Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁https://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3ml7leaqr6c24For @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social's blog, Catherine Owen writes The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social is like "Sharon Olds meets Lisa Robertson then smashes up... Charlotte Smith's 1783 Elegiac Sonnets in a perimenopausal prowl through the sad wilds of online dating" tinyurl.com/3h9rep43 https://tinyurl.com/3h9rep4306 May 2026 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7leaqr6c24https://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3ml7kgqvm7224🎉Award News! We’re delighted that Ben Ladouceur’s debut novel, I Remember Lights, is a finalist for the 50th annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award! Congratulations to Ben! Learn more about all the 2026 finalists: thewalrus.ca/afna06 May 2026 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7kgqvm7224https://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3ml7cdd4b2224We're looking forward to joining our friends at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social and other publishing pals at the next Books and Brews at Collective Arts Brewery in Hamilton! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7cdd4b2224https://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3ml7c54j5r224We are overjoyed that I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur is a finalist for the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award! Congratulations, Ben! ✨🎊 [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7c54j5r224https://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3ml4gztslxs2o"A cautionary tale, The Fall-Down Effect urges us to be gentler with one another and the environment.” Allison Snelgrove reviews @lizjohnston.bsky.social's debut novel for The Miramichi Reader. https://miramichireader.ca/2026/04/the-fall-down-effect-by-liz-johnston/05 May 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4gztslxs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3ml4gew44lc2eHappy Pub Day to Event Horizon by Balsam Karam, tr. from Swedish by Saskia Vogel. This formally innovative, daring work of literary spec fic with a sci fi bent is about migration, exile, oppression, rebellion, protest, & a young woman’s firm belief in a better world. https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/balsam-karam/event-horizon-by-balsam-karam-translated-by-saskia-vogel/05 May 2026 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4gew44lc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mksdoenejs2m“Stewart’s stream-of-consciousness lyricism is one of the book’s greatest strengths, creating turns of phrase that are both effortlessly fluid and carefully constructed.” @manahil.bsky.social reviews women & roosters by Fenn Stewart for Room Magazine. https://roommagazine.com/reading-room/review-of-women-roosters-by-fenn-stewart/01 May 2026 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksdoenejs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkpzejfc5k2h"A gold star, as McKenna knows, isn’t only a description of a lesbian who never strayed... Most of all, it describes the experience of reading this collection, the gleam of gold amid the dross.” Carellin Brooks reviews Emma McKenna's Gold Star for @thebcreview.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mt6pkhet . https://thebcreview.ca/2026/04/27/2907-brooks-mckenna/30 Apr 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpzejfc5k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkpymsvum22h"Through tight and relatable dialogue, Johnston captures deeply entrenched family dynamics and profound truths about relationships.” Aviva Rubin reviews The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social for @thenewquarterly.bsky.social's Under Review series. https://tnq.ca/under-review-the-fall-down-effect-by-liz-johnston/30 Apr 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpymsvum22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mknk3m22zk2xDorothy Ellen Palmer reviews Therese Estacion's new essay collection Jelly, Baby for @quillandquire.bsky.social, calling it "an important contribution to a new era: books written by & for disabled people, where non-disabled readers are a welcome, but rightfully a secondary, audience.” bit.ly/4mW5Cus29 Apr 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknk3m22zk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkniu4dbz22x"The Tinder Sonnets works against the cultural invisibility of middle-aged women by insisting on the speaker’s desire, point of view and presences." melanie brannagan frederiksen reviews @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social's latest poetry collection for the Winnipeg Free Press. tinyurl.com/ytjwr2mj29 Apr 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkniu4dbz22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkkydngnvc2aHappy Publication Day to Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability by Therese Estacion, a revelatory collection of lyrical, poetic essays that explores vital themes relating to her life as a disabled person. https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/jelly-baby-essays-on-disability-and-vulnerability-by-therese-estacion/28 Apr 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkydngnvc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkkyaglcnk2aZoomer Magazine names The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social an April Must-Read Books. https://zoomer.com/zed-book-club/bookshelf/2026/04/01/showered-with-fiction-aprils-must-read-books28 Apr 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkyaglcnk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkky2uvxyc2wOur sincere gratitude to @nnelsca.bsky.social for producing both a physical and digital braille edition of Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability by Therese Estacion, available now from Lakeland Regional Library, or electronically from the NNELS repository: https://nnels.ca/items/jelly-baby-essays-disability-and-vulnerability [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkky2uvxyc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkija7sww22yThis week at Take Cover Books in Peterborough, ON! Don't miss a triple book launch for @lizjohnston.bsky.social (The Fall-Down Effect), @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social (The Tinder Sonnets), and @lauriedgraham.bsky.social (Calling It Back to Me). Thursday, April 30, 7pm. takecoverbooks.ca/events27 Apr 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkija7sww22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkij22i2qk2y"The book explores female sexual desire, current heterosexual dynamics, exposes the harms of misogyny & male entitlement and critiques these patriarchal systems." @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social goes on a coffee date with @selenamercuri.bsky.social to discuss The Tinder Sonnets. tinyurl.com/yjcrt6cc https://tinyurl.com/yjcrt6cc27 Apr 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkij22i2qk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkiik652sc2y"Although the novel’s events turn around the turn of the twenty-first century, there is an epic backdrop surrounding contemporary life in British Columbia’s timeless forest.” Michael Greenstein on The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social for The Seaboard Review of Books. tinyurl.com/3vyu6azh https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-fall-down-effect-by-liz-johnston27 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkiik652sc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkb2pfc3u22w📢 Awards News: Congratulations to renowned writer, filmmaker, and visual artist Shani Mootoo, recipient of the 2026 Blue Metropolis Violet Literary Prize! Learn more: https://bluemetropolis.org/event/the-violet-prize-awarded-to-shani-mootoo-remise-du-prix-violet-a-shani-mootoo/24 Apr 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb2pfc3u22whttps://bsky.app/profile/bookhugpress.bsky.social/post/3mkas2it7nc2wToday, we invite Camilla Gibb to the Book*hug blog to share the story of how revisiting collage work saved her from writers block, and subsequently led to the writing of her debut poetry collection I Used to Be a Pisces. https://bookhugpress.ca/on-collage-with-camilla-gibb-author-of-i-used-to-be-a-pisces/24 Apr 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:vqlbfhj724eumycn75oqjyma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkas2it7nc2w