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Celebrate Pride with our Marriage Equality Sale!

June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and you know Coach House (unlike some mayors) is keen to celebrate that fact. Coach House has published some of Canada's finest queer writers for decades, but our June Marriage Equality Sale is a little bit different. Instead of focusing on our gay and lesbian writers, we're celebrating marriage equality.

Andrew Faulkner is Open Book Toronto's Writer-in-Residence for June

June 3, 2013 — Need Machine poet Andrew Faulkner is this month's Writer-in-Residence for Open Book Toronto.

Tamara Faith Berger, Mathew Henderson and Matthew Tierney are finalists for the Trillium Book Awards

May 30, 2013 — Good news comes in threes (at least that's how we think the saying goes): Tamara Faith Berger, Mathew Henderson and Matthew Tierney are among the finalists for the 2013 Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's prestigious awards for literature.

Image by John Rennison, The Hamilton Spectator
Gary Barwin receives City of Hamilton Arts Award

May 28, 2013 — Gary Barwin (The Porcupinity of the Stars) has received a much-deserved award from the City of Hamilton, recognizing his work as an established writer.

Andrew Kaufman time travels with The Grid

May 17, 2013 — All My Friends Are Superheroes author Andrew Kaufman is profiled in the week's edition of The Grid. In the piece, Andrew gets compared to Louis C.K. and discusses the challenges of writing new material for the tenth anniversary illustrated edition of All My Friends Are Superheroes:

Andrew Kaufman talks superheroes with Vice

On May 15, Andrew Kaufman, author of the Coach House classic All My Friends Are Superheroes, now available in a special illustrated tenth anniversary edition, sat down with the books columnist at Vice, Katie Heindl, to talk about superheroes, returning to his first book ten years later and Winnipeg. An excerpt of the interview follows:

Coach House takes Manhattan at BEA

From May 30 to June 1, the largest publishing event in North America – Book Expo America (or 'BEA' to those in 'the biz') – is hosted at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, and Coach House will be there. Like every year, the Expo provides booksellers and publishing industry workers a preview of exciting new things happening in the world of books.

Coach House nominated for a Libris Award!

May 13, 2013 — Coach House is honoured to be shortlisted for this year's Small Publisher of the Year Libris Award, presented by the Canadian Booksellers Association.

Tamara Faith Berger answers Open Book Toronto's 'Writers as Readers' survey

May 3, 2013 — Tamara Faith Berger, whose third novel Maidenhead recently won the Believer Book Award, and whose novels Lie With Me and The Way of the Whore were collected in substantially revised form in the book Little Cat, participated in Open Book Toronto's WAR Series (Writers as Readers), 'which gives writers an opportunity to talk about the

Heather Birrell's Mad Hope featured in Salty Ink's Short Story Month Series

May 8, 2013 — May is National Short Story Month, and to mark the occasion, Salty Ink is posting its thoughts on a single story from 31 different Canadian collections, every day in May, along with commentary from the author. Today's story: 'Dominoes,' from Heather Birrell's most recent collection Mad Hope: