Spooky Reads: A Halloween Reading List
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 […]
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Meet Our Newest Intern: Britt
Hello there! My name is Britt. I am so excited to have joined the Book*hug Press team as a Publishing Intern this Fall. For me, this co-op term is the […]
Continue readingMeet Our Newest Intern: Hannah
Hi everyone, my name is Hannah and I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the Book*hug Press team as a publishing intern! I had a full-circle moment the other day […]
Continue readingShort Story Month: Anthologies
The last two entries in our Short Story Month series are actually anthologies! The Unpublished City, Volume 1, Edited by Dionne Brand, and Write Across Canada: An Anthology of Emerging […]
Continue readingShort Story Month: Feminist Literature
The next two collections in our Short Story Month series remind us that “women are powerful and dangerous” (Lorde). Written about the everyday issues women face – from sexual identity […]
Continue readingShort Story Month: Borges to Barthelme
Our Short Story Month continues with two highly immersive, darkly humorous collections that exist in the eye of the storm: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler and The Lightning of Possible Storms […]
Continue reading“The things we can get up to when no one is watching”: In Conversation with Marta Balcewicz
Today, we’re delighted to be in conversation with Marta Balcewicz, author of Big Shadow. An affecting novel of psychological nuance and dark humour, Big Shadow explores the costs of self-deceit, fandom, and […]
Continue readingShort Story Month: Generational Epics
The next collection in our Short Story Month series is a generational narrative so epic it had to have a post of its own. Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas is […]
Continue readingBig Shadow: The Playlist
Today’s book playlist is by Marta Balcewicz, to pair with her debut novel Big Shadow, an affecting coming-of-age novel of psychological nuance and dark humour. In an unnamed town in the summer of […]
Continue readingShort Story Month: Second Glance
Our Short Story Month series continues by celebrating those stories that make us think twice about what we’ve read – those stories that sit marinating in our minds, and like […]
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