Events

The Montreal Review of Books launches its Summer 2023 issue Wednesday, July 5th, at Wills Bar (6729 Esplanade Ave). Join us for readings by Valérie Bah with translator Kama La Mackerel (The Rage Letters, Metonomy), Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland (Out To Defend Ourselves, Fernwood), and John Reibetanz (New Songs for Orpheus, McGill-Queen’s University Press).

The new queer ghost YA novel by Markus Harwood-Jones is launching in Toronto, Montreal, Kingston, Winnipeg (with more stops to come)!

Join us for a casual 5 à 7, bilingual reading, and brief conversation between THE RAGE LETTERS author Valérie Bah & translator Kama La Mackerel.

Join us for the hometown launch of El Ghourabaa: A queer and trans collection of oddities. Featuring Sherine Elbanhawy, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Naja Kassir, Leila Marshy, Samia Marshy, Nofel, and Olivia Tapiero.

Join us for the Toronto launch of El Ghourabaa: A queer and trans collection of oddities, featuring readings and discussion from Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch & Trish Salah.

Join us on July 6th at 1pm for our virtual launch of El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities, edited by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Samia Marshy!

Seeking uncanny, fun, experimental, creepy, sarcastic, playful, vulgar, inventive, sexual, weird, sweet, and evocative works, editors Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch set out to collect Arab and Arabophone queer writing.

In Tkaronto on the last weekend of September? Head over to the Contemporary Stage at Word on the Street for a conversation between El Ghourabaa editors and two of the new queer and trans Arab anthology's contributors.

A Room of One's Own Bookstore in Madison, WI, will be hosting a launch of El Ghourabaa featuring co-editor Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and anthology contributor Bazeed in conversation with Fawzy Taylor.

Join us for a special Violet Hour at Pulp Bookstore in Verdun, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Metonymy Press.

Join us for the hometown launch of Grace Kwan's debut poetry collection, The Sacred Heart Motel on Thursday, November 14.

Join Grace Kwan for the Montreal launch of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL, taking place at Co-op Agenda in Petite-Patrie. Featuring special guests Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Carlos A. Pittella.

Join Grace Kwan for the Toronto launch of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL, taking place at Another Story Bookshop, featuring special guest Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi.

Metonymy Press is having a drop-in book sale at our office (635 Beaumont Ave.) on Thursday, December 19. Stop by from 10am to 2pm or from 4-7pm.

Cabaret celebrating 10 years of queer, trans, and feminist publishing in Montreal.

Metonymy Press and Sheer Spite Press will have a shared table at the July edition of the monthly Left-wing Pop-up Book Sale organized by Kersplebedeb Press.

Skip your awkward holiday party and come celebrate with us instead! Metonymy Press is launching a new two-volume anthology featuring 11 of our authors you've come to know and love. On the evening of December 11, there will be readings! Drinks! Prizes! Tearful goodbyes! If you've placed a preorder, you can pick up your books… Read More »Montreal launch of SHARP PINK CLAWS