Surprise book drop! Preorder your copy of this new two-volume collection featuring 11 of your favourite Metonymy authors! gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...

“The Sacred Heart Motel is devastating and gorgeous” arcpoetry.ca/editorials/t...

The Sunshine Coast Writers & Editors Society announces the finalists for the Poetry and Fiction awards 🙌! www.scwes.ca Poetry The Sacred Heart Motel by Grace Kwan (@metonymypress.bsky.social) 9781998898169 Fiction The Cipher by Genni Gunn (Signature Editions) 9781773240985 Congratulations!!!

The incident at Barbara Hall Park prompts the question propelling our current social moment: Who needs to get out of the way so the rest of us can enjoy the luxury of pretending that everything is all right?

A few pics from last weekend’s overwhelmingly beautiful anniversary cabaret. Thanks, all ❤️

7/ #Pride #SmallPress #books: El Ghourabaa, ed. by Samia Marshy and @elitareq.bsky.social (@metonymypress.bsky.social) & Nights Too Short to Dance by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by @kgrubisic.bsky.social (@secondstory.bsky.social). See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

Love to see #SmallBeauty by jiaqing wilson-yang on this list 🪿

Thanks to Brooke Lee and @aelaq.bsky.social for this generous profile of Metonymy Press in honour of our 10th anniversary! readquebec.ca/writes-of-pa...

Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, Sarah Bernstein and other prominent authors are auctioning signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza, a crowdfunding organization made up of disabled people from around the world.

Ooooh baby do you know what that's worth? Ooooh Heaven is a place on Earth Finally made it to Paperxclips & yeah it's everything. Books in hand: El Ghourabaa: A Queer & Trans Collection of Oddities @metonymypress.bsky.social & Grand Slam Romance 1 @abramscomicarts.bsky.social

I’m participating in the Authors for eSims for Gaza auction fundraiser. Bid on autographed books and prize bundles from your favourite authors! Funds go to Crips for eSims for Gaza’s mutual aid efforts 4 Palestinians in Gaza to connect w/each other and the rest of the world tinyurl.com/authors4esims

Been at this a decade now and it seems like a good moment to celebrate. Much gratitude to Suoni for hosting us. Come thru if you’re in MTL in June. #gaybooklovers4eva #smallpress #QTpublishing #10years

And still more love for Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante #transrightsreadathon

“The kind of book that, to me, defines small presses: daring, joyous, somehow outside what you expect from books ‘these days’ while also immediately and emphatically making you wonder why the fuck the big publishers of the world aren’t leaping at beautiful gems like this one”

Congrats to the editors and all the contributors of El Ghourabaa!

Congratulations to the @publishingtriangle.bsky.social awards finalists. An especial shout-out to books from Canadian publishers: @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @metonymypress.bsky.social, Annick Press, and their excellent authors! bit.ly/3DNXbza

Montreal friends - Tabling with some of my faves this weekend (@kersplebedeb.bsky.social, @metonymypress.bsky.social, Science for the People), at my favourite bookstore, come say hi. 💌 Saturday, Feb 22, 12 - 5 💌 Co-op Agenda (6692 St-Denis)

Joining with several other cultural orgs in Quebec to reassert our firm commitment to @pacbi.bsky.social #bdsmovement #freepalestine #pacbi

After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Markus Harwood-Jones signing their book THE HAUNTING OF ADRIAN YATES (@metonymypress.bsky.social) at our booth!

Poet Grace Kwan appears on CBC Radio’s North by Northwest to discuss their debut collection #TheSacredHeartMotel: from world-building via Pinterest mood boards to the life-saving power of poetry in a mental health crisis to migrants’ feelings of impermanence and more www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

“What would genuine political defiance for trans liberation look like? The question is more urgent than ever.” The latest from @razorfemme.bsky.social in @xtramagazine.com xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

I wrote about new books from @jeannethornton.bsky.social @torreypeters.bsky.social @harronwawker.bsky.social @veryhotmomm.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social @thedennemichele.bsky.social @cuteflesh.bsky.social @vivianblaxell.bsky.social and more!

🔥 Sending solidarity to all the seniors & disabled folks trying to survive #LAFires #LAFirestorm2025 📖Receive a signed copy of Disability Intimacy for every $100 donation to @MaskBlocLA 💰Venmo account.venmo.com/u/MaskBlocLA 📩Email receipt: [email protected]

save the date(s) : the 2025 ottawa small press book fairs, June and November (catch the fair as it turns thirty-one years old! smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2024/11/save...

ZOM-FAM by Kama La Mackerel from @metonymypress.bsky.social FEELS LIKE A MODERN EPIC TALE OF TRANS BECOMING TOLD IN POETRY. From acknowledging goddesses and ancestors, to the tale of their birth on an ill-omened day in Mauritius, their father's trip to the temple to try to amend their fates...

“The way that the novel, through Mathilda, revives decadence as an artistic expression of excess aligns well with the fight to protect marginalized lives; our bodies, just like our joy, have always exceeded state and societal attempts to restrain them.” briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Thanks to @canlesbrarian.bsky.social and @autostraddle.bsky.social for including our 2024 releases on this great year-end queer book list. #elghourabaa #thesacredheartmotel www.autostraddle.com/the-best-que...

For anyone local (Montreal) we’re having a last-minute drop-in book sale at our office this Thursday. There will be snacks! And deals! And, c/o you know who, we won’t charge you GST. Gay books make for gay holidays. Also, solidarity 4ever w CUPW / eff you Canada Post and anti-union governments!

Last event at Massy Arts happening tomorrow! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-sky-wa...

Reciting poetry on the Co-Op Agenda's stage, to help launch Grace Kwan's The Sacred Heart Motel ❤️‍🔥 Congrats, @metonymypress.bsky.social, for the gorgeous book, & thank you for letting me celebrate with you! 👉 photos by the amazing @cairenegirl.bsky.social & Benjamin Bush Anderson.

“It’s a motel, not a hotel, because I really like that grittiness and that kind of sleaziness—almost kind of dirty,” Kwan says. “It’s on the side of the road. It’s not a place you’ve looked up on the Internet and booked in advance; it’s something that you stumble upon in the middle of the night.”

Tkaronto, coming at you w a launch of Grace Kwan’s debut poetry collection, The Sacred Heart Motel. Feat special guest & local writer/translator Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi. Swing by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social for some Sunday book browsing and stick around for a sweet event. metonymypress.com/events

MIZNA 25.1: CATASTROPHE HAS ARRIVED! This issue is gorgeous and breathtaking beyond words. I hope you'll hold these words of our community, who have gathered here despite an impossible time for so many of us 🍉🇵🇸 mizna.org/product/mizn...

in El Ghourabaa: A queer and trans collection of oddities from @metonymypress.bsky.social free download for #ReadPalestineWeek metonymypress.com/shop/books/e...

#ReadPalestineWeek starts today! publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/29/f...

Come on down to The Sacred Heart Motel next Friday, December 6 in MTL.

“I was working as a server at a hotel restaurant when I started putting the poetry collection together, and became enamoured with the romance of temporary lodgings as sites where abstract ideas of placelessness, unbelonging, and memory could be situated in space.” the-wood-lot.ca/2024/10/24/n...

Grace Kwan’s “sure-footed, arrestingly wise” debut poetry collection, The Sacred Heart Motel, launches Dec 6 in Montreal and Dec 8 in Toronto. metonymypress.com/events

Find our table on the stage at Expozine in Montreal. Today only!

ok I'm putting the book on sale because everyone is doing sales right now. I'll ship it to ya with some fun stickers and if u want me to write something weird in it, I'll do that too. no promo code needed, just use da link: 2trans2furious.bigcartel.com/product/2-tr...

For the first time since 2021, I’m offering an online seminar on writing sex. Two Zoom sessions, Jan 18 & 25 (recordings will be available). W/ work by Lawrence, Baldwin, Roth, Leilani, July, & others. Full info & registration here: www.garthgreenwell.com/classes-social

Toronto! Grace Kwan will launch their debut poetry collection, The Sacred Heart Motel, at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social on Sunday, December 8 at 6pm. We’re very excited that Khashayar “Kess” Kohammadi will also be doing a reading. Stop by! #poetry #booklaunch #debutpoetry #TheSacredHeartMotel

Metonymy author Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social on the Giller Prize, the failures of the publishing industry, and “what writers owe the dead” kaichengthom.substack.com/p/what-write...

These events and more at publishersforpalestine.org/events/ & please let us know about your events for READ PALESTINE WEEK, Nov 29 - December 5.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I invite all trans folks to remember how brave we are, how beautiful, how miraculous. And I invite cis people to remember that you, too, can be as courageous and free as we are.

Metonymy alum Valérie Bah is launching their new novel - Subterrane (Esplanade Books) - this Friday night in Montreal! 👏👏👏

Some photos from last night's Boycott Giller picket and counter-gala, right at the doorstep of the Toronto Giller Prize ceremony - which went off alongside 5 other nights of counterprogramming in Montreal, Winnipeg, Fredericton, Vancouver and Halifax canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

Also btw we won’t be shipping out your web orders in “Canada” so long as CUPW is on strike. Solidarity w the posties. Thx for understanding!