Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 We are proud to be a publisher that makes room for stories like these; West Indian, Nepali, Ghanaian, South Asian and diaspora voices, all under one Canadian roof. 📚 Explore the catalogue — link in bio #CanadaDay #MawenziHouse #CanLit #IndependentPublishing

Join us for the launch of Crescendo by Mekyle Ali Qadir 📅 June 29, 2026 🕡 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 The Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop (The Atelier) 95 Clegg Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4 Scan the QR code to RSVP @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social @carleton.ca #MawenziHouse #BookLaunch #Crescendo

Join us for the launch of Crescendo by Mekyle Ali Qadir 📅 June 29, 2026 🕡 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 The Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop (The Atelier) 95 Clegg Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4 Scan the QR code to RSVP @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social @carleton.ca #MawenziHouse #BookLaunch #Crescendo

June 21 = National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada 📚✨ 6 books to add to your reading list: → Assi Manifesto → Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes → Message Sticks → SH (The Doctor) → Following Shimun → To Change the World Swipe → save → share → read. #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay #ReadIndigenous

THE WORLD CUP STARTS TODAY. ⚽📚🔥 Group B is live. 🇨🇦 Canada → Waiting for the Rain 🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina → Confluences I 🇶🇦 Qatar → An Island Is a World 🇨🇭 Switzerland → Behind the Face of Winter Which team are you reading with? 👇 #ReadingTheWorldCup #WorldCup2026 #MawenziHouse

Happy Publication Day to Mekyle Ali Qadir! 🎉 Crescendo is out now, a debut poetry collection navigating Sufi mysticism, partition and the Pakistani-Canadian diaspora. Available now via mawenzihouse.com 📖 @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social @diasporadialogues.bsky.social @carleton.ca @octopusbooks.ca

🏳️‍🌈 HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈 This Pride Month, we’re celebrating voices across our catalogue that speak to identity, tenderness, self-discovery, resistance, joy and all the beautiful complexity of being human. @wearequeeraf.com @bookspotlight.bsky.social #PrideMonth #MawenziHouse #QueerStories

a moment, to move through this book by Ottawa writer Carolyn Ramzy // @mawenzihouse.bsky.social

OOOPS, the secret is out. 🎶 CRESCENDO by Mekyle Ali Qadir, a debut poetry collection at the crossroads of Sufi mysticism and diaspora. It drops June 10, 2026. Pre-order at mawenzihouse.com @robmclennan.bsky.social @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social

This month we’re opening the Mawenzi House archives and assigning books to World Cup teams based on VIBES. Arrival of the Snake-Woman A Phial of Passing Memories The Alphabet of Aliens A Quiet Disappearance Welcome to Reading the World Cup. #ReadingTheWorldCup #BookTok #WorldCup #MawenziHouse

A little peek before the reveal… Think you can guess the title? Comment below ⤵️ Full cover coming soon. @canadianpoets.bsky.social @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social @writersfest.bc.ca @wr

Karaikhola Flows launched yesterday at Audrey’s Books in Edmonton to an incredible turnout. People filled seats to celebrate literature together. Congratulations to Saraswoti, and thank you to everyone who made the evening unforgettable 💙📚 #KaraikholaFlows #BookLaunch #MawenziHouse

Hello June ☀️📚 A month for stories, celebration, reading and community. Swipe through to see what’s happening at Mawenzi House this month → @worldlittoday.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @anotherstoryto.bsky.social @quillandquire.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social

📚 Sabyasachi Nag — born Calcutta, writing from Mississauga Treaty lands is this week's author feature. The Alphabet of Aliens (Mawenzi House, 2025): prose poems about migrancy, alienation and being forever in-between. This one's worth your time. 📖 Available at Mawenzi House Publishers.

📚 THROWBACK THURSDAY Revisiting Belief by Mayank Bhatt — a powerful literary novel about faith, suspicion, identity and family. #ThrowbackThursday #CanLit #LiteraryFiction #MawenziHouse #SouthAsianLiterature @openbookon.bsky.social @missisauga.bsky.social @diasporadialogues.bsky.social

POV: you’re choosing book covers that still feel like spring even though spring is ending 🌷✨📚 soft colours floral tones pastel palettes quiet beauty books that bloom on your shelf...

Happy Africa Day 🌍 Today, we celebrate African stories that continue to challenge, heal, remember and inspire across generations and borders. We are proud to celebrate the richness, diversity and power of African literature. ❤️ #AfricaDay #AfricanBooks #AfricanWriters #MawenziHouse

Friday Author Feature: Saraswoti Lamichhane ✨ Poet and translator Saraswoti Lamichhane explores migration, rivers and belonging across Nepal and Canada in Karaikhola Flows. 📚 Available from Mawenzi House. #SaraswotiLamichhane #KaraikholaFlows #MawenziHouse

This #ThrowbackThursday, we are revisiting Picture Bride by C. Fong Hsiung. It is moving novel about migration, loneliness, identity and the quiet search for belonging. #MawenziHouse #PictureBride #ThrowbackReads #CanadianBooks #LiteraryFiction #DiasporaLiterature #IndiePublisher

Big news! 🎉 West of West Indian by Linzey Corridon has been selected for the 2026 National Caribbean American Heritage Month Book List by the Institute of Caribbean Studies. 🎉📚 Congratulations to Linzey on this well-deserved recognition. 💛 #CaribbeanLiterature #MawenziHouse

Victoria Day long weekend plans? ☕📚 From Trachea to Karaikhola Flows, from Taslim to A Quiet Disappearance, these are the kinds of stories perfect for slow mornings and long evenings. What’s on your reading list this weekend? 🌿 #VictoriaDayWeekend #WeekendReads #ReadCanadian #MawenziHouse

A beautiful and deeply thoughtful conversation with Mekyle Ali Qadir on migration, mysticism, poetry, Sufi traditions, memory and the emotional landscapes of diaspora. We’re so excited for readers to encounter Crescendo soon. 📚✨

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mekyle Ali Qadir / @mawenzihouse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/12-o...

Throwback Thursday 📚✨ The Chinese Knot and Other Stories by Lien Chao explores migration, identity, race, loneliness, and belonging in Toronto’s multicultural communities and it does so with so much emotional honesty. #BookTok #CanadianLit #AsianCanadianVoices #IndiePublishing #MawenziHouse

Between Nepal and Canada, memory continues to flow. Karaikhola Flows by Saraswoti Lamichhane explores migration, womanhood, spirituality and belonging through Himalayan landscapes and diasporic memory. 📚 Click the link in bio to order. #CanLit #Poetry #AsianHeritageMonth

May is Asian Heritage Month Celebrating some of the extraordinary Asian Canadian voices at Mawenzi House — Sabyasachi Nag, Sarmad Sehbai, Fareh Malik, Manahil & Nimra Bandukwala, and Safia Fazlul. 📚 www.mawenzihouse.com #AsianHeritageMonth #CanLit #MawenziHouse

Happy Publication Day to Karaikhola Flows by Saraswoti Lamichhane! This collection of poetry recounts stories of Himalayan villages where education brings changes, promising freedom for women. Now available at your local bookstore or through our website: www.mawenzihouse.com/product/kara...

April is better with the right book in hand! Our community has been sharing what they're reading this month and we loved it! What book are you reading? 👇 Get our last titles on our website: www.mawenzihouse.com

April is Poetry Month and we're celebrating with Linzey Corridon's debut West of West Indian: a powerful, queer Vincentian-Canadian collection and winner of 2025 Hamilton Literary Award. Meet the author this month with @theampersandreview.bsky.social @gritlitfestival.bsky.social and Shab-e She'r.

Join us for the book launch of WANDERINGS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ANGLOPHONE NEPALI DIASPORA POETRY on Thursday, March 12 from 4-6 pm at the University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literature (Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto, Room 113). Please RSVP: bit.ly/3OLYlA8

Taslīm: We are the Prophets, Poems on a Coptic Girlhood is ultimately a feminist manifesto for freedom and the choice to live and desire out loud. Taslīm: We are the Prophets was reviewed in Herizons magazine. Now available to order from your local bookstore, or from our website: bit.ly/4h0MzL8

6/10 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @westofwestindian.bsky.social @mawenzihouse.bsky.social @secondstory.bsky.social @figure1publishing.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

7/10 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @dundurnpress.bsky.social @mawenzihouse.bsky.social @thirdworldpress.bsky.social @uwpbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

We're featuring another one of our 2016 backlist books! Today, we're highlighting Belief by Mayank Bhatt.

Koom Kankesan, author of Killing Shakespeare, will be doing a free talk at the Toronto Metropolitan University on Tuesday, March 10 from 5:30 om to 7:30 pm. Copies of Killing Shakespeare will be available to purchase, and light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

What We Carry: Winter 2026 is here – a seasonal book list tracing stories of migration, movement, and ancestral memory. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @mawenzihouse.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...

🚨Giveaway Alert! 🚨 Through 49th Shelf, we are giving away THREE copies of Trachea this month. Head over to 49th Shelf's website to enter the giveaway: bit.ly/4rT33Ky

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: West of West Indian by Linzey Corridon & A Phial of Passing Memories by James Yékú (both @mawenzihouse.bsky.social). See alt-text. @westofwestindian.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booklovers

Happy Publication Day to Trachea: a novel in linked stories by Mayank Bhatt! We are very grateful to have published this novel.

We've got the perfect YA book for you to read after watching Hamnet: Killing Shakespeare by Koom Kankesan. Killing Shakespeare follows three high school students who acquire a time-travel device and plan to burn down the Globe Theatre, so they never have to study Shakespeare again...

In TRACHEA (@mawenzihouse.bsky.social), Mayank Bhatt traces struggles with marriage, identity & even the weather through linked stories told in refreshing, direct prose. Vivid & uncompromising, the novel captures the realities of becoming a new Canadian. Read an excerpt: alllitup.ca/excerpted-tr...

Linzey Corridon will be at Sharp Words at Bridgeworks in Hamilton for the Hamilton Literary Awards Reading and Discussion on January 31 from 3:30-4:30. We will have a table there with a selection of our titles available for purchase.

Our first book of 2026 is coming out on February 10! Trachea: a novel in linked stories by Mayank Bhatt is a vivid existential novel about an uncomfortable, uncompromising new Canadian.

Throwback Thursday: 2016 edition. The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth is an anthology of 21 personal stories by women from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. What we get is a complex of stories, all challenging conventions and stereotypes, united by two ideas: Islam and nationality.

We will be at the Ontario Library Association Conference again this year! We are looking forward to connecting with some amazing librarians. KOOM KANKESAN is signing copies of KILLING SHAKESPEARE. Mawenzi House author signings will be located in the ONTARIO BOOK PUBLISHERS PAVILION.

We are happy to announce that we will be attending Sharp Words in Hamilton at Bridgeworks on January 31! We are excited to be back for another year and cannot wait to see you there! The book fair runs from 11 am to 5 pm at Bridgeworks, 100 Catherine Street North, Hamilton.

January is Tamil Heritage Month, and we wanted to highlight the Prison of Dreams (KANAVUCCHIRAI) quintet by Devakanthan, translated by Nedra Rodrigo. All five books are available on our website: bit.ly/47LceEE and can also be ordered from your local bookstore.

If you're wondering what to read this year, we highly suggest these books. We're not biased at all... These books, and others are on sale until MIDNIGHT tonight on our website 👀: bit.ly/2VTsyyo

Read an excerpt from THE ALPHABET OF ALIENS (@mawenzihouse.bsky.social), the exciting new poetry collection from Sabyasachi Nag. We've got some excerpted poems right here on Open Book! #AmReading #Poetry #Verse #CanLit open-book.ca/News/Read-an...

Read Salma Hussain's engaging interview of Monia Mazigh (pub. @mawenzihouse.bsky.social) in Iss. 33! ​Unfortunately, the economic system we live in doesn’t like motherhood. I think we remain a society that despises motherhood and continues to make it difficult www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-mazi...