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Back by popular demand, Coach House is bringing back its Pyramid Scheme Sale this May!

Pattison Onestop, Coach House Books and Art for Commuters (A4C) have teamed up for a third year and are pleased to announce the return of the popular city-wide, interactive media-art project, Stroll City from June 4 to June 24, 2012 on the network of Pattison Onestop’s TTC subway platform screens throughout Toronto.

Coach House is over the moon to announce that Helen Guri's debut collection of poetry, Match, was named a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

Suzette Mayr's Coach House novel, Monoceros, has been shortlisted for yet another prize: the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, given annually by the Writers Guild of Alberta for the best novel or short story collection to come out of the province.

Jonathan Ball is one of three candidates shortlisted for the John Hirsch award for Most Promising Writer as part of the 2012 Manitoba Book Awards. Balls polemical collection Clockfire offers a series of inventive, absurdist and occasionally horrific scripts for conceptual plays that could never be produced in real life.

The Coach House ebook sampler is a veritable literary antipasti platter containing excerpts from eleven recent Coach House poetry and fiction titles.

Download it for free right here.

The sampler contains excerpts from:

Autobiography of Childhood, a novel by Sina Queyras
Eye Lake, a novel by Tristan Hughes

Coach House will, as of February 14, offer free digital downloads with the purchase of any print edition (provided, of course, the book currently exists in e-format). You buy one of our print books, the electronic book is yours for the taking.

Sounds great, but how does it work? One of two ways:

We're moving! This June, Coach House switches U.S. sales and distribution. Formerly sold to retailers in the United States by Northwestern University Press, Coach House titles will now be represented by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.

On February 19, Coach House launched its free Coach House Coffee Room app, designed to make it easier to keep up with our press and our authors, wherever you might find yourself.

Use it to take a virtual tour of the Coach House, to find out when our new titles are coming out and which of our authors are on tour and what people are saying about our books. You'll also be able browse our photo galleries, book trailers, author interviews and audio content. You can even buy books using the iPhone app!

We've added a book clubs section to our website, to help you and your book club sort through Coach House novels for possible book club selections. When you select a Coach House title, you'll not only be reading compelling, Canadian-authored books, you'll also be able to discuss how the book was made, as Coach House is one of only three Canadian publishers to print its books in house!

Coffee Room

Join the Coach House C.H.I.P. (Coach House Important Person) program. Become a loyal supporter of one of Canada's finest literary presses for a low fee of just $10 a month!

Well folks, we're taking over the airways - or the, err, inter-waves - with a brand new instalment of the Coach House podcast. And we're streaming it on our website for the low low price of free.

Events

Type books, one of the most beloved bookstores in the city of Toronto, will be celebrating that wonderful and under-appreciated literary genre, the short story. See Coach House writer Heather Birrell - author most recently of Mad Hope – read in the company of Carrie Snyder (The Juliet Stories, House of Anansi) and Daniel Griffin (Stopping for Strangers, Vehicule Press).

Poetry buffs on Vancouver Island won't want to miss this triple-header at the Cadboro Bay Book Company. Beloved Ontario wordsmith Stuart Ross will join forces with the West Coast's Patrick Friesen and newcomer Susan Steudel, author of the polemical, charming and gorgeously written Coach House collection New Theatre.

Admission is free. But be sure to stock up on books while you're there.

Walid Bitar - author of the polemical, structurally intricate and politically engaged poetry collection Divide and Rule – will make an appearance at Ottawa's ever-popular Dusty Owl Reading Series. As usual, the event will take place at the Elmdale House Tavern on Wellington Street.

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