📢 AWARD NEWS
Congrats to Ben Ladouceur & Shani Mootoo! I Remember Lights is a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, and Starry Starry Night is a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Award for Multicultural Fiction! 🎉
Learn more:
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Thank you to @clmporg.bsky.social for including Wordly Girls by @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social and Toxemia by @christinemcnair.bsky.social in this terrific reading list for Women's History Month.
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Today we're highlighting a new novel! Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is an expansive and moving story about family, environmental activism, climate change, secrets, and loss, set in a small mountain town.
Read an excerpt from the book here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-fall-d...
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We're delighted to see that Junie by Chelene Knight and Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo are among the top 50 books from indie literary publishers that Canadians borrowed from libraries the most in February!
Touch the Donkey supplement #295 : seven questions for Tanis MacDonald / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ;
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D. Nandi Odhiambo introduces his forthcoming novel Amapiano Eyes, out March 24, 2026 from Book*hug Press!
Amapiano Eyes is available for pre-order now! Save 10% on all pre-orders from Book*hug’s online store! You can also pre-order a copy through your local bookstore by talking to a staff member!
NEW @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social @themockler.bsky.social #SendMyLoveToAnyone #SMLTA #The TinderSonnets @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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TORONTO LAUNCH
JENNIFER LOVEGROVE @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social
The Tinder Sonnets @bookhugpress.bsky.social
07 APRIL 6PM BURDOCK MUSIC HALL 1184 Bloor St W w/Andrew Kaufman + @itsakirby.bsky.social
RSVP: burdockbrewery.com/pages/music-hall
Read an excerpt of THE DISAPPEARING ACT (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) by Maria Stepanova (translated by Sasha Dugdale), and take a closer look at this spellbinding novel-in-translation!
#AmReading #Novel #Translation #Fiction
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Today, we are thrilled to welcome the first title from our spring 2026 season: The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, the renowned Russian author of In Memory of Memory, and translated by Sasha Dugdale. Available now:
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Go/No-Go: A Journey Into the Research and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders by Marianne Apostolides is selected as a "best science pick" of the week by Nature magazine.
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✨Announcing✨
Book*hug Press presents the Toronto launch of The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove. With special guests KIRBY and Andrew Kaufman. Books will be for sale and, of course, the author will be signing.
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"Starry Starry Night is a work of autofiction and a compelling coming-of-age story of love and loss and disillusionment..." Melanie Marttila reviews Shani Mootoo's latest book for The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/starry-sta...
"you is a work of masterful writing honoured by a highly accomplished translation.” Susan Wismer reviews you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erin Moure, for The Miramichi Reader. miramichireader.ca/2026/02/thro...
The latest episode of the BOOKSPO podcast with host Kerry Clare features an interview with Shani Mootoo, author of Starry Starry Night.
Listen here: kerryreads.substack.com/p/season-4-e...
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We're over the moon that The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken, has been longlisted for #InternationalBooker2026! 🎉Congrats to all the longlisted authors, translators, and their publishers!
Learn more about The Wax Child here:
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Going door-to-door for the Jehovah’s Witnesses prepared Tamara Jong to be a writer.
@bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social discusses her memoir, Worldly Girls, on CBC Bookends with Mattea Roach.
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🌲 COMING SOON! 🌲The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston, published by Book*hug Press, April 21, 2026
Request a review copy:
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Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability by Therese Estacion is named a Most Anticipated 2026 Spring Nonfiction book by @49thshelf.bsky.social. Jelly, Baby will be released on April 28 and is available now for pre-order.
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"This book was birthed out of the manic impulse to process an all-consuming experience." Tree Abraham chats about her latest book, elseship: an unrequited affair, with Marlies Dubois on @thewoodlot.bsky.social
the-wood-lot.ca/2026/02/12/t...
What a great event it was!!
✨Edmonton✨
VER/SE POETRY presents Shani Mootoo, author of Oh Witness Dey! & Starry Starry Night! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Shani read in your great city! Books will be for sale, as well as a special edition Broadside of Shani’s work!
✨Edmonton✨
VER/SE POETRY presents Shani Mootoo, author of Oh Witness Dey! & Starry Starry Night! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Shani read in your great city! Books will be for sale, as well as a special edition Broadside of Shani’s work!
KIRBY x 4 #LIVE
MARCH 14 Little Lit Fest @thegrandlondon.bsky.social
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APRIL 7 @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social
MAY 28 @thedonpyle.bsky.social
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JULY 6 #LochBaillie @gooselane.bsky.social
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Marlies Dubois interviews Tree Abraham about her new @bookhugpress.bsky.social poetry collection, "elseship," for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social :
A yellow toned graphic with a photo of lemon meringue pie in the lower right corner that reads "Make a lemon meringue pie with Tamara Jong"
In need of a sweet treat? Tamara Jong, author of WORLDLY GIRLS (@bookhugpress.bsky.social), gives us a baking lesson on this edition of Test Kitchen with a lemon meringue pie recipe is rooted in a childhood memory.
Get the full recipe at: alllitup.ca/test-kitchen...
Thank you to @49thshelf.bsky.social for including our forthcoming poetry collections in the Most Anticipated Spring 2026 Poetry preview, including I Used to Be a Pisces by Camilla Gibb, The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social
& Gold Star by Emma McKenna. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...
