House of Anansi Press

02/07/2025

✨ Big news for Kim's Convenience fans in Toronto: the groundbreaking play is hitting the stage once more, this time with Ins Choi playing the iconic Mr. Kim!

02/07/2025

❤️‍🔥 “A nostalgia-tinged triumph…lovingly illustrated and written with concision and meticulous research.” —Kevin Chong, author of The Double Life of Benson Yu

✨ Introducing CHINATOWN VANCOUVER by Donna Seto, a gorgeous illustrated history of Vancouver’s Chinatown that celebrates the richness, diversity, and vibrancy of the Chinese community. With more than seventy vibrant illustrations, writeups on the buildings, interviews with community members, and select archival photographs, CHINATOWN VANCOUVER celebrates the neighbourhood and its iconic businesses as an irreplaceable living heritage site and cultural asset for all Canadians.

🔗 Available May 1st. Learn more and preorder your copy here: https://ow.ly/1vIi50UV4eZ

02/06/2025

🔥 The reprint has landed! CHRYSTIA by Catherine Tsalikis is back on shelves. Get your copy wherever you find very good books.

02/06/2025

⚡“Fans of WWII fiction will devour” THE RIVETER by Jack Wang!

❤️‍🔥 By turns harrowing and exhilarating, this story of a Chinese Canadian paratrooper explores what one man must sacrifice to belong to the only country he has ever called home.

🔗 Available February 11th. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/USmg50UUtp1

02/03/2025

Indie Publisher Feature: We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Bechard🍁

Charged initially with a single task-"to never harm humans and to protect them"-the machine, an experimental AI, overrides its programming and determines that the best way to accomplish its purpose is to isolate all of the Earth's remaining seven billion humans in controlled environments. And to present them with vivid, tactile, imagined worlds-some realistic, others entirely fantastical-in which all desires are fulfilled.

With the help of the machine, a group of compelling characters unpacks traumatic memories of the past-one rife with violence after a military coup and second civil war in America. As these characters collide and their memories coalesce, this daring speculative novel tackles the most pressing issues of our time-from artificial intelligence and the genetic modification of humans to gender roles, discrimination, free speech, and class divisions. Gorgeously written, bold, and unforgettable, this is speculative fiction at its finest.

This title is published by House of Anansi Press in Toronto 🍁

House of Anansi Press

02/01/2025

Our submissions portal is now open! 🎉

House of Anansi press will be accepting direct submissions from authors until February 28th.

Find the portal link and more information on what we're looking for here: https://houseofanansi.com/pages/anansi-submissions

01/29/2025

⚡ Meet the 11th Parliamentary Poet Laureate — Chimwemwe Undi!

✨We're so grateful for the opportunity to have worked with Chimwewe on her incredible poetry collection, SCIENTIFIC MARVEL, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Congratulations, Chimwemwe!

01/28/2025

⚡Happy publication day to WE ARE DREAMS IN THE ETERNAL MACHINE by Deni Béchard!

🔥“[A] deeply thoughtful blend of dystopian bildungsroman and sci-fi epic" — Publishers Weekly

🔗 Order from your favorite bookseller here: https://ow.ly/tiVG50UOFuJ

01/27/2025

⭐ “Ndlovu sustains a vivid gothic style while providing unflinching commentary on the abuses of British colonialism. This is a revelation.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED Review

❤️‍🔥 Jane Eyre meets Get Out in this stupendous African Gothic by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu. Arriving April 8th.

🔗 Preorder through the links on our website: https://ow.ly/OlSA50UNYhZ

01/27/2025

Enough small talk. Let's get right to it: Why can't we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation? Today's Featured attempt's to answer these, and more! 'What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time' by Ian Williams 💕🇨🇦📚

"In contemporary society, much of our communication exists in a new dimension, the online space, and it's changing how we regard each other and how we converse. In the digital realm, we can be anonymous, we can make false and hurtful comments yet evade consequences in a hurried scroll of clicks and swipes. But a good conversation takes time and patience, courage, even. We need to realize that one-half of our conversations is, in fact, listening. And aren't the best conversationalists-like the best musicians-good listeners?

With What I Mean to Say, award-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams seeks to ignite a conversation about conversation, to confront the deterioration of civic and civil discourse, and to reconsider the act of conversing as the sincere, open exchange of thoughts and feelings. Alternately serious and playful, Williams nimbly leaps between topics of discussion and, along the way, is discursive, digressive, and endlessly generous-like any great conversationalist."

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House of Anansi Press

01/23/2025

⚡ Signing reveal! ⚡

📚 Check out the authors and illustrators joining us at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference next week! Visit our booth in the OBPO Pavilion and attend our signings to get free copies of these new books!

😎See you at !

01/22/2025

❤️‍🔥 Looking ahead to the exciting new poetry collections coming in 2025!

✨ MYTH by Terese Mason Pierre, available April 1st.
✨ WELLWATER by Karen Solie, available April 1st.
✨ THE SEATED WOMAN by Clémence Dumas-Côté and translated by E. S. Taillon, available March 25th.
✨ SHADOW PRICE by Farah Ghafoor, available April 1st.

🔗 Learn more about our forthcoming books here: https://ow.ly/q0kC50UJQqY

01/21/2025

⭐ “A compelling and emotional read ... This novel is about more than war; it is about love and loyalty, acceptance, and clash of cultures.” —Kirkus STARRED REVIEW

🔗 THE RIVETER by Jack Wang hits shelves in Canada on February 11th. Preorder your copy through the links on our website: https://ow.ly/6WNC50UJMYs

01/21/2025

📚Why I wrote this book feat. SAFEKEEPING author Chelene Knight!

01/21/2025

House of Anansi Press, one of the leading independent publishing houses in the country, has teamed with Open Book to celebrate the launch of Safekeeping: A ...

01/20/2025

⭐ “A magnificent, reality-bending speculative novel about infinite struggles to make meaning in utter solitude.”— Foreword STARRED Review

🧠 Thinking a lot about the future of AI? WE ARE DREAMS IN THE ETERNAL MACHINE by Deni Béchard explores artificial intelligence, immortality, and what it means to be human. Available January 28th!

🔗 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/sA8450UJMPf

01/16/2025

✨ Coming October 7, 2025✨

🎭 JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY by Paul Myers, with a foreword by Dan Aykroyd!

📖 From the bestselling author of THE KIDS IN THE HALL: ONE DUMB GUY comes a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars. Preorder from your favorite bookseller using the links on our website: https://ow.ly/YPLR50UHEJs?

🙏 Thanks to People for sharing this exclusive announcement! https://ow.ly/59ur50UHEJr

Paul Myers's new biography John Candy: A Life in Comedy memorializes the comedian's talent, which still persists more than 30 years after his death.