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 […]
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A Year in the Books: Book*hugs Recommend, the Staff Edition
Today’s chapter of Book*hugs Recommend features Book*hug staff along with (some of!) our favourite reads of the year. These are books which stuck with us, made us feel, made us […]
Continue readingHalloween 2021 Reading List 👻
There are only two days left until Halloween! Embrace the season with this handpicked selection of gory, haunted, uncanny, weird, and downright spooky reads. Ranging from horror to the horror-inspired, […]
Continue readingTen Books to Read This Short Story Month
May is Short Story Month! Please join us in celebrating this centuries-old yet endlessly versatile form.
Continue readingEight Books to Read This Halloween
We have a confession: we’re slightly fanatical about Halloween.
Continue readingSix Modern Fables for Modern Life
In a world full of stories, there are some that stick to us like burrs, told and retold with trace edits for centuries.
Continue readingIn Conversation: Jonathan Ball
“The monster is the moral centre of the horror story because the monster represents the truth of the world.” —Jonathan Ball
Continue readingFall 2020 Season Preview 🍂📚
Today, we’re excited to unveil our forthcoming Fall 2020 season!
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: kevin mcpherson eckhoff’s Their Biography: an organism of relationships
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 […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: three poems from Jake Kennedy’s forthcoming collection Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later, as an adult, he read a story about how the German artist Kurt Schwitters’ “interior house-sculpture” (“Merz Structure […]
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