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Gordon Hill Press Gordon Hill Press is an upstart publisher of poetry, literary fiction, creative non-fiction, a

Jade Wallace has reviewed Hollay Ghadery's collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, for The Miramichi Reader.Wallac...
01/26/2025

Jade Wallace has reviewed Hollay Ghadery's collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, for The Miramichi Reader.

Wallace writes, "Every story in this book feels like jumping into a lake, like the flare of heat in your throat after a shot, like missing a step on the way down the stairs at night. These are works all the more powerful for their brevity. Hollay Ghadery’s book, in short, has made me a convert to the flash fiction genre."

You can read the full review here – https://miramichireader.ca/2025/01/widow-fantasies-by-hollay-ghadery/.

Get your copy of the book here – https://www.gordonhillpress.com/collections/titles/products/widow-fantasies.

Benjamin C. Dudgale reads from The Repoetic at Poetry Pals Afternoon Poetry Reading on Sunday January 26, 2:00 PM at Coo...
01/22/2025

Benjamin C. Dudgale reads from The Repoetic at Poetry Pals Afternoon Poetry Reading on Sunday January 26, 2:00 PM at Coop de solidaritè Agenda / Agenda Books (6692 rue Saint-Denis, Montreal QC), with Mona Gendron, D.M. Bradford, and Mo Bolduc.

Free to Attend.

‼️New Review! ‼️Jade Wallace ()has reviewed Hollay Ghadery's () collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, for The Mi...
01/21/2025

‼️New Review! ‼️

Jade Wallace ()has reviewed Hollay Ghadery's () collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, for The Miramichi Reader ()!

Wallace writes, "Every story in this book feels like jumping into a lake, like the flare of heat in your throat after a shot, like missing a step on the way down the stairs at night. These are works all the more powerful for their brevity. Hollay Ghadery’s book, in short, has made me a convert to the flash fiction genre."

You can read the full review here – https://miramichireader.ca/2025/01/widow-fantasies-by-hollay-ghadery/.

Get your copy of the book here – https://www.gordonhillpress.com/collections/titles/products/widow-fantasies.

Brianna Lopez has reviewed AJ Dolman's Crazy/Mad for bi Women Quarterly.Lopez says, Crazy/Mad "is a poetry collection ab...
12/08/2024

Brianna Lopez has reviewed AJ Dolman's Crazy/Mad for bi Women Quarterly.

Lopez says, Crazy/Mad "is a poetry collection about the act of grappling with being silenced—because of mental illness, sexual orientation, and a myriad of ill-composed labels placed on us by a society desperate to categorize us."

You can read the whole review here – https://www.biwomenquarterly.com/book-review-aj-dolman-believes-this-too-shall-pass-but-not-without-a-fight-a-review-of-crazy-mad/.

You can get your copy of the book here – https://www.gordonhillpress.com/collections/titles/products/crazy-mad.

Join Adam Lindsay Honsinger as he launches his new novel, Giving Up the Ghost, on Thursday November 14, 7:00 PM, at the ...
11/05/2024

Join Adam Lindsay Honsinger as he launches his new novel, Giving Up the Ghost, on Thursday November 14, 7:00 PM, at the ANAF in Guelph.

You can get a copy of Adam's book here – https://theporcupinesquill.com/collections/new-titles/products/giving-up-the-ghost.

He'll be joined by two Gordon Hill press authors, Hollay Ghadery, reading from her new collection of short stories, Widow Fantasies, and Rhonda Waterfall, reading from her novel, Sombrio.

‼️Author Appearance‼️Hollay Ghadery () will be at Wordstock Festival this Saturday, November 2nd! Join Hollay, Alicia El...
10/31/2024

‼️Author Appearance‼️

Hollay Ghadery () will be at Wordstock Festival this Saturday, November 2nd! Join Hollay, Alicia Elliot, John Degen, and Randall Perry for a panel, Writing and Publishing Today.

Get your copy of Hollay’s new collection of flash fiction, Widow Fantasies, here: https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/widow-fantasies.

When: Saturday, November 2, 2024 @ 11 am to 12 am
Where: Place Des Arts Du Grand Sudbury, Wordstock Festival, Sudbury ON

‼️TOMORROW‼️Join Jim Johnstone for the launch of Bait & Switch, his new book of poetry criticism. Join Jim, as well as V...
10/10/2024

‼️TOMORROW‼️

Join Jim Johnstone for the launch of Bait & Switch, his new book of poetry criticism. Join Jim, as well as Victoria Mbabazi, Nisa Malli, and Candace de Taeye on Friday October 11 at 7PM at The Bookshelf in Guelph to celebrate its release with a reading and signing.

📍The Bookshelf, 41 Quebec Street, Guelph ON
October 11, 7PM

Lyida Kwa's Book Is Officially Available!If you pre-ordered Lydia Kwa's most recent collection of poetry from time to ne...
10/08/2024

Lyida Kwa's Book Is Officially Available!

If you pre-ordered Lydia Kwa's most recent collection of poetry from time to new from The Porcupine's Quill, you already know it's available, because a copy has appeared on your doorstep.

For the rest of you, from time to new is now officially available through your favourite book seller or directly from our site – https://theporcupinesquill.com/collections/new-titles/products/from-time-to-new.

And, if you're in the Vancouver area, Lydia is launching the new collection with Rita Wong and host Tania de Rozario at Massy Arts Society on Wednesday October 9 at 6:00 PM – https://theporcupinesquill.com/pages/events -6422001b-30ec-49c2-b53d-9f725a806067-event-m1a2vpa0. Go check it out!

New titles alert!The Porcupine’s Quill is thrilled to announce the official release of three new titles: —Matthew Gwathm...
10/07/2024

New titles alert!

The Porcupine’s Quill is thrilled to announce the official release of three new titles:

—Matthew Gwathmey’s Family Band, a collection of poems on family life.

—Nathanael Jones’ Aqeuous, poetry on post-colonial realities in the black diaspora.

—Jim Johnstone’s Bait & Switch, essays and interviews on Canadian poetry.

Shop these titles at the link in our bio. Happy reading!

rob mclennan has reviewed AJ Dolman's recent collection of poetry, Crazy / Mad, on his site.mclennan writes, "Dolman ref...
09/26/2024

rob mclennan has reviewed AJ Dolman's recent collection of poetry, Crazy / Mad, on his site.

mclennan writes, "Dolman refuses closure, whether easy or otherwise, ending poems abruptly[...], often sans punctuation, [suggesting] both a sudden stop and a kind of ongoingness, how one poem, one crisis or concern, actually bleeds into the next."

Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine’s Quill will be at Word on the Street () in Toronto this weekend!We’ll be selling bo...
09/25/2024

Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine’s Quill will be at Word on the Street () in Toronto this weekend!

We’ll be selling books in Queen’s Park, including new releases by Hollay Ghadery, Matthew Gwathmey, Nathanael Jones, Jim Johnstone, and Lydia Kwa. Discover your new favourite author and find the next book for your TBR!

🗓September 28-29
📍Queen’s Park, Toronto

09/06/2024

🥳Happy Publication Day to WIDOW FANTASIES, the debut short fiction collection by Hollay Ghadery!

Fantasies are places we briefly visit; we can’t live there. The stories in Widow Fantasies deftly explore the subjugation of women through the often subversive act of fantasizing. From a variety of perspectives, through a symphony of voices, Widow Fantasies immerses the reader in the domestic rural gothic, offering up unforgettable stories from the shadowed lives of girls and women.

“In these tight, sharp-witted, and expertly crafted stories, Hollay Ghadery distills the scope of an entire relationship or, in some cases, an entire lifetime into a single scene. Vignette doesn’t quite capture the breadth of these extraordinary flash worlds inflected with wry humour, incisive observation, and heartbreak. While a comedic title, line, or situation is often the hook—whether it’s a woman repelled by the smell of her oblivious husband’s bathroom ritual or a drunk divorcee talking to patio furniture—Ghadery’s characters are multi-faceted. Where there is despair there is also love; where there is anger, there is also insight; and where there is grief, there is also friendship, which gives these stories their depth and heart. Readers of George Saunders or Joy Williams will enjoy Widow Fantasies, a spectacular and unforgettable collection.”
— Kathryn Mockler, author of Anecdotes

Widow Fantasies is published by Gordon Hill Press and is available wherever books are sold or borrowed.

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Shane Neilson, Editor

Shane Neilson is a writer from New Brunswick. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph at Guelph-Humber, an MA in English from the University of Guelph, and is currently a PhD candidate in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster where he researches the representations of pain in CanLit as a Vanier Scholar.

He has extensive editorial experience in Canadian Literature, serving as the editor of Frog Hollow Press, a Victoria-based chapbook press for almost twenty years and counting; a prose editor at Anstruther Press, a Toronto-based chapbook press; an associate editor at Hamilton Arts & Letters, a mighty online magazine based out of Hamilton; and he is the Poetry Advisor at the Canadian Medical Association Journal. In addition, Shane has readied several prose criticism books for various Canadian presses. Shane has edited many of the poets and poetry critics at the forefront of Canadian literature and has a wealth of experience that he brings to bear with both poetry and nonfiction manuscripts. Shane does not freelance and only works closely with writers publishing with Frog Hollow, Anstruther, Hamilton Arts & Letters, and now Gordon Hill Press.

Jeremy Luke Hill, Publisher