Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.

02/07/2025

We’ll be at Sharp Words Winter Book Fair in on February 15!

We can’t wait to see you there!

Bridgeworks, 100 Caroline St. N, Hamilton

02/06/2025

In his debut poetry collection WEST OF WEST INDIAN (Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.), Linzey Corridon "[attempts] the work of mapping the ever-transforming space of living my iteration of a Queeribbean life." Listen to Linzey's reading of his poems “The shape of love” and “The shape of contempt” here: https://alllitup.ca/poetry-in-motion-linzey-corridon-west-of-west-indian/

02/06/2025

Reminder that our books are tax-free until February 15. Get those orders in!

02/05/2025

Please join us to hear Linzey Corridon and Leslie Roach read from their poetry collections at the Art Bar Poetry Series on Monday, February 10 at 7 PM at Free Times Cafe.

01/29/2025

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone celebrating! We've got three book recommendations for you to celebrate today.

01/27/2025

We’ll be at OLA on Thursday and Friday! Our booth is in the OBPO pavilion - come and say hi and chat books with us.

Koom Kankesan, author of Killing Shakespeare will be in the OPBO Pavilion on Thursday, January 30 at 11:40 am signing copies of his book.

We look forward to seeing you there!

01/24/2025

Nazneen Sheikh will be at the Wychwood Public Library in Toronto on January 28 from 2 - 3 pm. We hope to see you there!

01/23/2025

A fantastic review of Unwashed from The Fiddlehead.

Issue 302 (the first issue of our 80th year) is officially in the mail!

Included in issue 302 is Kirby's review of Daniel Maluka's debut poetry collection Unwashed from Mawenzi House. Kirby called Maluka's debut "mighty. Profoundly good. Some of the best work I’ve read this decade"

Read the full review here:
https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/kirby-reviews-unwashed-daniel-maluka

01/17/2025

Sarmad Sehbai will be having a book launch on January 19th, 2025 at the Living Arts Centre (Screening Room) in Mississauga at 3 PM. Books will be available for sale, and light refreshments will be available.

Space is limited so please arrive early.

01/15/2025

"...it seems to me that we must, perhaps more than ever, remind ourselves of the power of words to either do constructive things or to create chaos, suffering, hatred, misunderstand. We must be reminded constantly that language is to be paid attention to."

For today's , Portuguese-Canadian novelist, poet, and professor Irene Marques ruminates on language and shares four poems from her latest collection, THE BARE BONES OF OUR ALPHABET (Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.).

https://alllitup.ca/poetry-in-motion-irene-marques-the-bare-bones-of-our-alphabet/

01/13/2025

Save these dates for Mawenzi events in January!

Our first event is a book launch for Sarmad Sehbai's novel, The Blessed Curse, in Mississauga on January 19.
Nazneen Sheikh will be participating in the conversation with Generation Women on January 23.
Nazneen Sheikh will be at the Wychwood Public Library on January 28.
Koom Kankesan will be signing copies of Killing Shakespeare at the OLA Super Conference on January 30, and we will also be attending this conference as exhibitors on January 30 and 31.

Stop by and say hi to us at any of these events. We're always happy to chat with you.

01/09/2025

Our holiday sale ends TOMORROW!

Save 30% on our print titles, excluding pre-orders, and 10% on all ebooks.

There is no tax on printed books until February 15!

Shop our sale now: https://bit.ly/2VTsyyo

12/23/2024

Wishing you a happy holidays! We will be reading books, drinking coffee/tea and eating a lot of good food. We’ll see you back here in January!

12/20/2024

We’ve got your next short story collection to read before the holidays!

JEWELS AND OTHER STORIES by DAWN PROMISLOW is her debut collection that is populated by a wide and surprising range of unforgettable characters: an artist who finds his power in the dusty earth; a mother who waits for a letter; a collector of cacti who seeks her own kind of freedom; a shopkeeper in trouble in an outpost country town.

Our print and ebooks are on sale via our website until January 10. Until February 15, our print titles have the HST taken off: https://bit.ly/2VTsyyo

12/14/2024

Cotton Blues was the last book we published this year. We paired Cotton Blues with some of our translated titles, since we published three French to English translations this year, and completed the Prison of Dreams Quintet.

Translated titles we recommend:

📖Manam by Rima Elkouri, translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
📖Mina Among the Shadows by Edem Awumey, translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.
📖Blueberries and Apricots by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott
📖Toronto, I Love You by Didier Leclair, translated by Elaine Kennedy
📖Salt in My Life by Lien Chao

All the books mentioned are on sale via our website: https://bit.ly/2VTsyyo

12/13/2024

Farida by Monia Mazigh was the second French-to-English translation we published this year.
Farida is a beautiful, evocative novel of modern Tunisia told through the lives of its women.

We recommend books on female empowerment and included Mazigh's non-fiction title, which we published in June 2023!

Books we recommend:
📖The Red One by Safia Fazlul
📖Her Mother's Ashes 3, edited by Nurjehan Aziz
📖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
📖Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) by Monia Mazigh

All the books mentioned are on sale via our website: https://bit.ly/2VTsyyo.

12/12/2024

I Left You Behind by Nazneen Sheikh is the second short story collection we published this year.

These are stories of dislocation, relocation, and longing, evoking the physical and mental isolation made so tangible during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Books about displacement/between places we recommend:
📖Her Mother's Ashes 3 edited by Nurjehan Aziz
📖Echoes from the Other Land by Ava Homa
📖Looking Back, Moving Forward edited by Julie C Robinson
📖Adrift by Loren Edizel
📖Flesh, Tongue by Yaya Yao

All the books mentioned are on sale via our website: https://bit.ly/2VTsyyo.

Check back tomorrow for more recommendations.

12/11/2024

The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet will make you think and exercise those poetry-reading muscles. We paired this book with other books focusing on language.

Books we recommend:
📖The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit by Irene Marques
📖Caribbean Blues & Love’s Genealogy by Dannabang Kuwabong
📖Nuff Said by Michelle Muir
📖Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

All the books mentioned are on sale via our website: https://bit.ly/2VTsyyo.

Check back tomorrow for more recommendations.