Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee! This collection of twenty essays […]
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Happy Book Birthday to Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo 🎊 🎊
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, […]
Continue readingCelebrating 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 […]
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