Arquipélago Press

07/02/2025

Anthology update! The winners will be announced in several days once we have contacted the authors. A special thank you to our jury members, Sue Desousa Miller and Daphné Santos-Vieira, for their dedication and effort in reviewing the submissions and selecting the final shortlist. We truly appreciate your commitment!

About the jury:
Sue Desousa Miller has more than 15 years of experience in the publishing industry, having worked at Scholastic Canada and served as a literary agent with the Donaghy Literary Group in Toronto. During her time as an agent, she was a guest speaker at numerous local writing groups and workshops, and she continues to edit and proofread selected projects. The daughter of parents who immigrated from Madeira and Minho to Canada in the '60s, she is keenly interested in immigrant narratives.

Daphné Santos-Vieira has a B.A. - Honours in French and English literature from McGill University with a Minor in Lusophone studies from Université de Montréal. She's been involved with the CBC Literary Prizes for over a decade and worked as an editor for four years. Now living in Montreal, her family proudly hails from Serra de Santo António in the Ribatejo region of Portugal. She's been actively part of the Portuguese diaspora in Montreal for as long as she can remember, largely due to her parents' engagement in the community.

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23/12/2024

May your holidays be filled with great joy and great books. Thank you for supporting our independent press in 2024. We look forward to sharing exciting news about our Spring 2025 titles in the new year!

23/12/2024

Thank you to The Miramichi Reader for including The Hyphen by Maria Joao Maciel Jorge in your Best Books of 2024 nonfiction list!

It’s that time of the year! I asked our whole team what their favourite books of the year were and received back more than 50 titles!!! Here are some of the standouts, and what our excellent reviewers had to say about them:

17/11/2024

José Luis Peixoto will be a featured guest at "Evening in Portugal: Fifty Years of the Carnation Revolution through Portuguese Literature" this Thursday, November 21st, at the Miami Book Fair. Copies of HOMECOMING will be available for signing courtesy of the official bookseller, Books & Books.

Fifty years ago, the Carnation Revolution brought profound social and artistic transformations to Portugal. These changes were vividly reflected in literature, giving rise to a celebrated new generation of post-revolution writers. As we commemorate 50 years of creative freedom in Portuguese literatu...

26/10/2024

Translator Hugo Dos Santos reads from the poetry collection HOMECOMING by José Luis Peixoto.

"There go my nieces. They’re like an exodus
of fleeting clouds, moving silently, slowly.
I know they don’t mind being compared to
a herd, four small sheep pastured by an
angel. Sometimes I confuse their names. Like
when you run into someone in the morning and,
by mistake, say good afternoon. I call Rita Patrícia,
I call Carolina Inês, I call Carolina Patrícia,
I call Inês Rita and, sometimes, when I’m lucky,
I actually call Carolina Carolina. Good afternoon
in the morning, how embarrassing; what might
those people think? But my nieces are not
those people, there is no distraction at play..."

07/10/2024

The Miramichi Reader's managing editor Carrie Stanton reviews Maria Joao Maciel Jorge's essay collection, The Hyphen and Other Thoughts From the In-Between: "The Hyphen offers a passionate recounting by Jorge about what it is like to leave a homeland and settle in a new land. There is much about the history of the Azores, from the early beginnings to the author’s walks down the streets of Toronto’s Little Portugal. There is a wide girth of information in this slim book. Once I read it, I returned to the beginning to read it again. Such is the circular nature of the essays – they tie from one to another. They are not linear but rather descriptive of the life between “the dock and the ferry,” having one foot in the Azores and one foot in Canada. The Hyphen is very much Jorge’s life inside the hyphen, her existence within the space of “in-between."

The Hyphen by Maria João Maciel Jorge is a beautiful collection of essays filled with passion, memories, and thoughts. The author, Jorge, is an Azorean-Canadian immigrant and academic.

04/10/2024

Deadline approaching! Don't forget to submit your essay, short story, narrative nonfiction piece, travel essay, or poetry for consideration in our new anthology of Portuguese Canadian writing. Visit the website for full details!

01/10/2024

International Translation Day recognizes translation professionals. It is celebrated every year on September 30th, which is the day of the feast of St. Jerome, the patron saint of translators. Arquipélago Press recognizes Hugo Dos Santos for his wonderful expertise in translating Regresso a Casa by Jose Luis Peixoto!

10/09/2024

A lovely tribute to Maria Joao Maciel Jorge's essay collection, The Hyphen, is included in the October issue of the Literary Review of Canada: The Middle: Essays on Fragmented Identity by Aya Victoria McKhail. https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2024/10/the-middle/

20/08/2024

Exciting news! Arquipélago Press titles are now available in the US through , a Seattle-based distributor supporting small press publishers and bookstores. If you're outside Canada, please order our titles directly from Asterism's website using the link below. American and international bookstores, libraries, and retailers can also order through Asterism. Thank you to Josh and his team at Asterism Books!

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15/08/2024

Our Spring 2024 titles are now listed on BookNet Canada's Catalist!

30/07/2024

More copies of HOMECOMING are going out today--and thank you to all of our supportive readers! Remember, we're offering free shipping to Canadians during July and August so order your copy directly from our website!

23/07/2024

Happy Pub Day to HOMECOMING by José Luís Peixoto, tr. from Portuguese by Hugo Dos Santos!
Cover photo by António Tedim and cover design by Mark Goldstein of .

Thank you to DGLAB/Cultura and Camões IP of Portugal for funding the translation of this wonderful collection of poems by one of the most acclaimed authors of contemporary Portuguese literature.

Homecoming is available for purchase on our website and in select bookstores in Canada. US and international distribution, courtesy of Asterism Distribution in Seattle, will be available in August!

21/07/2024

Digital editions of The Hyphen, Mary John, and Memoria: An Anthology of Portuguese Canadian Writers in PDF format are now available on our website!

18/07/2024

We’re delighted to announce that the submission window for our second anthology of new Portuguese Canadian writing is now open! See our website for full details!

15/07/2024

The proof copy arrived, and it looks beautiful! You can pre-order your copy at our website. During July and August, free shipping will be available on Canadian orders for all our titles.

06/07/2024

HOMECOMING by JOSÉ LUÍS PEIXOTO is now available for pre-order on our online shop!

In his latest collection of poetry, José Luís Peixoto, writing from the confines of his home during the height of the pandemic, invites you on a journey through his memories. Captured in a deft translation by Hugo Dos Santos, Homecoming is a tender evocation of a familiar world — a world of friends and family, beloved pets, small villages and busy streets — suspended in time. Like Ulysses on a perpetual voyage, Peixoto explores the essence of a room’s four walls and turns his gaze inward, journeying to places near and far but always leading back to the heart of it all: home.

During July and August, we offer free shipping in Canada on all our titles!

In his latest collection of poetry, José Luís Peixoto, writing from the confines of his home during the height of the pandemic, embarks on a journey through his memories. Captured in a deft translation by Hugo Dos Santos, Homecoming is a tender evocation of a familiar world — a world of friends ...