Metonymy Press
@metonymypress.bsky.social
Small queer press based in Tio’tià:ke. We publish literary works by emerging writers — books that reframe power and affirm life. We really want to keep gay book lovers satisfied. https://linktr.ee/metonymypress
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Preorder SHARP PINK CLAWS & support queer lit
We’re excited to publish two new anthologies that showcase work from some of our brilliant authors but we need some extra help getting there! As you all know, things have been hard for small publisher...
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Surprise book drop! Preorder your copy of this new two-volume collection featuring 11 of your favourite Metonymy authors! gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
jiaqing wilson-yang is one of 11 Metonymy authors featured in Sharp Pink Claws, our new two-volume collection, out next month. Pre-order your copies today! gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
jiaqing wilson-yang is one of 11 Metonymy authors featured in Sharp Pink Claws, our new two-volume collection, out next month. Pre-order your copies today! gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
Surprise book drop! Preorder your copy of this new two-volume collection featuring 11 of your favourite Metonymy authors! gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
Preorder SHARP PINK CLAWS & support queer lit
We’re excited to publish two new anthologies that showcase work from some of our brilliant authors but we need some extra help getting there! As you all know, things have been hard for small publisher...
gogetfunding.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Surprise book drop! Preorder your copy of this new two-volume collection featuring 11 of your favourite Metonymy authors! gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
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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!!!
Poetry
The Sacred Heart Motel by Grace Kwan (@metonymypress.bsky.social) 9781998898169
Fiction
The Cipher by Genni Gunn (Signature Editions) 9781773240985
Congratulations!!!
July 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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!!!
Poetry
The Sacred Heart Motel by Grace Kwan (@metonymypress.bsky.social) 9781998898169
Fiction
The Cipher by Genni Gunn (Signature Editions) 9781773240985
Congratulations!!!
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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?
This Pride Month, the stakes are clear | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: An encampment eviction has exposed a divide in Toronto's queer community. The problem is deeper than it seems
xtramagazine.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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 ❤️
June 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A few pics from last weekend’s overwhelmingly beautiful anniversary cabaret. Thanks, all ❤️
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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 🏳️🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
June 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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 🏳️🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
Love to see #SmallBeauty by jiaqing wilson-yang on this list 🪿
Pride Month reads: 9 LGBTQ-themed books by Asian authors to add to your reading list
These LGBTQ books, all by authors who come from Asian backgrounds, explore identity, desire and belonging beyond Western narratives.
www.tatlerasia.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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...
Writes of Passage - Read Quebec
Metonymy Press, Montreal’s beloved queer and feminist indie publisher, is still going strong, with April 26th, 2025 marking the ten-year anniversary of its debut publication.
readquebec.ca
May 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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...
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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.
Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza.
Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, and Sarah Bernstein are among the dozens of prominent authors who are auctioning off signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza,…
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May 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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.
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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
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
May 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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
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
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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
May 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
April 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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
#transrightsreadathon
21 books bringing transgender visibility to book lovers
Independent booksellers, libraries and Trans Rights Readathon organizers share their favorite books written by and about trans people.
19thnews.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And still more love for Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
#transrightsreadathon
#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”
A Small Press Book We Love: Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—wh…
lithub.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“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!
March 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Congrats to the editors and all the contributors of El Ghourabaa!
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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
2025 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Announced | The Publishing Triangle
The Publishing Triangle, the association of LGBTQ+ people in publishing, today announced forty-one finalists for the 37th annual Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ+ books published in...
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March 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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
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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)
💌 Saturday, Feb 22, 12 - 5
💌 Co-op Agenda (6692 St-Denis)
February 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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)
💌 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
February 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Joining with several other cultural orgs in Quebec to reassert our firm commitment to @pacbi.bsky.social #bdsmovement #freepalestine #pacbi
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After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.
The Giller Prize has (finally) cut ties with Scotiabank.
After fifteen months of protests, boycotts, and pressure campaigns (from Can Lit Responds, No Arms in the Arts, and other activist groups within the Canadian literary community), the Giller Prize&#…
lithub.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.
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“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?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
“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?”
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Markus Harwood-Jones signing their book THE HAUNTING OF ADRIAN YATES (@metonymypress.bsky.social) at our booth!
January 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
January 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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-...
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...
The latest from @razorfemme.bsky.social in @xtramagazine.com
xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
Trans representation isn’t trans liberation | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: Even at its zenith, the trendiness of “diversity” appears to have done little to improve the day-to-day lives of trans people as a vulnerable and exploited class
xtramagazine.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“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...
The latest from @razorfemme.bsky.social in @xtramagazine.com
xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
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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!
Trans Fem Literary Springtime - Notes - e-flux
McKenzie Wark provides a roundup of forthcoming fiction and literary nonfiction by and about trans women.
www.e-flux.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM