Beth Graham at Audreys Books, June 15!

Edmonton! Beth Graham, the co-author of the wildly successful The Drowning Girls and Comrades will be at Audreys Books reading from her latest work, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble!

Check out a preview of the book here. 

Where: Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Ave NW (Jasper Ave NW / 109 St NW)
When: Monday, June 15, 7pm

Rick Chafe's The Secret Mask wins the Chris Johnson Award

Rick Chafe's The Secret Mask has won the first Chris Johnson Award for Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright!

The award is presented by the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers.

Click here for a full list of winners.

Mahmoud is back in Toronto, May 13!

After award-winning runs in Toronto and New York City and sold-out runs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Mahmoud is back in Toronto for a final run at The Theatre Centre from May 13 - 24, 2015!

Get your tickets here.

(Mahmoud can also be on your bookshelf.)

Erin Shields in Montreal, April 20

Meet Erin Shields, the Governor General's Literary Award-winning author of If We Were Birds, in Montreal on April 20 when she reads from her latest work, Soliciting Temptation. Check out a preview of the book here. 

Where: Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste Catherine W (Ste Catherine/Saint Marc)
When: Monday, April 20, 7pm

Print + ebook bundles!

We've partnered with BitLit, a free ebook bundling app for iOS and Android that allows you to bundle p+e.

Browse here for books that are available electronically on BitLit, and you can get them for $4.99 each as long as you already have the print edition!

How does it work?

World Theatre Day 2015

Happy World Theatre Day! Today is a celebration of the power of theatre and its ability to cross borders and to promote and protect cultural diversity and identity in communities around the world. 

Check out these messages from acclaimed Canadian playwrights for World Theatre Day:

Mieko Ouchi's Canadian World Theatre Day message.

Colleen Murphy discusses the act of reading a play versus seeing it performed. 

Spring 2015

It's raining books this spring at Playwrights Canada Press! 

Here are just some of the upcoming books to whet your reading appetite: Daniel MacIvor's I, Animal, a collection of three riveting monologues; Hannah Moscovitch's Little One and Other Plays, three must-read one-act plays; Anita Majumdar's Fish Eyes, an illustrated collection of three coming-of-age plays; and Judith Thompson's The Thrill, a meditation on euthanasia. If non-fiction is more your thing, we have two exciting books coming out in the spring, including Yvette Nolan's Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture, an examination of how theatre has been used to reconnect individuals and communities; and Daniel MacIvor: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Vol. 5, the first collection of critical essays dedicated to contextualizing and analyzing the work of Daniel MacIvor, edited by Richie Wilcox.   

Click here for the full list of spring 2015 titles!