Enter the world as seen through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn—a weary and defeated landscape, but one of inherent hope, where reinvention is possible through the seminal power of words, those elemental beings that are capable of creating realities all their own. There’s sex, there’s drugs, and there’s rock’n’roll—and all the while, there’s a young […]
Continue readingBookThug is very pleased to announce that Mike Steeves’s first novel Giving Up is a Finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2015 Concordia University First Book Award! Yesterday, in the Montreal Gazette, Ian McGillis wrote “Steeves’ book was one of the best-reviewed Canadian debuts of recent years; many were surprised when it didn’t make the national […]
Continue readingDear blog readers: my name is Emma Hambly and I’m here this week to give a small recap of my time at BookThug. My master’s program at Ryerson allowed us to complete our degree with a placement at a creative company, and I was lucky enough to intern at BookThug. I spent an engrossing two […]
Continue readingHappy Pride Weekend to all! With Pride Week 2015 celebrations taking place coast-to-coast this weekend, we’re celebrating with a selection of LGBTQ authored books we are proud to have published. Live Proud. Love Proud. Read Proud.
Continue readingGoodreads is hosting a BookThug book giveaway for 3 copies of Mike Steeves’ stunning debut novel Giving Up. Enter for your chance to win a copy of the book Miriam Toews calls “a brilliant, singular voice in Can Lit: funny and fresh and fast!” Contest closes on March 22, 2015. Open to Canadian residents only. […]
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Who is kevin mcpherson eckhoff, aka kme, aka KMac? Poet? Performer? Beloved trickster of the Canadian conceptual poetry scene? BFF of Jake Kennedy? He is most certainly the author of three books of poetry, including Rhapsodomancy (Coach House Books, 2010), Easy Peasy (Invisible Publishing, 2011) and Forge (Invisible Publishing, 2013). His chapbook, Game Show Reversed, […]
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Meet the amazing women of BookThug. In honour of International Women’s Day 2015, we’ve put together a recommended reading list of contemporary women writers, both emerging and established, we think you need to read. These 13 brilliant and fierce women push at boundaries in unexpected ways, and take you, the reader, to places you never […]
Continue readingGoodreads is hosting a BookThug book giveaway for 5 Advanced Reading Copies of Carellin Brooks’ stunning debut novel One Hundred Days of Rain. Enter for your chance to win a copy of the book that Publishers’ Weekly calls “a delectable, mesmerizing, and poetic debut novel.” Contest opens at midnight on February 16, and closes on […]
Continue readingVibrant, exciting, and playfully challenging: Meet Our Terrific Spring 2015 season We’re so excited to share our absolutely fabulous spring 2015 lineup. We’re launching 9 new titles that represent a cross-range of poetry, fiction, and entre-genre categories, on subject matter as distinctive as the writers themselves. Each of these works joins in our already existing […]
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