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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 1h
We’re coming to UofT Mississauga for a pop-up play fair! Browse the best drama books at unbeatable prices on Friday, October 24 from 2-6pm on campus at Deerfield Hall 1st Floor.
Everything will be 30% off OR 50% off if you buy 3 or more books! Don’t miss out on this exclusive sale. See you there!
On a blue background, the words “Playwrights Canada Press Play Fair” appear in bold blue and white diagonal text at the top. On the right is a white speech bubble with the words in blue text “October 24, 2025 Time: 2-6pm.” Below is a typewriter with books surrounding it and a piece of paper coming out of it with black text saying “30% off all plays, 50% off if you buy 3 plays or more!” At the bottom is the Playwrights Canada Press logo in the lower left corner and the words in white text “Deerfield Hall 1st Floor.”
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 1h
Join us for the book launch of Homecoming.
📅 Friday, November 7, 2025 – 7:00 PM
📍 VS. Creative Lab (1884 Main Street, Vancouver, BC)
Hosted by Playwrights Theatre Centre, Mabuhay House Society & Filipino-Canadian Book Festival.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 1d
A gripping allegory of survival and resistance, today we celebrate the publication day of CoyWolf by Colin Wolf 🐺 www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/C/CoyW...
The book cover for CoyWolf features an illustration of three wolves crouched together in a protective stance blurred against a mountain landscape and sunrise sky. In the forested part at the bottom, the text and author name appear in dark green and blue text.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 6d
Come to the Black and Caribbean Book Affair at the Blackhurst Cultural Centre on October 18 at 4pm for the "Taking the Stage" event featuring Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, author of The First Stone, and Peter N. Bailey, author of Tyson’s Song. See you there!
On a white background, a large assortment of events are displayed between October 16-18 for the Black and Caribbean Book Affair with dates and times, event listings and author photos.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 7d
We checked in with playwright Donna-Michelle St. Bernard to chat about her ambitious 54ology project, working with collaborators, and the differences between forgiveness and reconciliation explored in her profound new publication, The First Stone. www.playwrightscanada.com/Blog/2025/Au...
On the left is a photo of Donna-Michelle St. Bernard behind a bright red background. On the right is the book cover for The First Stone. The cover features an earthy painting of the heads of two black children. One is facing their back to us and the other is resting their chin on the other’s shoulder. The title and authors are in the bottom left corner in black and brown text.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 8d
An epic queer tragedy of biblical proportions, today we celebrate the publication day of The Hooves Belonged to the Deer by Makram Ayache 🦌 www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/T/The-...
#HoovesBelongedtotheDeer #LGBTQ #Arab #Christianity #Islam #Religion #Books #Theatre #CanLit
The book cover for The Hooves Belonged to the Deer features an illustration of a dark grassy area filled with flowers, shrubs and weeds in accents of red, white, purple and blue. In the center is a naked hairy man with his back to us holding a baby deer in his arms. The title and author appear on top of the male figure in bold red and white text.
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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 10d
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Drama: The Green Line | خطّ التماس by Makram Ayache! 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 11d
Available now for pre-order: www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/C/CoyW...
CoyWolf
Isidor, a half-Coyote, half-Wolf CoyWolf, has always struggled to find his place as a half-breed. After the untimely death of his mother, he leaves his community to roam across prairies, forests, and ...
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 11d
“There’s a venn diagram [in which] wolf displacement across Canada matches Indigenous displacement.”
Playwright Colin Wolf talks to Intermission Magazine about the complexities of resistance explored in his new hopepunk thriller, CoyWolf: www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/coy...
'CoyWolf' ponders the meaning of resistance
“There’s a venn diagram [in which] wolf displacement across Canada matches Indigenous displacement,” playwright Colin Wolf.
www.intermissionmagazine.ca
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 20d
Pre-order the book here: www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/P/Prin...
Prince Faggot
In this metatheatrical tragicomedy, an ensemble of queer and trans performers cast themselves in a thought experiment, imagining the future heir to the British throne as having a life resembling their...
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 20d
The women of Jordan Tannahill’s Prince F*gg*t talk about being royalty in this must-read feature from Vogue: www.vogue.com/article/the-...
The Women of ‘Prince Faggot’ Take Center Stage
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 21d
Hey Edmonton! Join us for a free book launch event tonight at the iconic indie bookstore Audreys Books to celebrate the release of Mermaid Legs by Beth Graham 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️
#Books #Theatre #YEG #Arts
An exterior street view photo of Audreys Books with a maroon awning in the front with their logo in white. Above the photo on a dark blue background are the words “Mermaid Legs Book Launch Audreys Books 10702 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB” in teal, green and white text. At the bottom of the image is a picture of Beth Graham in a circle frame with the words “Featuring Beth Graham” in teal and blue text. Below that image are the words “Wednesday September 24 7pm” in green text. To the right of those words is an image of the book cover for Mermaid Legs. The cover features an illustrated background of blue, teal, purple and light green that resembles the ripples in a body of water. In the center are three dark blue outlines of three women while one of the figures is distorted with an irregular torso and what looks like a tail. The title and author are featured beside the figures in dark blue text.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 22d
A heartwarming exploration of neurodiversity and sisterhood, today we celebrate the publication day of Mermaid Legs by Beth Graham 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️
www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/M/Merm...
The book cover for Mermaid Legs features an illustrated background of blue, teal, purple and light green that resembles the ripples in a body of water. In the center are three dark blue outlines of three women while one of the figures is distorted with an irregular torso and what looks like a tail. The title and author are featured beside the figures in dark blue text.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 26d
Read this spicy interview from Them with Jordan Tannahill talking about his hit play Prince F*gg*t: www.them.us/story/prince...
Pre-order your copy of the book: www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/P/Prin...
Jordan Tannahill's ‘Prince F*gg*t’ Delves into Prince George, Gay Fetish Sex and Class Politics
“I think the theater is a site of reckoning and a place to work through complicated, difficult, uncomfortable ideas.”
www.them.us
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Sep 15
Award-winning playwright Beth Graham is coming to Edmonton’s iconic indie bookstore, Audreys Books, on Wednesday, September 24 at 7pm to launch her brand new book, Mermaid Legs. Meet the author and purchase your copy hot off the press!
#Edmonton #Launch #MermaidLegs #Bookstagram #Books #Theatre
An exterior street view photo of Audreys Books with a maroon awning in the front with their logo in white. Above the photo on a dark blue background are the words “Mermaid Legs Book Launch Audreys Books 10702 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB” in teal, green and white text. At the bottom of the image is a picture of Beth Graham in a circle frame with the words “Featuring Beth Graham” in teal and blue text. Below that image are the words “Wednesday September 24 7pm” in green text. To the right of those words is an image of the book cover for Mermaid Legs. The cover features an illustrated background of blue, teal, purple and light green that resembles the ripples in a body of water. In the center are three dark blue outlines of three women while one of the figures is distorted with an irregular torso and what looks like a tail. The title and author are featured beside the figures in dark blue text.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Sep 12
Buy the book here: www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/T/The-...
The Green Line | خطّ التماس
A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover t...
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Sep 12
In a CBC Q interview, playwright Makram Ayache explains how his play The Green Line helped him find unexpected healing:
www.cbc.ca/arts/q/playw...
Playwright Makram Ayache is telling the queer stories he never had | CBC Arts
In an interview with Q guest host Talia Schlanger, Ayache explains how his play The Green Line helped him find unexpected healing.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 25
Join us for a glamourous evening with some of Canada’s most prestigious playwrights to celebrate our latest publications at the Playwrights Canada Press Fall 2025 Book Launch! ✨📚✨ www.playwrightscanada.com/Blog/2025/Pl...
The background is a dark green draped theatre curtain. At the top are the words “Playwrights Canada Press Book Launch” in gold Art Deco style text with an elegantly lined banner overtop. Below it is the following text in white and gold text: “Monday September 8, 2025 7pm, Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge St 3rd Floor, Featuring Anthony Perpuse Bilal Baig Christol Bryan Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Erin Shields Marina Gomes Michaela Jeffery Nathan Redburn Sadie Epstein-Fine Sanita Fejzić Sean Minogue Seika Boye Tijiki Morris Hosted by Janine Marley Co-presented with Canada’s Theatre Museum.” On the left are 14 hexagon shapes placed together with the photos of all the participating authors.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 22
In The Art of War, a stunning new play from Yvette Nolan, an artist and soldier tries to find meaning and beauty while painting the battlefield during WWII. Check out the interview on Open Book here: open-book.ca/News/An-Arti...
An Artists Paints the Chaos of the Battlefield in THE ART OF WAR by Yvette Nolan
What happens when the battlefield becomes a canvas? In The Art of War (Playwrights Canada Press), acclaimed playwright Yvette Nolan reimagines the Second ...
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 15
Check out this excellent feature of Erin Shields in The Globe and Mail talking about the world premiere of Ransacking Troy at The Stratford Festival of Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...
For playwright Erin Shields, the future is female – but what about the past?
Shields is preparing for a string of world premieres with a collection of plays that ask: Where are the women?
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 7
Get ready for our Summer Sales Week and enjoy 25% off everything on our website from August 11-17!
www.playwrightscanada.com/Blog/2025/Su...
On the photo of a bright beach looking out at the water, three illustrated people reclining in chairs wearing swimsuits and normal clothes are happily reading books with stacks of book piles beside them. In the center are the words “Summer Sales Week” in bold pink and orange text with neon green outline and two book covers on each side with an extended teal shadow trailing behind them. The words “25% off” in neon green text appear in a dark green block underneath and the words “August 11-17” appear above in dark green text beside the Playwrights Canada Press logo in the sky in the place of the sun with sun rays around it.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 5
A powerful portrait of an artist’s quest for meaning, today we celebrate the publication day of The Art of War by Yvette Nolan. www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/T/The-...
The book cover for The Art of War features an expressionist painting of a war cannon entrenched in a swampy patch of a meadow surrounded by World War Two army soldiers with an orange sky in the background. The title and author are featured at the top and bottom in red and yellow faded text.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 5
A heroic adventure retold with a feminist twist, today we celebrate the publication day of Ransacking Troy by Erin Shields. www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/R/Rans...
The book cover for Ransacking Troy features a light orange background with an orange Grecian woman figure lifting a large orange pitcher above her head that pours streams of blue water downward. A small orange ship sails in the blue waves. The title and author appear at the top and bottom in orange and blue text.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 1
Electrifying playwright Erin Shields flips the script on Homer and Virgil in Ransacking Troy, a fierce, feminist retelling of their epic Greek legends. Read her interview with Open Book here: open-book.ca/News/Electri...
Electrifying Playwright Erin Shields Flips the Script on Homer and Virgil in RANSACKING TROY
In Ransacking Troy, award-winning playwright Erin Shields flips the script on the Trojan War with a fierce, feminist retelling that gives long-silenced ...
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · Aug 1
Read a tense, two-hander scene from celebrated playwright Vern Thiessen’s latest play ICEMEN on All Lit Up: alllitup.ca/excerpted-ic...
The book cover for ICEMEN has a teal background that features a large pair of metal calipers with two face shapes as handles pinching a square ice cube. Inside the ice cube is the silhouette of a trapped man and a pool of blood appears underneath the cube. The title and author is featured at the top in dark grey and white text.