Bookhug Press

11/21/2025

Granville Island!

Upstart & Crow present: Poetry as Research Method: Don’t Panic and Don't Write Nature Poems, with poet Fenn Stewart, author of women & roosters and Better Nature.

In this workshop, we’ll consider poetry as a kind of research method that can help us think through crucial questions — in a time of climate crisis, on stolen and unceded Indigenous lands: Where are we? How did we get here? What do we know, and what do we still need to know, about how to be here, now?

Tuesday, November 25, 2025
6:00-7:30 pm PT
1387 Railspur Alley, Granville Island, BC
$10. RSVP here: https://upstartandcrow.com/event/poetry-as-research-method-dont-panic-and-dont-write-nature-poems/

Accessibility info: The main studio of the shop is accessible for folks with mobility aids. There is a washroom on the main floor available for attendees.

11/20/2025

❄️It’s the most wonderful time of the year ❄️

It’s time for ’s annual Holiday Open House!

Looking for the perfect gift? Book*hug has all your book needs covered this holiday season! Come stop by our office in Suite 251 to browse a selection of front and backlist titles! We’ll also have some fun holiday features for sale, including $10 mystery books, hand wrapped by our staff!☃️🏂⛷️🎁

Taking this opportunity to share some photos from our last event at 401 Richmond for back in September! We had such a blast hosting our first ever literary lounge! If you missed it, don’t miss out on The Holiday Open House! See you there!

Thursday, November 27, 2025
5:00-8:00 pm
401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, ON
Free to attend!

11/19/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the Toronto launch of Go/No-Go: A Journey into the Research and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders by . A huge shout out to for supporting this event through the Toronto Lit Up series!

Go/No-Go is available for purchase from our online store, or from your local bookseller!

11/19/2025

Reckless: The Playlist is here!

Andrea MacPherson has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her brand new poetry collection Reckless. 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

Find the full playlist on the Book*hug blog here:

Reckless: The Playlist is here! Andrea MacPherson has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her poetry collection Reckless. We hope you enjoy! Find the full Spotify playlist here. Dunna—Mac Miller NASA—Ariana Grande Silver Springs—Fleetwood Mac Heart Shaped Box—Nirvana

11/18/2025

“Jong responds to her years as a believer with curiosity, openness, and nuance. For some readers, Jong’s temerity will be what gives the book its sparkle. She writes not as an authority, but as a student of her own life.”

McKenzie Watson-Fore reviews Tamara Jong's debut memoir, Worldly Girls, for Full Stop.

This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion

11/17/2025

🚂 presents a virtual reading by , author of Starry Starry Night! ✨

Sunday, November 23, 2025
6:00 pm
Register via Eventbrite!
PWYC!

11/14/2025

“Worldly Girls contains stand-alone essays that feel like fragments of a whole, a puzzle you only to realize is incomplete when you discover the missing pieces, what has been dropped, lost, or perhaps never packed into the box.” Thank you to Junction Reads and Writes for this thoughtful review of Tamara Jong's debut memoir, Worldly Girls.

https://junctionreads.ca/junction-writes/

11/12/2025

🌹Windsor🌹

presents the Windsor launch of Worldly Girls by . Tamara will be co-launching with Kate Cayley, author of Property from Coach House Books (as well as Book*hug titles Lent and How You Were Born). Books will be for sale and he authors will be signing!

Friday, November 14, 2025
7:00 pm
Biblioasis, 2520 Wyandotte Street E, Windsor, ON
Free to attend!

11/12/2025

“Starry Starry Night is a masterpiece and one that will stay with me for a long, long time. Exquisite. Unforgettable. A precious gift.”

Justine Abigail Yu includes Shani Mootoo's latest novel in the inaugural What We Carry, a book list tracing stories of migration, movement, and ancestral memory from authors who write across intersections of identity, borders, cultures, and generations.
https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11/10/What-We-Carry-Fall-2025

11/12/2025

“Just like the scientists of the 1800s coming to grips with the reality of extinction, humans of the present day struggle with grasping the impacts of climate change and the potential for a 'sixth wave' of extinction. The Last of Its Kind offers a timely and poignant reminder that what seems to be unthinkable may in fact be all too real, while at the same time encouraging compassion for the creatures affected by humans’ actions.”

Lisa Timpf reviews The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, translated by Aleshia Jensen, for The The Seaboard Review of Books.

Reviewed by Lisa Timpf