Publication Studio Vancouver

New this week! The second volume in our collaboration with the Below the Radar podcast (produced by Simon Fraser University’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement) is a conversation between editor/host Am Johal and philosopher Michael Hardt, about the concept and role of love in activism and politics. $14 CAD Softcover 40 pp. 4.75×6.75 inches ISBN: 9781927385678

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 9781927385654 Order online:

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 get copies from us at our table (Friday, July 26 until… read more Below the Radar: Lizzie Borden launches this weekend!

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 published, and a couple from other places in the Publication… read more TDOV: Some books by trans writers and artists

If you’re looking for a print copy of A Pragmatic Response to Real Circumstances by Anne Focke, who will be speaking at the Western Front on Thursday, February 8th, we have a fresh run of copies here! $12 plus shipping, or you can pick up a copy at the event. Meanwhile, the PDF version can be downloaded (free). The event is co-presented by Western Front and Fillip, and can be attended in person or online…. read more A Pragmatic Response to Real Circumstances – event, Thursday February 8

We’re in Seattle this weekend (May 6 & 7) for the first Seattle Art Book Fair, with books by Oliver Coran, Jamey Braden, James Hoff, Tyler Brett, and others, as well as this newly-made gem by Hazel Jane Plante. Songs of Love, Death, and Pleasure is a book of Hazel’s song lyrics and some lyrics by Tracy St. Cyr, the main character/co-author of Any Other City, her novel just published by Arsenal Pulp Press. If… read more Songs of Love, Death, and Pleasure by Hazel Jane Plante

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 will be provided. Friend of the studio Simon(e) van Saarloos has a… read more Simon(e) van Saarloos Against Ageism launch, Vancouver, Friday March 17

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

This week we’re tabling online at the Vancouver Art Book Fair. This year, the fair has several BIPOC publishers from aroound the world who I haven’t seen at fairs in the past, and that has to be because of the work of VABF guest curator Eloisa Aquino (of B&D Press). Please visit the fair some time this week! We’re selling a pay-what-you-can edition of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report and calls to action,… read more Vancouver (virtual) Art Book Fair until October 26

We deeply miss Garry Neill Kennedy, who died earlier this year; his contributions to conceptual art, artists’ publishing, and education in Canada are huge. 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, Kennedy takes us through the rooms and domains of a mid-century… read more Finchwell Finchwell Finchwell Finchwell and Osborn by Garry Neill Kennedy