Join the PinkPlayMags family today and be in our next edition.
Brought to you by the publishers of The Pink Pages Directory
posted Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The year Paul turns forty, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to him. But for a gay man of a certain age, making a family still means finding your own way through a world with few ready answers. The eighteen-month journey reveals many […]
posted Tuesday, June 1, 2021
We could all use a little bit of optimism and joy these days, and no one is better primed to help us rediscover what makes us happy than Lenni and Margot. In The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though […]
posted Monday, May 31, 2021
Lambda Literary, the nation’s premier LGBTQ literary organization, has announced the finalists of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards (a.k.a. the “Lammys”). Winners will be announced at a virtual ceremony on June 1, which is free for all to watch. The event will also be captioned and include live ASL interpretation. Created over thirty years […]
posted Monday, May 31, 2021
REMEMBERINGS by Sinéad O’Connor is a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song. Sinead O’Connor hasn’t released any albums in the past few years, but she has been getting some writing done. Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame […]
posted Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Testing the Wind by Peter Ilgenfritz (Coffeetown Press, April 2021) is a memoir of coming out and coming of age in the 1970’s and 1980’s. It tells the story of Peter’s wrestling with the meaning of sexual identity in the 1970’s and the particular challenges of coming out as a gay man and young pastor in the […]
posted Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Set in 1998, “Tramps Like Us” is the story of a group of gay men in Toronto who are struggling with the process of growing older in the community. Sound familiar? The first draft was written the year before the UK series Queer as Folk was broadcast, and so the author had no choice but […]
posted Tuesday, May 18, 2021
A Canadian playwright’s rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era. Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his teenage parents in motel rooms and shacks on the side of the highway in Alberta and Northern British Columbia. He grew to be one of the most celebrated, and controversial, Canadian […]
posted Saturday, May 15, 2021
Repent Sinner BC Book Prize winner (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Forest of Reading Evergreen Award finalist Ivan Coyote is one of North America’s preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent […]
posted Saturday, May 1, 2021
From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians. When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept […]
posted Friday, April 23, 2021
Anvil Press was established in 1988 to publish “subTerrain” magazine. The desire among those involved at the time was to eventually publish a line of literary titles—books from new, virtually unknown authors who were starting to make a name for themselves on the Canadian literary scene. The publishing philosophy at Anvil remains uncompromised: “To discover, […]
