Toronto Launch of SHARP PINK CLAWS and Metonymy Fundraiser!

Hosted by Cason Sharpe and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch! Readers to be confirmed. Metonymy Press celebrates over a decade of diverse and groundbreaking work with Sharp Pink Claws, an anthology of writing showcasing evocative work by several of its authors. These multi-genre anthologies are filled with politically engaged, formally innovative, and embodied writing by some of the most important queer and trans writers of the twenty-first century. Contributors include Kai Cheng Thom, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Grace Kwan, jiaqing wilson-yang, Markus Harwood-Jones, Valérie Bah, Trish Salah, Kama La Mackerel, Hazel Jane Plante, Shanice Nicole, and H Felix Chau Bradley. Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a mixed-Arab writer, and translator, and newest co-publisher at Metonymy Press living in Tio’tia:ke. Their book, knot body, was published by Metatron Press in 2020. Their second book, The Good Arabs, published by Metonymy Press in 2022, was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards, the Khayrallah Prize honorary mention, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French, Dandelion Daughter, was published in Spring 2023 and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. With co-editor Samia Marshy, they edited El Ghourabaa, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers, published by Metonymy Press in June 2024. In October and November 2024, they were the writer-in-residence at the Arab American National Museum. You can find out more about them on their website, elitareqwrites.com or you can sign up for their newsletter, https://softsyrup.substack.com/ Cason Sharpe is part of the editorial team at Metonymy Press. He is a writer and artist based in Toronto with a practice that includes fiction, criticism, creative nonfiction, installation, and performance. His work has been published in C Magazine, Public Parking, and BRICK Literary Journal, among others, and he has presented work in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Vancouver Art Book Fair. He holds a Master’s of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and his first collection of stories, Our Lady of Perpetual Realness, was published by Metatron Press in 2017.