Category Archives: Publication Day

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome the release of Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott! Named a Most Anticipated Spring 2024 Fiction title from 49th Shelf, Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise is a timely, riveting story of reclamation, matriarchies, and the healing power of traditional teachings that affirms how […]

Happy Publication Day to Holy Winter by internationally acclaimed author Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale. This profoundly moving long poem, written from Stepanova’s dacha in the Russian countryside over the winter of 2020/2021, is perfect for fans of Sylvia Plath, Inger Christensen, and Anne Carson. Maria Stepanova was a highly influential figure in Moscow’s […]

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome Disobedience, the first novel by acclaimed writer Daniel Sarah Karasik. Disobedience is a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us. Happy Book Birthday to Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Already named a “Most Anticipated” Spring 2024 […]

Today, we’re celebrating the release of These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher. Happy Book Birthday to Erin Brubacher’s These Songs I Know By Heart! Brubacher is also the co-author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography, a personal and insightful work of documentary theatre written in collaboration with Christine Brubaker, which we published in 2019. From glowing […]

Today, we’re celebrating the release of Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes by Adrienne Gruber. Happy Book Birthday to Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber! This marks Gruber’s third Book*hug Press title—in addition to her two stunning poetry collections, Q&A and Buoyancy Control—and we’re delighted that 49th Shelf and CBC Books have named it a […]

Today, we’re celebrating the release of Play by Jess Taylor. Happy Book Birthday to Play by Jess Taylor! This marks our third book with Taylor; she is also the author of the highly acclaimed short story collections Pauls and Just Pervs, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Unsurprisingly, her first novel has generated much pre-publication […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today, we’re celebrating the publication of Medium by Johanna Skibsrud! Join us in welcoming this formally inventive and deeply imaginative reflection on women’s lives throughout history. Happy Book Birthday to Medium by Johanna Skibsrud! In this highly anticipated and riveting collection of poems, Skibsrud shares the lives and perspectives of women who—in their roles as biological, […]