Publication Studio Guelph

05/26/2026

Join us today (May 26) at 1 pm EST to celebrate the latest book in the ongoing imprint, The GOAT PoL Books!

We're hosting an online book launch for "A Million Stars From Our Sky," with the book’s author, Ndugu Steven. Ndugu is an adventurous young writer who grew up and lives as a refugee in the Dzaleka refugee camp, in Malawi. He completed his studies in Malawi, and continued with online studies from Creighton University and the Catholic University of Germany. He has written stories for The GOAT PoL for two years.

Ndugu will be joined by PS Guelph member Shawn Van Sluys, and Matthew Stadler, one of the Reader/Advisor/Editors who worked with Ndugu on A Million Stars From Our Sky.

Join the launch here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Book Launch: A Million Stars From Our Sky. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

05/21/2026

To celebrate the latest book in the ongoing imprint, The GOAT PoL Books, PS Guelph is hosting an online book launch for A Million Stars From Our Sky, with the book’s author, Ndugu Steven. Ndugu is an adventurous young writer who grew up and lives as a refugee in the Dzaleka refugee camp, in Malawi. He did his studies in Malawi, and progressed with online studies from Creighton University and Catholic University of Germany. He has written stories for The GOAT PoL for two years.

Ndugu will be joined by PS Guelph member Shawn Van Sluys, and Matthew Stadler, one of the Reader/Advisor/Editors who worked with Ndugu on A Million Stars From Our Sky. The book tells the story of Toyi, a schoolboy growing up in the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi. His adventures with his friends bring him through childhood into the responsibilities of an eldest son in a family that needs his help. Author Ndugu Steven vividly details the story of a child facing hardships and finding joy in a unique setting, seen through the insightful eyes of a native son.

Available now as a softcover or e-book from PublicationStudio.

May 26 at 1 pm EST
Join the launch on Zoom at https://us06web.zoom.us/w/84678786291

05/06/2026

Join us on Saturday, May 9 at 1 pm for the book launch of The Sound of the Homeland Drum, a collection of texts by Peter Schuler of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Peter is an elder, and long-time friend and collaborator of the ArtsEverywhere Festival and Musagetes. We are honoured to be publishing and producing a book of his selected works written over the last decade.

Book design by Aimée Rochard

The launch of the book will include a conversation and reading with Peter, alongside special guests, including Indigenous dance collective Odawa Wiingushk.

Odawa Wiingushk highlights the Fancy Shawl, a dance which imitates the graceful beauty of a butterfly, a storytelling dance connecting to our relationship with the animals called the Prairie Chicken style and the Traditional Dance representing the strength of women who are the backbone of our communities, life-givers, life sustainers and water carriers, in a dynamic and engaging performance for all. Odawa Wiingushk often invites other dancers and styles to be braided into their performance to highlight a variety of dance styles on the Powwow Trail.

This afternoon event includes a free lunch

River Run Centre
Saturday, May 9 at 1 pm
Free / no registration required

03/12/2026

Thanks for co-hosting this book launch Eden Mills Writers' Festival

Speak Birth 1997 is Em Wright’s first collection of poetry. The volume includes poems that reflect on a pre–natal stroke the author survived and its relationship to their body and trans identity. Wright’s poems also reflect on physical fragility and medical intervention, and on connections of memory and family.

The book opens with a reflection from Melri Wright, the author’s mother, and is accompanied throughout by charcoal illustrations by Toronto-based artist Kalia Lenaghan. Speak Birth 1997 is hand-made in Guelph and designed by Steph Yates.

You can purchase your copy here: https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/speak-birth-1997/ or head to The Bookshelf if you're in Guelph!

Why do we silo the arts?

Why do we act like poetry belongs in one room, music in another, movement somewhere else?

What happens when we let them talk to each other?

At EMWF, we believe that literature doesn’t just live on the page — it dances, stutters, pulses, and sings. It lives in us, just as the inspiration for our creative expression does until it finds its form — as a poem, a sound, a canvas.

At EMWF, we believe that some of the most exciting creative work lives in the in-between — between disciplines, between artists, between page and performance.

Tell us:
🌀 Do you love interdisciplinary literary arts?
🌀 What’s a mashup you’d love to experience at EMWF?



[📷 em wright performing during their launch of 'speak birth 1997' at EMWF 2025]

03/02/2026

Check out this recent article from Mississippi Today, about Joesph Patri Brown and his recent GOAT PoL + PS Guelph book, "The Image They Had Paint."

Short stories, poetry and think pieces Joesph Patri Brown has written while incarcerated have been collected in a book called "The Image They Had Painted,” which was published in January.

02/24/2026

A huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended, supported, vended, facilitated, organized, tabled, printed, launched, listened, and lingered with us during Rock Paper Scissors weekend.

What a gathering! Our first Big Ideas Lecture in Literature. Three book launches. Four fabulous workshops. Over 50 vendors at the Book + Print Fair. A q***r print club screen-printing demos!

Many conversations, new connections, careful labours, and books + prints finding their people. We’re so grateful for this community and the ways you continue to make these shared spaces vibrant, generous, and alive.

Hope your hearts are as full as ours. 🥰💗

02/22/2026

Happy graphic-memoir launch day to Ellie Anglin! We’re so delighted to publish this beautiful book!

Join us today at 1 pm for a double book launch at Rock Paper Scissors Book & Print Fair (2nd floor, Lecture Room), Art Gallery of Guelph.

Reproduction: Death, Birth, & The Turkey Baster Method is a graphic memoir and practical guide by Ellie Anglin that traces one q***r family’s pursuit of parenthood in the shadow of profound loss. Ellie charts her first attempts to conceive as she and her wife navigate the fertility industry — a quest that’s interrupted by the loss of both of her parents within just over a year, and the psychic disorientation that follows death. Their journey ultimately leads them toward the time-honoured le***an tradition of at-home insemination, affectionately known as “the Turkey Baster Method.

Part memoir, part ritual, part how-to guide, Reproduction is a hopeful, darkly funny, and deeply personal exploration of creation in all its forms. The story is told through poignant illustrations and full-colour collages assembled from Open Access image collections.

Ellie Anglin (she/they) is a multimedia visual artist and creative writer working in Kitchener, Ontario. She works primarily in collage, illustration, and creative nonfiction, and has self-published 34 zines. Themes in her work include gender, q***rness, pop-culture, and magic. She was the 2024 Artist in Residence for the City of Kitchener, for which she created Ribbon Zine.

Reproduction: Death, Birth, & The Turkey Baster Method, published by PS Guelph, is Ellie’s first graphic memoir.

Purchase your copy today at Rock Paper Scissors Book & Print Fair or online at https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/reproduction/

02/19/2026

we're excited! are you coming?

Join us on Sunday, February 22 from 11 - 4 pm for PS Guelph’s Rock / Paper / Scissors Book & Print Fair at the Art Gallery of Guelph!

Please note that regular exhibition access will be impacted during the event. Come browse incredible printmakers, meet artists, and celebrate print culture with us ✂️

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Image detail: Justin LaGuff, Rock / Paper / Scissors poster, 2026. Courtesy of PS Guelph

Image description: colour image, three vibrant posters with original illustrations of rock, paper, and scissors laid out on a wooden table, with a pair of scissors in the bottom right corner

02/18/2026

We’re excited to publish the first novel from Ndugu Steven in collaboration with the GOAT Polity of Literature!

Steven is an adventurous young writer who grew up and lives in the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi. His book, A Million Stars From Our Sky, traces the adventures of Toyi, a schoolboy in the camp who faces hardships and finds joy in a unique setting, seen through the insightful eyes of an eldest son.

Keep an eye on this email list for information about an upcoming online book launch with Ndugu Steven!

Available now as a softcover or e-book from
https://publicationstudio.biz/books/a-million-stars-from-our-sky/

02/17/2026

Join Daniel Sarah Karasik this Friday, Feb. 20 for the Big Ideas in Literature Lecture, a talk about literature's relationship with social movements for liberation, what we talk about when we talk about "community," and what it means to participate in political life at a time when the far right is rising, and politics so often feels like a machine for grinding hope down. As the theorist and activist Mike Davis put it: "Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely."

Daniel Sarah Karasik's debut novel, a work of q***r and trans speculative fiction called Disobedience, examines the fraught internal dynamics of a community dedicated to justice and liberation. Set in a distant future, it asks questions urgent in our own times. How should a social movement address the conflict and harm that develops between its own members? What might compassionate, sustainable models of justice look like in practice?

Big Ideas in Literature Lecture Series:
Fiction as Revolutionary Laboratory with Daniel Sarah Karasik
Friday, Feb 22 at 7 pm
Art Gallery of Guelph
Free | Reception to follow


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The Big Ideas in Literature lecture series is devoted to writers and editors whose work expands how we understand literature’s role in contemporary life. The series explores literature not only as a textual practice, but as a way of engaging the social, political, ethical, and imaginative dimensions of the worlds we inhabit. Speakers are invited to reflect on their creative and intellectual trajectories, to share works-in-progress, and to experiment with the lecture format itself through readings, conversations, and other forms. Designed for a curious and engaged audience in the Guelph region—ranging from students to lifelong readers—Big Ideas in Literature creates a space for convivial and thoughtful exchange, and fresh thinking about how literary ideas circulate in public life.