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Book Your Own Reading revisited

One of our 2025 titles, Book Your Own Reading, is the subject of an insightful review by Rob McLennan. You can read the review here, and you can order the book below. $12 CAD Softcover 54 pp. 5.25×6.75 inches ISBN: 9781927385685

Too Much Light is Blinding

On Saturday, December 13, at the Be True To Your School exhibition/auction closing event, we will be launching Too Much Light is Blinding, edited by Claudette Lauzon, a document and discussion of an exhibition Claudette curated in 2022. The book includes some gorgeous colour reproductions of works by Rebecca Bair, Dave Biddle,Sabine Bitter + Helmut Weber, Raymond Boisjoly, Brady Cranfield, Rehab…

OH, FU, UU, UU, UU, CK button edition

Raymond models the OH, FU, UU, UU, UU, CK button edition. Photo by Kathy. As alumni of the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA), we’re happy to be participating in a fundraising auction for the SCA’s Audain Gallery. Work by Kathy Slade can be found here, and a piece by Kay Higgins is here. If you aren’t the successful bidder for either of those (or any of the other works in the auction,…

Vancouver Art Book Fair 2025

This weekend, July 4, 5, and 6, we’ll be at #vancouverartbookfair at the Roundhouse Community Centre, with new, newish, and older books. Watch out for: Book Your Own Reading, edited by Scott Inniss with poems by Cam Scott, Fintan Calpin, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Scott Inniss, A Jamali Rad, Jeff Derksen, Fan Wu, Weldon Gardner Hunter, Andrew Mbaruk, and Ryan Fitzpatrick; Are Erections…

FTS makes an appearance on Dennis Cooper's blog...

Here at Publication Studio, we're great admirers of Dennis Cooper... so we were thrilled to see Fellow Travelers Series title Demons of Eminence by Joshua Escobar on his list of favorite 2025 fiction thus far. Check out the full list here: https://denniscooperblog.com/mine-for-yours-my-favorite-fiction-poetry-non-fiction-music-film-art-and-internet-of-2025-so-far/

And grab a copy of Joshua's book here: https://publicationstudio.biz/books/demons-of-eminence/

#literature #dennis cooper #queer lit #2025 reads

Also new this weekend: my hate is pure by clio lake

Also launching this weekend: my hate is pure by Clio Lake.It’s a poetic meditation on desire and trans identity, with a pleasing, rough, pixelated texture, and a piquant, equally textured vibe. 4.5×4.5″, 12pp, colour printed, saddle-stitched, $10 Order online:

Below the Radar: Lizzie Borden launches this weekend!

This weekend we’re at the 2024 Vancouver Art Book Fair, which is happening at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Yaletown this year. We’re especially happy to be launching this new co-publication with SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, an interview with legendary filmmaker Lizzie Borden (Born in Flames, released in 1983, has had kind of a renaissance over the past few years). You can…

TDOV: Some books by trans writers and artists

March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s easy to be unsure of how to celebrate that: trans people know that visibility isn’t always safe, and cisgender allies may wonder if there’s any appropriate way to respond. Wonder no more, because Florence Ashley, author of Gender/Fucking, has a great suggestion: buy some books by trans authors or artists or publishers! Here are some books we…

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Songs of Love, Death, and Pleasure by Hazel Jane Plante

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Simon(e) van Saarloos Against Ageism launch, Vancouver, Friday March 17

Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto by Simon(e) van Saarloos Book launch and panel discussion (In-person event) with Simon(e) van Saarloos, J. Logan Smilges, and Yahlnaaw Introduced by Kay Higgins Friday, March 17, 2023 at 6pm Hybrid event, in person at the Libby Leshgold Gallery, and online (free registraion required for webinar). This event is free and open to the public. ASL interpretation…

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Book launch in Berlin, Thursday April 28: Strip Club Book for Leah Jolie by Oliver Coran

Book launch for Strip Club Book for Leah Jolie by Oliver Coran When: Thursday April 28, 7pm Where: TV Bar, Potsdamer Str. 151, 10783 Berlin Reading by Oliver Coran and Alex Hai Publication Studio Vancouver is launching its newest title, Strip Club Book for Leah Jolie, in Berlin with an event at TV Bar on April 28 at 7pm, and at the 2022 Miss Read art book fair, April 29 – May 1. The event at TV…

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Finchwell Finchwell Finchwell and Osborn by Garry Neill Kennedy

We deeply miss Garry Neill Kennedy, who died earlier this year; his contributions to conceptual art, artists’ publishing, and education in Canada will continue to reverberate. One of the books we made with him was this reproduction of a book originally made in the 1990s from his exhibition of the same name. Through one-panel cartoons of office life, taken from magazines of the 1950s and 1960s,…

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Bootleg A History of Women Philosophers

This four-volume set edited by Mary Ellen Waithe surveys the work of women philosophers from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. Copies of individual volumes can be found from online booksellers for up to $200. Our set costs $15 dollars per volume, for a total of $60, because in this world of Jordan Peterson stans it is increasingly important to know that women continue to contribute to…

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Truth and Reconciliation final report, pay what you can

The final report of Canada’s report into the Residential Schools system, which was designed to destroy Indigenous culture and traditions and systematically abused, starved, and killed Indigenous children, remains one of the most important public documents in contemporary Canada. This is the executive summary of the testimonies and calls to action resulting from the work of the commission; a…

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In Space: online talk with Eleanor Vonne Brown and Ho Tam July 29

Presented by friends of the Studio at the Libby Leshgold Gallery: Thursday, July 29, 2021, 4pm Vancouver time – free, registration required https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-space-launch-event-with-eleanor-vonne-brown-and-ho-tam-tickets-163924926869 In Space, a project of the Libby Leshgold Gallery and ECU Press, launches on Thursday, July 29 at 4pm Pacific Daylight Time with an online talk by…

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Sébastien Aubin: ᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᐣ – wêpinikan – something not cared for – délaisser quelque chose

Friend of the studio Sébastien Aubin is doing an online talk Tuesday, March 16 at 4pm Vancouver/Pacific time through the Libby Leshgold Gallery, to kick off his online residency, ᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᐣ – wêpinikan – something not cared for – délaisser quelque chose. Register for free for the talk at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sebastien-aubin-something-not-cared-for-tickets-143396471707 Some people might…

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Friend Poems launch, in case you missed it

Here’s the video from our distanced reading and book launch of Friend Poems back on February 26, courtesy of our co-publisher Agony Klub. Friend Poems is a volume of intimate poems by Kay Higgins, Colin Osler, Tiziana La Melia, Casey Wei, and Steffanie Ling, edited and designed by Casey Wei — another Agony Klub project we are grateful to be able to collaborate on. You can purchase Friend Poems…

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