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Mawenzi House brings you fantastic from Canadian and other authors.

Mawenzi House is dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh diverse writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world, particularly in Canada and the United States. We are dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world. Our focus is

on works that can loosely be termed "multicultural" (for want of a better word). Our authors come from South Asian, East Asian, African, Caribbean and Arab backgrounds. Check out our website www.mawenzihouse.com for our recent titles and full backlist. Follow us on:

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06/17/2026

This Caribbean Heritage Month, we're tracing one long migration story, across oceans, generations and tongues.

From the slave-trade memory etched into Curaçao's coastline in Sargasso Sea Scrolls by Dannabang Kuwabong, to the Indo-Caribbean rhythms of Guyana threading through Mattress Makers and A Scent of India by Sasenarine Persaud to Bittersweet, Natasha Ramoutar's homecoming between Scarborough and Guyana, to the quiet reckonings of immigrant lives in A Quiet Disappearance by Rabindranath Maharaj, to West of West Indian, Linzey Corridon's q***r Vincentian-Canadian love letter (2025 Hamilton Literary Award winner, OCM Bocas Prize shortlist), six books, six routes and one diaspora.

📚 Shop the full Caribbean Heritage Month collection — link in bio.

06/11/2026

IT STARTS TODAY. ⚽🔥
And we're reading every nation onto that pitch.
Group B is live and so are the books 📚
🇨🇦 Canada reads Waiting for the Rain — the co-hosts don't just arrive, they wait their whole lives for this. Today, the rain finally falls on home soil.

🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina reads Confluences — different peoples, different histories, one fierce footballing identity. Every current was always leading to this moment.

🇶🇦 Qatar reads An Island Is a World — they hosted the world in 2022. Now they're back with everything to prove. Today it begins again.

🇨🇭 Switzerland reads Behind the Face of Winter — 13 World Cups. Never the favourite but always dangerous. The moment is here.

The World Cup is here. The books are ready. Are you? 🏟️📖
Drop your Group B pick below 👇

06/10/2026

Happy Publication Day to Mekyle Ali Qadir! 🎉

Crescendo is here; a debut poetry collection that moves between Sufi mysticism and postcolonial inquiry, between Pakistan and Canada and between the self and the divine.

Haunted by partition, rooted in faith and alive with the textures of diaspora, these poems are, as one reviewer writes, "cold breaths, deep prayers and bursts of soulful dialogue."

A voice that promises to illuminate the dark corners of identity, belonging and the questions we've gathered the courage to ask ourselves, Crescendo is available now.

📖 Order your copy via the link in bio.

06/09/2026

Mekyle Ali Qadir sat down with Rob McClean and didn't hold back. On Sufism, leaving Pakistan, writing beyond politics and why poetry has to coexist with every other art form; this is the full conversation.

🔗 Read the interview: https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/12-or-20-second-series-questions-with_0977232603.html

📖Click the link in our bio to get your copy of Crescendo.

06/08/2026

🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Pride is a reminder that q***r stories have always existed.

At Mawenzi House, we believe literature is one of the most powerful tools for visibility. This month, we’re celebrating books from our catalogue that explore identity, love, embodiment, migration, belonging and the many ways people make space for themselves in the world.

📚 The Strike — Anand Mahadevan
A novel navigating identity, history and transformation.

📚 Wanting in Arabic — Trish Salah
Poems of longing, language, desire, and selfhood.

📚 West of West Indian — Linzey Corriden
A meditation on movement, place, inheritance and diasporic identity.

📚 Love Cake — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Poems filled with tenderness, body, intimacy and connection.

📚 Bodymap — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
A collection exploring identity, embodiment and belonging.

📚 Things She Could Never Have - Tehmina Khan
A work that engages memory, possibility and becoming.

📚 flesh. tongue — Yaya Yao
Poetry rooted in voice, intimacy and expression.

This month and every month, read widely, read q***rly and read without borders.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride from Mawenzi House.

06/05/2026

OOOPS, THE SECRET IS OUT. 🎶

A new voice is arriving and he's about to shift your orbit.

CRESCENDO by Mekyle Ali Qadir drops June 10, 2026. This debut poetry collection moves between two worlds: the mystical and the postcolonial, Sufi wisdom and the hard edges of migration, Pakistan and Canada. He lets them collide beautifully.

"If an angel can drown, then what chance does man have?"

From the rivers of the Indus to the Great Lakes shoreline, these poems ask what it costs to carry a home inside you when the country you live in keeps handing you labels instead.

Critics are already calling it "a brilliant light" and "a resonating vulnerability." We'd call it unmissable.

📖 Pre-order now at Mawenzi House Publishers — link in bio.
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06/04/2026

⚽📚 READING THE WORLD CUP: GROUP A

This month, we’re swapping for something a little different.

Welcome to Reading the World Cup, a chance to revisit books from the Mawenzi House archives through the lens of the World Cup, matching stories with countries across each group.

This week’s lineup:

🇲🇽 Arrival of the Snake-Woman — Olive Senior
🇿🇦 A Phial of Passing Memories — James Yékú
🇰🇷 The Alphabet of Aliens — Sabyasachi Nag
🇨🇿 A Quiet Disappearance — Rabindranath Maharaj

Swipe through to discover how each title connects to its country and earns its place in Group A.

Who’s making it out of the group stage? ⚽📚

Tell us your prediction in the comments, save this post for your reading list and follow our page to keep up with the next groups in Reading the World Cup.

06/03/2026

👀 Can you guess what’s hiding beneath?

We’re giving you only a glimpse.

Drop your guesses below:
📖 What do you think the title is?
🎨 What do you think the full cover looks like?

Closest guesses earn bragging rights.

Reveal coming soon.

06/02/2026

Storm clouds gathered, but readers still came.

Yesterday, Audrey’s Books in Edmonton hosted the launch of Karaikhola Flows by Saraswoti, and what unfolded was something truly special.

Despite forecasts warning of heavy rain, the room filled. People lined staircases and stood between shelves. Conversations lingered. Books passed from hand to hand. Around 100 people joined us to celebrate this beautiful collection, and approximately 70 copies found their way into readers’ hands with more now being ordered.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, listened, asked questions, stayed through the weather and helped create such a memorable evening.

There is something powerful about seeing literature bring people together like this.

Congratulations, Saraswoti and thank you, Audrey’s Books, for hosting such an unforgettable launch.

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