Presses Renaissance Press

A huge congratulations to Lynne Sargent whose poem "Hamilton Harbour" from A REFUGE OF TALES was nominated for an Aurora Award! You can get the whole collection here, and we can even have her sign it if you send us a message! You can also get the collection from your favorite bookstore to encourage Canada's brick and mortar bookstores.

"The book that had caught my eye on the leafless tree featured the face of Kaxail, whom some call the Maya goddess of the wilderness, made from recycled cardboa...rd, corn silk, and coffee. Inside the book, 295 handmade pages and silkscreen illustrations tell Tzotzil women’s stories of love, death, birth, marriage, sex, and survival, deploying an elaborate syntax that’s changed little since the Mayas’ rule here in the year 600. (Various attempts to kill that syntax, first by Spanish conquistadors and then by Mexico’s government, have proved fruitless.) 'We want to show the world that the Spanish conquistadors all those years ago did not destroy our culture,' Petra says as she traces the outline of Kaxail’s somber face. 'We may have changed and adapted to modern times, but our language, traditions, and way of life essentially remain the same. Recording our Tzotzil language, and bookbinding itself, is the only way we know how to protect that heritage.'" This is an amazing article, worth reading all the way through. The misdeeds of colonialism are heartbreaking in a thousand different ways, but the resilience of these women is incredible. I know the last year has been extraordinarily difficult for so many people, and I sincerely hope they've been able to keep making books.

The submission guidelines for our next Nothing Without Us anthology have just been announced. Are you disabled, neurodiverse, manage mental or chronic illness, are Blind or d/Deaf or somehow count spoons? Get writing!

Don't miss the launch party of Distant Early Warning by Elizabeth Hirst! It'll be a great time, and your ticket to PenguiCon gives you access to SO MUCH content with regards to panels and events! Don't miss it!

Take part in this awesome workshop happening Sunday!

Local author Melissa Yi is always busy, what with being a doctor... but she's been extra busy this week! Congratulations on all the news!

One week to #RenVCon! - https://mailchi.mp/4337b59a40c7/one-week-to-renvcon

Thank you, Todd Hambleton at the Standard Freeholder, for interviewing me about the Staunch Prize longlist and my upcoming thriller, Scorpion Scheme! Very touch...ed that my friends at the Cornwall Community Hospital liked and shared this article with kind words, including Tiffany Lapensee, Angel Kikkert, Stephanie Jacqueline, Tiffanie Carriere, Sandra Payne Kinstler, and Kaitlin MacLeod. I worked at CCH for 15.5 years. Some shifts were brutal. Some were merciful. But pretty much the whole time, I knew I had some of my favourite people ready to throw themselves into the fray, working non-stop, literally willing to bleed if that's what it took. Thank you, my friends. (Photo by Moment.us Photography, a local business.)

Our very first book IN COLOUR!! Grab this beautiful deluxe edition of Whispers Between Fairies, a fully illustrated book of queer fairy tale retelling by Nathan Caro Fréchette and Derek Newman-Stille, for only 25$! https://renaissance-107765.square.site//whispers-betw/199

Join us in a little over an hour!

Join us tomorrow for a reading and Q&A with Robert Hamilton, live from Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium! Robert will read from his gorgeous and touching memoir Our Story: Coming out in the time of HIV and AIDS. Don't miss it!

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Our live launch at Bakka Phoenix is happening now! Join us!

Join us in half an hour to celebrate the release of these three amazing books! The authors will be answering questions after the readings!