Thank you to @merliterary.bsky.social for including The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social & The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social on the MER Bookself list for January 2026. merliterary.com/2026/01/20/m...

I Used to Be a Pisces, the first poetry collection from award-wining, bestselling author Camilla Gibb, is included in the 2026 Spring Preview for Poetry from @quillandquire.bsky.social. This profound new work examines our relationships to the earth and one another. quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp...

Miranda Schreiber has been longlisted for the 2025 @usrofc.bsky.social, US & Canada, for her debut novel, Iris and the Dead. Congrats to Miranda, & the other finalists and their publishers! Iris and the Dead is available from our online shop or your indie bookseller. bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social is included in the 2026 Spring Fiction Preview from @quillandquire.bsky.social.

“The eyes of the future are looking back to us.” In No One Knows Us There, Jessica Bebenek reflects on the relationship between poems and death using language that transforms the sense of loss into a tender memory for the future-self. Read Manahil Bandukwala’s full review here: buff.ly/ziuh6DO

"The important thing is to tell the truth—and often 'what happened' is only the beginning of that." @helloiamben.bsky.social, author of I Remember Lights, chats with Jasper Fleming for @eventmags.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4hxftct7

2026 is shaping to be a big year for Canadian fiction, with new books from Angélique Lalonde, Ashraf Zaghal, Yann Martel and @lizjohnston.bsky.social. Phillip Dwight Morgan and @rdassaly.bsky.social share eight novels they can't wait to read.

Announcing our Winter/2026 Season Reveal! Start making room on your bookshelves for these ten titles coming your way soon! All titles are now available for pre-order from our online shop or your local indie bookseller. bookhugpress.ca/product-cate...

The Most Anticipated Spring 2026 Fiction Preview is here from @49thshelf.bsky.social and we're thrilled to see three of our forthcoming novels on in the list, including titles from Michael Eddy, @lizjohnston.bsky.social & @dnandi.bsky.social. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...

2025 Longlist for the US/Canada Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize @usrofc.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature

"For me, writing is not only a matter of expressing my thoughts through words, but an inherently embodied process." Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There, chats with interviewer Hanna Chernoff for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social. the-wood-lot.ca/2026/01/15/n...

Interviewer Hannah Chernoff talks with Canadian poet Jessica and Bebenek about her poetry collection No One Knows Us There, out with Book*hug Press! Thank you to both Hannah and Jessica for allowing The Woodlot to host your discussion. tinyurl.com/2mt9yck4

@quillandquire.bsky.social lists The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social in their spring fiction preview. Exploring protest, climate change & fractured family relationships, this debut asks what we really owe people in our lives when we're fighting for a greater cause. tinyurl.com/3fdcreu5

Jasper Fleming interviews Ben Ladouceur about his @bookhugpress.bsky.social novel, "I Remember Lights," for @eventmags.bsky.social:

Feast your beautiful peepers on these three excellent novels on Quill & Quire’s Spring Preview! To check out the whole spring preview, head to QuillandQuire.com. quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp... @quillandquire.bsky.social

Hannah Chernoff interviews Jessica Bebenek about her @bookhugpress.bsky.social poetry collection, "No One Knows Us There," for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social:

One big throughline in our 2026 reading goals: slowing it down and spending more time with the books we pick up. Check our our reading intentions here: alllitup.ca/our-reading-...

On Sugaring Off and the sweet alchemy of translation: The Chat on @49thshelf.bsky.social with Fanny Britt, Susan Ouriou, & Hazel Millar. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...

In the Last of Its Kind, Sibylle Grimbert writes that for people living in the 19th century "the concept that a species could go extinct remained confined to paleontology. In this way, Gus becomes the first of his kind.” reviewcanada.substack.com/p/bookworm-n...

Congrats @dnandi.bsky.social! We're overjoyed that Amapiano Eyes is a selection for the Winter 2026 edition of The Booksellers' List from @indiebookstores.ca! We can’t wait for readers to meet this masterful blend of literary fiction & noir—an existential thriller where the past & present collide.

We’re thrilled to share that Amapiano Eyes by D. Nandi Odhiambo is a Winter 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List from @indiebookstores.ca! This gritty, high-stakes novel from the author of Smells Like Stars will be out on March 24. Learn more: www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781771...

Amapiano Eyes by D. Nandi Odhiambo (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) is a Winter 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List

Congrats to LPG members @arsenalpulp.bsky.social and @bookhugpress.bsky.social whose books made The Booksellers' List, celebrating the top 20 books of the season as voted on by indie booksellers across Canada via @indiebookstores.ca. Find the full list here: IndieBookstores.ca

Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for including No One Knows Us There by Jessica Bebenek and women & roosters by Fenn Stewart in this terrific 'best of' list of 2025 Canadian poetry books!

Good luck to @bookhugpress.bsky.social !

The Book*hug Press office will be closed for the holidays from Monday, December 22, 2025, until Monday, January 5, 2026. During this time, our team will take some needed downtime, but we’ll be back in the new year with an announcement about our forthcoming spring 2026 releases. See you then.

It is time for part two of the 2025 edition of our annual Book*hug Wrapped series, where we ask our staff what their favourite books of the year have been (which luckily coincides with gift giving season). bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrap...

The Seaboard Review of Books reviewer Lisa Timpf selects The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, tr. by Aleshia Jensen, as a Best of 2025 pick, saying it "offers a timely and poignant reminder that what seems to be unthinkable may in fact be all too real." www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa...

Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo and I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social are selected as top fiction books of 2025 by @49thshelf.bsky.social! ✨ 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12...

Kerry Clare names Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo as one of her three top books of 2025 on the latest episode of CBC Radio's The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thank you to The Seaboard Review of Books reviewer Pamela Sinclair for selecting Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel as a top book pick for 2025, calling it an "enjoyable read... fresh and different." Read Sinclair's full review here: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-fun-ti...

CBC Books selects Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo as a best Canadian fiction book of 2025. 🎊 www.cbc.ca/books/the-be...

No One Knows Us There by Jessica Bebenek is selected by CBC Books as a best Canadian poetry book of 2025. 🎉 www.cbc.ca/books/thge-b...

Brett Josef Grubisic selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social for inclusion in Quill and Quire's Notable Books 2025 round-up.

The Miramichi Reader selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social as a Best Fiction Book of 2025! miramichireader.ca/.../the-mira...

In this NBN episode, I speak with Tamara Jong about her breathtaking memoir, Worldly Girls ( @bookhugpress.bsky.social, 2025). Tamara memoir documents the slow unravelling of her connection to her faith and the tragic history of her fractured family. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Cary Fagan joins #ALUCozyFest beside his wood-burning fireplace to read a passage from a story about a family trip and a defining moment in a young boy’s life, from his new collection A FAST HORSE NEVER BRINGS GOOD NEWS (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) alllitup.ca/cozy-fest-ca...

It is time for the 2025 edition of our annual Book*hug Wrapped series, where we ask our authors what their favourite books of the year have been. We hope you enjoy this year's selections, and that some of these titles will end up in your to be read pile! bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrap...

"In Starry Starry Night, one major challenge was staying away from the usual story-telling ideas of the need for arc and denouement. This is tied to the reason for me calling this work autofiction." Check out Shani Mootoo in conversation with rob mclennan. robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

“At times, the prose is subtle, quiet, beautifully straightforward; other times, propulsive, almost breathlessly so, rushing.” @robmclennan.bsky.social reviews Fenn Stewart's new collection women & roosters. robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/fenn...

If you missed the reading and conversation with Shani Mootoo on Sunday, you can catch it here. @bookhugpress.bsky.social Please like and subscribe while you're there. youtu.be/J4D9XngezWI?...

Reading You Crushed It is "kind of like being an audience member at a comedy gig gone awry, watching someone self-deprecate and degenerate for laughs on-stage.” Thalia Stopa on Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard's book, tr. by Neil Smith for Scout Magazine. scoutmagazine.ca/scout-book-c...

"A novel of remembering, of the times in our lives we carry around like a precious and hefty rock in our back pocket. A novel about learning to be—for ourselves—who we want to be." @junctionreads.bsky.social reviews celebrated writer Shani Mootoo's Starry Starry Night. tinyurl.com/mru8vept

“Women and roosters..are the only kinds of creatures who don’t feel sad after sex. Well, maybe not right after. But until we can swap places...there’s no way of knowing all that’s in the lover’s heart.” Dawn MacDonald on Fenn Stewart's new work for The Seaboard Review of Books. tinyurl.com/5ej2u9ey

Review of Shani Mootoo’s epic and glorious, STARRY STARRY NIGHT from @bookhugpress.bsky.social Yes, you should read it! And join us on Sunday November 23 for a reading and conversation. Find the link to the event on our website. junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...

Finished reading Shani Mootoo’s beautiful new novel, Starry Starry Night, this evening. If you haven’t read it yet—why not? Borrow or buy it! ❤️📚 (You’ll fall in love with the character of Anju…and wonder where she’ll go after the very last line on the very last page.) @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Fenn Stewart, women & roosters / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/fenn...

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: bookhugpress.ca/reckless-the...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shani Mootoo / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...