Today, we celebrate the release of Cane | Fire by internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo. This collection of poems navigates a complex communion of past and present, […]
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Celebrating International Women’s Day: Writers on the Women Who Shaped Them
Happy International Women’s Day! In honour of the occasion, we asked a group of Book*hug authors to speak about the female writers who have had an indelible influence on their […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken 
The Spring 2022 season has officially arrived! Today, we’re kicking off the new season with the release of The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Fiction Preview: Bystander by Mike Steeves
Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Mike Steeves’s Bystander, a bold new work of intense psychological realism, and a much anticipated follow up to his critically acclaimed […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Poetry Preview: Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik
Today, we are featuring Daniel Sarah Karasik’s bold, witty, and desire-filled, sophomore poetry collection Plenitude by as part of our Spring 2022 Preview Series. Shaped by Karasik’s experience of grassroots social […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Poetry Preview: Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell
The next instalment of our Spring 2022 Preview series features Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Lunar Tides, an expansive and enveloping poetry collection which explores the primordial relationships between love, grief, and water, structured […]
Continue readingSix Black Authors To Read Now
In celebration of Black History Month and the many black voices that have shaped Canadian literature now and always, we have put together a list of six must-read black writers! […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Poetry Preview: Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo
Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series comes internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo’s Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return […]
Continue readingMany Shades of Love: A Valentine’s Day Reading List
Many a thing has been written, spoken, and sung about love. This Valentine’s Day we join the chorus with a stellar recommended reading list! The following twelve works of prose […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Fiction Preview: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken
To curb the mid-winter chill, we are kicking off our Spring 2022 Preview series! Over the coming weeks we will be introducing readers to the cast of authors and titles […]
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