{"id":32301,"date":"2025-04-10T03:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/?page_id=32301"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:04:04","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"32301\" class=\"elementor elementor-32301\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-892cb50 e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"892cb50\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12385e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"12385e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"> ABOUT US <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba55aef e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ba55aef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b0dae3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b0dae3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Metonymy Press was launched in August 2014, at a reading event following that year\u2019s Queer Between the Covers book fair, part of the Pervers\/Cit\u00e9 (the underside of Pride) program. Featuring a number of readers who would later be published by Metonymy, this event and its broader context remain at the root of what Metonymy does as a small press. Slow, community-based, and largely DIY, Metonymy Press has published one to four books a year starting in 2015.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fea852a e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fea852a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22155b9 e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"22155b9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44168b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44168b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>With a plan to publish queer, feminist literary fiction and nonfiction, we have assembled a catalogue that includes these forms and formats as well as poetry, a guidebook, and a children\u2019s picture book. Metonymy\u2019s critically recognized, award-winning catalogue of daring and unconventional genres is, as one author put it, replete with \u201cauthors and books that reframe power and affirm life.\u201d<\/p><p>Metonymy\u2019s choices of authors and genres arise from our commitment to aesthetic and editorial excellence, and we seek work that transgresses boundaries, undermines the status quo, and sustains those on the margins. We put significant thought and resources into acquisitions, design, editorial, and promotion.\u00a0<br \/>Metonymy was founded by old friends Ashley Fortier and Oliver Fugler, who have remained the owner-operators for the first 10 years. The press has no permanent staff, but many important tasks at the press have been done on contract with designers, editors, and artists, as well as an editorial and acquisitions committee from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd726c6 e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cd726c6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-209e195 e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"209e195\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c778c21 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c778c21\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-1024x682.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-35374\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-930x620.jpeg 930w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eli-ash-oliver.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02fe6c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"02fe6c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-35376\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250402_142354-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b551dc e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3b551dc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0158aba elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"0158aba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;none&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 24 24&#039; fill=&#039;none&#039; stroke=&#039;black&#039; stroke-width=&#039;1&#039; stroke-linecap=&#039;square&#039; stroke-miterlimit=&#039;10&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M0,6c6,0,6,13,12,13S18,6,24,6&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-454995c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"454995c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Meet the Team || Meet the team || MEET THE TEAM<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e68bfd e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9e68bfd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ab5d3f elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"8ab5d3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; 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Oliver is, more generally, a Montreal-based, trans writer, publisher, and editor. Their work has appeared in\u2028 Lambda Award\u2013winning <em>The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard<\/em>\u00a0(Topside Press, 2012) and\u00a0<em>make\/shift<\/em>\u00a0magazine, among other publications. Oliver released\u00a0<em>Gays in the Workplace<\/em> in 2011, She Is Sitting In the Night: Re-visioning Thea&#8217;s Tarot in 2015, and is one of the editors for Sharp Pink Claws: A Metonymy Press anthology published in 2025.\u00a0<\/p><p>They&#8217;re interested in grief and illness narratives, sex but keep it visceral over romantic, non-linearity, poets trying out prose, experimental prose with emotional weight, writing about work and labour, science writing that&#8217;s accurate and also stylistically interesting, interiority and long sentences (!), and they&#8217;re in awe of good criticism.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac94b5c e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ac94b5c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1333b0 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"f1333b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38a9b56 e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"38a9b56\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df53fc2 e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"df53fc2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c732c7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c732c7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-679x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-35082\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-scaled-800x1207.jpg 800w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-1018x1536.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-1358x2048.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/014021130020-scaled.jpg 1697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2377add e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2377add\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df07baf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"df07baf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a mixed-Arab writer, and translator, and\u00a0 newest co-publisher at Metonymy Press living in Tio\u2019tia:ke. Their book, <a href=\"https:\/\/metatron.press\/shop\/knot-body\/\"><i>knot body<\/i><\/a>, was published by Metatron Press in 2020. Their second book, <a href=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/products\/the-good-arabs-el-bechelany-lynch\/\"><i>The Good Arabs<\/i><\/a>, published by Metonymy Press in 2022, was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards, the Khayrallah Prize honorary mention, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montr\u00e9al. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay\u2019s <i>La fille d\u2019elle-m\u00eame <\/i>from the French, <i>Dandelion Daughter, <\/i>was published in Spring 2023 and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. With co-editor Samia Marshy, they edited <i>El Ghourabaa<\/i>, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers, published by Metonymy Press in June 2024. In October and November 2024, they were the writer-in-residence at the Arab American National Museum. You can find out more about them on their website, <a href=\"http:\/\/elitareqwrites.com\">elitareqwrites.com<\/a> or you can sign up for their newsletter, <a href=\"https:\/\/softsyrup.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/softsyrup.substack.com\/<\/a><\/p><p>They are interested in literary fiction, non-fiction, and will be specializing in poetry, which they&#8217;re also interested in (duh!). They want to read about all sorts of subjects: &#8220;if you can write it in an interesting way&#8221;. More specifically, they are interested in writing that is about: illness\/disability, political histories and presents, queer drama, good sex writing, fun stories, hard stories that aren&#8217;t didactic, and humour as coping mechanism. They like fun gossipy novels, lyric poetry, poetry books with a strong through line, and experimental work.<\/p><p>Some writers whose work they admire include Canisia Lubrin, Trish Salah, Rabih Alamedinne, Natalie Diaz, Andrea Lawlor, Etel Adnan, Joanna Hedva, Mohammed el-Kurd, Dionne Brand, Kiese Laymon, Jeanne Thornton, and Hanif Abdurraqib.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c3fc97 e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1c3fc97\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b72d74 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"6b72d74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55b437e e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"55b437e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48046ad e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"48046ad\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-577d43d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"577d43d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-35520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cason-Sharpe-Author-photo.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-531b18c e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"531b18c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32f0cda elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32f0cda\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Cason Sharpe is part of the editorial team at Metonymy Press. He is a writer and artist based in Toronto with a practice that includes fiction, criticism, creative nonfiction, installation, and performance.<\/p><p>His work has been published in C Magazine, Public Parking, and BRICK Literary Journal, among others, and he has presented work in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Vancouver Art Book Fair. He holds a Master\u2019s of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and his first collection of stories, Our Lady of Perpetual Realness, was published by Metatron Press in 2017.<\/p><p><br \/>Cason is interested in fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction, specifically from writers with distinct, confident, and unexpected voices. He gravitates toward precise and grounded language over the purely conceptual or atmospheric, but he can be charmed by the right flowery prose. Writers he admires and returns to regularly include Jamaica Kincaid, Brontez Purnell, Joanna Hedva, Tamara Faith Berger, and Gary Indiana. Send him, your complicated characters, your sexy scenarios, or your caustic takes on everyday life.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fa27f2 e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6fa27f2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9acaf37 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"9acaf37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cec70a0 e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cec70a0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f627a90 e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f627a90\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e45b24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9e45b24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-679x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-35518\" alt=\"Felix Chau Bradley headshot, wearing a green checkered shirt, with a green background\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-1018x1536.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-1358x2048.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo-800x1207.jpg 800w, https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Chau-B.-author-photo.jpg 1493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8552cd4 e-con-full e-ecs-flex e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8552cd4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c24dcf8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c24dcf8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"Lexical__paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">H Felix Chau Bradley is part of the editorial team at Metonymy Press. They are a writer and editor living in Tiohti\u00e0:ke (Montreal), and the author of <i><em class=\"Lexical__textItalic\">Personal Attention Roleplay<\/em><\/i> (Metonymy Press, 2021).\u00a0Felix is the fiction editor at <i><em class=\"Lexical__textItalic\">This Magazine,\u00a0<\/em><\/i>and a books columnist at <i><em class=\"Lexical__textItalic\">Xtra.\u00a0<\/em><\/i>They write a monthly newsletter about books and perfume at <a class=\"Lexical__link\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/filletchaubradley.substack.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filletchaubradley.substack.com<\/a>\u00a0and are working on a novel.<\/p><p class=\"Lexical__paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">They are interested in literary fiction for adults, both novels and short story collections, that are expansive, challenging, and subversive in their approach to portraying queer and trans lives. They&#8217;re just as receptive to literary realism as they are to the surreal and the weird. Humour is important to them, as are compelling portrayals of sex and relationships; workplaces, organizing spaces, and social\/party spaces; complex family dynamics; and migration and diaspora. Of course, these are just some ideas and guidelines and should not be taken as finite\u2014 they am always open to surprise!<\/p><p>Some writers they love: Renee Gladman, Dodie Bellamy, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Myriam Gurba, Elif Batuman, Jackie Ess.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9409adb e-ecs-flex e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9409adb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ecs_container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9616d97 elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" 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Pervers\/Cit\u00e9 (the underside of Pride) program. Featuring a number of readers who would later be published by Metonymy, this event and its broader context remain at the root of what Metonymy does as a small press. Slow, community-based, and largely DIY, Metonymy Press has published one to four books a year starting in 2015. With a plan to publish queer, feminist literary fiction and nonfiction, we have assembled a catalogue that includes these forms and formats as well as poetry, a guidebook, and a children\u2019s picture book. Metonymy\u2019s critically recognized, award-winning catalogue of daring and unconventional genres is, as one author put it, replete with \u201cauthors and books that reframe power and affirm life.\u201d Metonymy\u2019s choices of authors and genres arise from our commitment to aesthetic and editorial excellence, and we seek work that transgresses boundaries, undermines the status quo, and sustains those on the margins. We put significant thought and resources into acquisitions, design, editorial, and promotion.\u00a0Metonymy was founded by old friends Ashley Fortier and Oliver Fugler, who have remained the owner-operators for the first 10 years. The press has no permanent staff, but many important tasks at the press have been done on contract with designers, editors, and artists, as well as an editorial and acquisitions committee from 2021 to 2024. Meet the Team || Meet the team || MEET THE TEAM Oliver Fugler is a founding member of Metonymy Press and is currently a co-publisher. Oliver is, more generally, a Montreal-based, trans writer, publisher, and editor. Their work has appeared in\u2028 Lambda Award\u2013winning The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard\u00a0(Topside Press, 2012) and\u00a0make\/shift\u00a0magazine, among other publications. Oliver released\u00a0Gays in the Workplace in 2011, She Is Sitting In the Night: Re-visioning Thea&#8217;s Tarot in 2015, and is one of the editors for Sharp Pink Claws: A Metonymy Press anthology published in 2025.\u00a0 They&#8217;re interested in grief and illness narratives, sex but keep it visceral over romantic, non-linearity, poets trying out prose, experimental prose with emotional weight, writing about work and labour, science writing that&#8217;s accurate and also stylistically interesting, interiority and long sentences (!), and they&#8217;re in awe of good criticism. Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a mixed-Arab writer, and translator, and\u00a0 newest co-publisher at Metonymy Press living in Tio\u2019tia:ke. Their book, knot body, was published by Metatron Press in 2020. Their second book, The Good Arabs, published by Metonymy Press in 2022, was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards, the Khayrallah Prize honorary mention, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montr\u00e9al. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay\u2019s La fille d\u2019elle-m\u00eame from the French, Dandelion Daughter, was published in Spring 2023 and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. With co-editor Samia Marshy, they edited El Ghourabaa, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers, published by Metonymy Press in June 2024. In October and November 2024, they were the writer-in-residence at the Arab American National Museum. You can find out more about them on their website, elitareqwrites.com or you can sign up for their newsletter, https:\/\/softsyrup.substack.com\/ They are interested in literary fiction, non-fiction, and will be specializing in poetry, which they&#8217;re also interested in (duh!). They want to read about all sorts of subjects: &#8220;if you can write it in an interesting way&#8221;. More specifically, they are interested in writing that is about: illness\/disability, political histories and presents, queer drama, good sex writing, fun stories, hard stories that aren&#8217;t didactic, and humour as coping mechanism. They like fun gossipy novels, lyric poetry, poetry books with a strong through line, and experimental work. Some writers whose work they admire include Canisia Lubrin, Trish Salah, Rabih Alamedinne, Natalie Diaz, Andrea Lawlor, Etel Adnan, Joanna Hedva, Mohammed el-Kurd, Dionne Brand, Kiese Laymon, Jeanne Thornton, and Hanif Abdurraqib. Cason Sharpe is part of the editorial team at Metonymy Press. He is a writer and artist based in Toronto with a practice that includes fiction, criticism, creative nonfiction, installation, and performance. His work has been published in C Magazine, Public Parking, and BRICK Literary Journal, among others, and he has presented work in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Vancouver Art Book Fair. He holds a Master\u2019s of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and his first collection of stories, Our Lady of Perpetual Realness, was published by Metatron Press in 2017. Cason is interested in fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction, specifically from writers with distinct, confident, and unexpected voices. He gravitates toward precise and grounded language over the purely conceptual or atmospheric, but he can be charmed by the right flowery prose. Writers he admires and returns to regularly include Jamaica Kincaid, Brontez Purnell, Joanna Hedva, Tamara Faith Berger, and Gary Indiana. Send him, your complicated characters, your sexy scenarios, or your caustic takes on everyday life. H Felix Chau Bradley is part of the editorial team at Metonymy Press. They are a writer and editor living in Tiohti\u00e0:ke (Montreal), and the author of Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press, 2021).\u00a0Felix is the fiction editor at This Magazine,\u00a0and a books columnist at Xtra.\u00a0They write a monthly newsletter about books and perfume at filletchaubradley.substack.com\u00a0and are working on a novel. They are interested in literary fiction for adults, both novels and short story collections, that are expansive, challenging, and subversive in their approach to portraying queer and trans lives. They&#8217;re just as receptive to literary realism as they are to the surreal and the weird. Humour is important to them, as are compelling portrayals of sex and relationships; workplaces, organizing spaces, and social\/party spaces; complex family dynamics; and migration and diaspora. Of course, these are just some ideas and guidelines and should not be taken as finite\u2014 they am always open to surprise! Some writers they love: Renee Gladman, Dodie Bellamy, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,<a href=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/about-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lire la suite &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About us<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About us - 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