Mawenzi House is dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh diverse writing from Canada and a
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Mawenzi House brings you fantastic from Canadian and other authors. We are dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world. Our focus is on works that can loosely be termed "multicultural" (for want of a better word). Our authors come from South Asian, East Asian, African, Car
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If you could travel to any place and time in history, what would you do? For Isabel, Suresh, and Nathan, three teenagers in Ms Sullivan’s high school English class, the answer is: 1613 when Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burned down.
Read KILLING SHAKESPEARE by KOOM KANKESAN today! Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/killingshakespeare
Munira Premji, author of Choosing Hope: 1 Woman, 3 Cancers, will be at the Toronto Public Library, Mount Pleasant Branch, on Wednesday July 24 from 2 - 3 pm.
Please register in person at the Mount Pleasant Branch or by calling 416-393-7737.
We hope to see you there!
We don’t like to show favouritism in the books we publish, but we think these ones deserve a moment in the spotlight.
📖 The Red One by Safia Fazlul
📖 This Book Betrays My Brother by Kagiso Lesego Molope
📖 Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
📖 Streams That Lead Somewhere by Fareh Malik
📖 Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) by Monia Mazigh
It's publication day for Daniel Maluka's debut poetry collection, Unwashed!
These are not romantic or quiet poems; they are loud and in-your-face. They speak directly to the collective anxieties of urban life and reflect the author’s experience as an immigrant in Canada and a family man in the diverse setting of Toronto. What we are given here is a tapestry of intense, image-rich poetry.
Learn more about Unwashed here: https://bit.ly/45l8AzL
It’s officially summer and we’re heading into the Canada Day long weekend! 🍁
What are you reading this long weekend? Still not sure, why not grab one of these books!
📚 West of West Indian by Linzey Corridon (Poetry)
📚Reimagining ChinaTOwn edited by Linda Zhang (Anthology)
📚Nila the Bleeding Garden by Laila Re (Novel)
📚Spiritual Pursuits and Other Stories by Lien Chao (Short Stories)
📚Killing Shakespeare by Koom Kankesan (Novel)
📚Mattress Makers by Sasenarine Persaud (Poetry)
In honour of National Indigenous People's Day, we're highlighting our Indigenous authors.
Message Sticks by Joséphine Bacon is bilingual work (English and Innu-aimun) and is an invitation to dialogue.
SH:LAM (The Doctor) by Joseph A Dandurand describes the experiences of an Aboriginal people brought to the edge of extinction.
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine is a slam poet, visual artist and Indigenous rights activist.
Buy these books from our website: https://bit.ly/IndigenousTitles
Please join us and Shaukat Ajmeri on Sunday, June 2 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Langstaff Community Centre to celebrate the launch of his new short story collection, Open Season: Stories.
Reading and Author interview with Lubaina Fidaali
Books for Sale | Book Signing | Refreshments
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3VmA1G3
Buy Open Season: https://bit.ly/43FlMP7
Vancouver friends! Monia Mazigh will be at Upstart and Crow on Saturday, May 25 at 6 PM. This is a free event, but please register for your spot in their bio link, as capacity is limited.
Books will be for sale, and Monia will be signing them after!
Thanks to Upstart & Crow for hosting this event.
If you're in the Vancouver area, consider attending this event!
Monia Mazigh will be participating in the Cultures of Belonging series at Simon Fraser University on May 25 from 2 - 4 pm with Dr Amyn Sajoo.
You can register here: https://bit.ly/4dAta2V
We stand in solidarity with Kagiso Lesego Molope and her right to speak.
Purchase Kagiso's books from our website (https://www.mawenzihouse.com/?s=Kagiso+Lesego+Molope) or wherever you buy books from.
May is Asian Heritage Month and we have a great selection of poetry titles for you to choose from!
Shop wherever you buy books from (or from our website, our Marketing Assistant includes handwritten notes with a sticker on the note!)
The last two books in the Prison of Dreams quintet will be published in Late June! Pre-order a copy of A World in Ruins (Book 4) and A New Testament (Book 5).
Swipe to see a synopsis of the quintet!
Grab a copy and pre-order these titles wherever you buy books from!
If you order from our website, our Marketing Assistant will include a handwritten note!
We are SO excited to share the cover for Killing Shakespeare, a new YA novel coming out in June this year!
Swipe to see a full synopsis of this exciting new YA novel!
It includes the importance of literacy (mentions of AI), time travel, and, of course, Shakespeare! This novel is a mash-up of “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Terminator.”
Pre-order your copy wherever you buy books from! (or pre-order it from our website! You'll even get a handwritten note from our Marketing Assistant: https://bit.ly/killingshakespeare)
We have a new giveaway on Goodreads! Enter now to win one of ten signed copies of Open Season: Stories by Shaukat Ajmeri!
Just published on April 8th in Canada and coming out in August in the US. This giveaway closes on May 31.
Check out the giveaway here: https://bit.ly/OpenSeasonGiveaway
Laying on the cold hard ground after listening to The Tortured Poet's Department and looking for the next manuscript to read?
We've got you covered with lots of great poetry options. Head over to our website to browse all of our poetry titles.
From the desk of our marketing and promotions assistant.
We think Keepers of the Faith (2020) looks great next to Shaukat Ajmeri’s newest title, Open Season: Stories (2024).
Get your copy today from our website or wherever you buy your books from.
Happy Publication Day to Open Season: Stories by Shaukat Ajmeri!
In sparkling, clear prose, understated yet unflinching, Open Season probes deep into the fissures of caste, class, religion, and gender in our world.
Grab your copy on our website: https://bit.ly/43FlMP7
April is National Poetry Month! Start the month off by reading Understan by Gavin Barrett.
Buy a copy here: https://bit.ly/Understan
Join us for an author reading and interview as we celebrate the launch of “Open Season: Stories” by Shaukat Ajmeri. This event will be an engaging night of literature, and dialogue with Shaukat discussing his stories with Lubaina Fidaali.
Reading and Author interview with Lubaina Fidaali
Books for Sale | Book Signing | Refreshments
Pre-order Open Season: https://bit.ly/43FlMP7
RSVP to the Book Launch: https://bit.ly/4aywt86
March 21 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. If you want to learn to empathize with other communities, see yourself in someone's experiences, or even start to heal from your own encounters with racism, these six books might be for you.
https://alllitup.ca/six-reads-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-racial-discrimination/
Nila the Bleeding Garden by Laile Re was reviewed in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement!
Get your copy from wherever you buy books or from our website: https://bit.ly/3QE4olB
Bringing more awareness to the fact that we publish translations! 🎉
Manam by Rima Elkouri was translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. It was the finalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Be sure to check out this book (and our other translated titles) on our website: https://bit.ly/3P7GCk8
Mattress Makers by Sasenarine Persuad was reviewed in the 2023 Winter issue of the Malahat Review!
Get your copy from wherever you buy books or from our website: https://bit.ly/3y63A2g
Introducing the Scarborough Bundle! We now have a (small) section on our website dedicated to bundles. This collection brings together three Mawenzi House titles from new authors from Scarborough, Ontario.
You have the option of buying ROUGE by ADRIAN DE LEON, FEEL WAYS edited by ADRIAN DE LEON, TEA MUTONJI & NATASHA RAMOUTAR and BITTERSWEET by NATASHA RAMOUTAR.
Head over to our website to shop this bundle: https://bit.ly/3Ip54JP
Today is International Women’s Day! To celebrate we’ve got some great books for you to check out.
📚 THINGS SHE COULD NEVER HAVE by TEHMINA KHAN
📚 OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF A CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN by SHEEMAN KHAN
📚 ELECTRIC FENCES AND OTHER STORIES by GUGU HLONGWANE
📚 THE MUSLIMAH WHO FELL TO EARTH: PERSONAL STORIES BY CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMEN edited by SAIMA S. HUSSAIN
📚 NUFF SAID by MICHELLE MUIR
📚 ECHOES FROM THE OTHER LAND by AVA HOMA
We want to extend a HUGE congratulations to Téa Mutonji for her short story collection for making it to the finals on Canada Reads!
We published an anthology of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry that Téa edited in 2021 that we think you should check out.
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Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later.
Get a copy here: https://bit.ly/3sU2kjr
Quill and Quire reviewed Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) by Monia Mazigh back in November.
Get your copy from wherever you buy books, or buy here: https://bit.ly/3NCVEOR
West of West Indian by Linzey Corridon (forthcoming in March) is included in All Lit Up's spring preview!
Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/42ydurQ
It's spring vibes only today at ALU HQ.
Check out our 2024 spring preview where we pick out some
of the books we can’t wait to read in the coming months. Peek our selections here: alllitup.ca/2024-alu-spring-preview/
Happy Leap Day!
Having an extra means that you get an extra day to shop our Black History Month sale! Select titles are 30% off our website. This is the perfect opportunity for you to add (or start) your March TBR!
Shop the sale here: https://www.mawenzihouse.com/shop/?orderby=price
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Still reeling after listening to The Tortured Poets Department all weekend long? We’ve got you covered to help you recover… Or maybe these books will just make you go back and listen to the double album all over again. #torturedpoets #ttpd #popculture #poetry #poetrycollections #diverseauthors #poets #diversereads #smallpublisher #booktok #bookstagram
Are you ready for it? Ready for the sizzling new novel from Safia Fazlul that was published today! The Red One explores the topics of marriage, sexual abuse, and gender expectations in the setting of a tight-knit South Asian community in Canada. Grab your copy from our website or your favourite bookstore. #NewRelease #PublicationDay #NewBook #SafiaFazlul #Bookstagram #IndiePress #CanadianPublisher
Not sure what to read this month? We’ve got you covered from short stories, to poetry, and young adult. ✅ Such a Lonely, Lovely Road by Kasigo Lesego Molope ✅ Nila the Bleeding Garden by Laila Re ✅ Where the Baedeker Leads by James Yeku ✅ Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ✅ Things She Could Never Have by Tehmina Khan Let us know what you’re looking forward to reading first in the comments! #bookrecommendations #bookstagram #diversereads #canlit #diversecanlit
Starting the week off right with some good reads! #DiverseReads #CanLit #IndiePublisher #Bookstagram
Some books that should be on radar… Young Adult edition! 📚My Totem Came Calling 📚Ghost Boys 📚Dancing in the Dust 📚Any Girl #DiverseReads #CanLit #YoungAdultNovels #BooksOnRadar #DiverseAuthors #CanadianLiterature #Canada #LocalAuthors
✅ Blanket ✅ A #DiverseReads book ✅ A cup of tea/coffee We’re all set for a weekend of reading! #Bookstagram #ReadingWeekend #CanLit #DiverseBooks #CanadianAuthors #BookishCanadians #MawenziHouse #CanadianPublisher
Join us for the launch of the English translation of MANAM, a novel by Rima Elkouri (trans. Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott)!
Book launch of "His Sacred Army" and "A Time of Questions"
Moderated by writer Dannabang Kuwabong, this is an extended dialogue on why Black writers write poetry.
Leslie Roach reads "This Force," "Movement Appeal," and "Inflicting" from FINISH THIS SENTENCE, a book about a personal experience in dealing with racism and the unexpected healing she finds in awakening to certain truths.
Sheniz Janmohamed reads "Rift Valley Song" from her forthcoming collection, REMINDERS ON THE PATH. In its pages, the poet doubles as wayfarer, exploring the path we inherit and seek out, and that disappears with every step taken on it. Each turn is littered with reminders both ephemeral and indelible. A companion, a fleeting memory, a broken twig—all serve as guideposts for crossing the threshold of one’s self. Grounded in the language of place, these poems become stepping-stones from the author’s past to the present, from forgetfulness to remembrance, and from unknowing to a deep knowing only found through direct experience. #PoetryMonth
Gavin Barrett reads "Name Day," which he wrote on March 21st, World Poetry Day. He is the author of UNDERSTAN, a collection that uses memory and the minutiae of daily life to unravel the mysteries of love and death. He examines belief and superstition, on occasion prays, and delights in the sight of the familiar and the strange, the young and the old. In his journey the poet is lost but holds up the map to everywhere and everyone.
P. Ahilan and Geetha Sukumaran read "A Journey" from THEN THERE WERE NO WITNESSES, a collection about the trauma of the Sri Lankan civil war. Indran Amirthanayagam praises Ahilan for his "unsparing, wide-lensed, 360-degreed" eye, and Sukumaran for her "vigorous, graceful, and haunting" translation.
Sonia Saikaley reads "Speak English" from TURKISH DELIGHT, MONTREAL WINTER, a collection that takes the reader from Lebanon’s olive groves to Montreal’s frigid winters and underground malls. According to poet Susan Musgrave, it is “a turbulent voyage of a book...a page-turner.”
Terry Watada reads "Dazzling Blue" from his latest poetry collection, which reflects on human suffering, love, and enlightened acceptance through the prism of Buddhism. THE FOUR SUFFERINGS, much like the poet's previous collection THE GAME OF 100 GHOSTS, is thematically expansive and syntactically playful.
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