Metonymy Press
6847 St-Hubert H2S 2M7 Montreal, QC, Canada

"Reading this slim yet expansive collection is a joyride for the brain, even when it reckons with deep-rooted pain and grief." -Sarah Neilson in The Seventh Wave

Huge congratulations to brilliant writers Kama La Mackerel as well as jaye simpson and Jillian Christmas, finalists for the Writers' Trust LGBTQ2S+ prize.

From Addie Tsai Got interviewed by the wonderful Shenwei Chang for Taiwanese American Heritage Week!

A celebration of the launch of A Natural History of Transition, the debut story collection by Callum Angus Massy Arts Society and Metonymy Press present the author in conversation with Hazel Jane Plante and Corinne Manning A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow ...as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic. CALLUM ANGUS is a trans writer and editor currently based in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in Nat. Brut, West Branch, LA Review of Books, Catapult, The Common, Seventh Wave Magazine and elsewhere. He has received support from Lambda Literary and Signal Fire Foundation for the Arts, and he holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the founding editor of the journal smoke and mold. HAZEL JANE PLANTE is a librarian, cat photographer, and writer. Her debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019) was given a Lambda Literary award for trans fiction. She also releases music under the name lo-fi lioness and helms the podcast t4t, which is about writing while trans. CORINNE MANNING is a prose writer and literary organizer. Their stories and essays have been published widely, including in Toward an Ethics of Activism and Shadow Map: An Anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault. Corinne founded The James Franco Review, a project that sought to address implicit bias in the publishing industry. We Had No Rules (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020) is their first book. MASSY ARTS SOCIETY is a community hub dedicated to supporting the practices of Indigenous and underrepresented artists. Live captioning provided

What a delightful cast of works and writers in the issue - congratulations to Trish Salah and everyone involved

Meet Kezna Dalz aka @teenadultt - the perfect face and paintbrush behind the illustrations in Dear Black Girls! Pictured here holding a few copies of the book with more of her own paintings behind her. Kezna is a multidisciplinary Black artist from Montreal. She cares about representation, and portrays the beauty of womanhood, teenadult angst, and the worst of pop culture using vibrant colours. Lots and lots more images and merch on her insta, and if we're lucky the online book launch on Feb 6 with @petitedrawnandquarterly will feature a virtual studio visit

Unruly Writers Club is today at noon! Contact [email protected] to get log-in info or to join the mailing list. https://metonymypress.com/event/unruly-writers-club/

You still have a chance to pre-order Dear Black Girls by Shanice Nicole Speaks and illustrated by Teenadult! It's their first book ever and Metonymy's first hardcover children's book (definitely appropriate for all ages) and it's a real beauty to behold. Pre-orders on metonymypress.com; available in bookstores February 8th 2021.

2021 is looking good in some ways! See if you can find A Natural History of Transition by Cal Angus (and a few other things that might entice you) on this list - pre-orders on our website.

"As the first poetry collection by a self-identifying queer/trans Mauritian artist, ZOM-FAM is a milestone in Mauritian literature. ... the poetry collection explores what it means to craft life and love in the slippery spaces between diasporic, linguistic, and gender identities." -Nikhita Obeegadoo in World Literature Today https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org//zom-fam-kama-la-mack

Librarians and the rest of us are looking forward to Dear Black Girls coming out next month!

"It is this motif that echoes throughout the book: to speak even as language is lost, to make poetry despite the silence enforced by colonial rule." -Bridget Huh, in Canthius