared it on Twitter in an […]
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