Bookhug Press

06/16/2026

Happy Pride Month! To celebrate we’re having a sale.
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Read with Pride, this month and all year long.
Save 20% off all available books* from June 16-30, 2026.
Use discount code readwithpride25 at checkout to save.
https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/
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06/16/2026

Pride on the Page feature number 5! Throughout Pride Month we will be spotlighting Q***r stories and voices from Book*hug’s catalogue!

Today’s feature is Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik!

Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But desire and rebellion flare, and soon Shael escapes to Riverwish, a settlement attempting to forge a new way of living that counters the camp’s repression.

***rStories +

06/15/2026

Readers’ Nook presents Jennifer LoveGrove, author of The Tinder Sonnets, live in Cobourg! Jennifer will be reading alongside Lisa Fishman, author of Write Back Now (Guernica Editions). Books will be for sale!

Tuesday, June 16, 2026
7:00 pm
Readers’ Nook, 29 King Street West, Cobourg, ON
Free to attend!

06/15/2026

Reading Habits: Liz Johnston, author of The Fall-Down Effect, on her Thomas Pynchon obsession and why Ken Follett made her angry, for the Toronto Star.

The writer of "The Fall-Down Effect" answers our author questionnaire

06/15/2026

“There is so much hope in this satisfying novel, yet it’s balanced with realism, both environmental and in its view of family relationships. Although what is destroyed—deliberately or unintentionally—can’t always be restored, with care and nurturing something different and good might grow anew.” Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is reviewed by Trish Bowering for The BC Review.

https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/21/2899-bowering-johnston/

06/15/2026

"I do think it’s important to have a voice and to use it but I am still fearful in some ways. Worldly Girls is part of that, using my voice to speak up." Tamara Jong chats with rob mclennan for his 12 or 20 (second series) Questions.

Tamara Jong is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has been published in the Humber Literary Rev...

06/11/2026

“How many warnings can one body hold?”

Gold Star, Emma McKenna’s latest poetry collection, uses memory, textures, and sensations to examine the many forms of power and what it means to hold it.

Listen to a reading from the collection and learn more about Emma’s writing process on All Lit Up.

https://alllitup.ca/poetry-in-motion-emma-mckenna-gold-star/

06/11/2026

Pride on the Page feature number 4! Throughout Pride Month we will be spotlighting Q***r stories and voices from Book*hug’s catalogue!

Today’s feature is Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo!

From celebrated writer Shani Mootoo comes an innovative and revelatory work of autofiction about family secrets, trauma, race, class, and loss.

***rStories +

06/10/2026

Tonight at Novel Idea Bookstore in Kingston!

In person at Novel Idea: SIX fiction and poetry writers—one week from tonight!

Next Wednesday, 7pm June 10th, we’re hosting these six gifted authors to celebrate the launch of their latest titles. You’ll meet our guests and they’ll introduce and read from their work. Books will be available for purchase and complimentary refreshments provided. By no means miss this evening feast of words—right here at Novel Idea!

Hollay Ghadery. Palimpsest Press. At Bay Press. Bookhug Press. Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill. Thistledown Press. Guernica Editions. Downtown Kingston

06/10/2026

The newly released Children of Fire: Kurdish Female Fighters and the Struggle for Woman, Life, Freedom by Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton is up for giveaway on 49th Shelf. Enter now for your chance to win 1 of 3 available copies. Contest closes July 1.

https://49thshelf.com/Giveaways/(offset)/10