Sharp Pink Claws Vol. 2

New Writing from Metonymy Press Authors Metonymy Press celebrates over a decade of diverse and groundbreaking work with Sharp Pink Claws, volumes 1 & 2, anthologies 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. Volume two contributors include Kai Cheng Thom, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Grace Kwan, jiaqing wilson-yang, Markus Harwood-Jones, and Valérie Bah [[[More Info]]] “I love the way anthologies celebrate community, bringing writers together, and push against the idea that writing is an isolated project.” —Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, in the introduction to Vol. 1 “There was plenty of basement at home. In which to fight. In which to play. In which to engage in I-show-you-mine-you-show-me-yours with cousins and stray neighbourhood kids. In which to spin around a poteau many many times until your insides felt liquid and your hands smelled like dirty pennies.” —from Valérie Bah’s “Playing in the Basement,” Vol. 2 “They leap out of bed, jostling last night’s hookup, who’s snoring gently, their head at an awkward angle, half-propped on one of Sal’s dense ergonomic pillows, salvaged from an ex who left town in a hurry.” —from H Felix Chau Bradley’s “Brood,” Vol. 1 “She was too startled at his sudden vulnerability to hold on to anger. Watching his face in the pale glow of the television screen, she noticed it was shifting, constantly changing.” —from jiaqing wilson-yang’s “Rewinding,” Vol. 2 [[[Specifications]]] Format Paperback Pages 64 Year Published 2025 Editors Ashley Fortier Oliver Fugler is a founding member of Metonymy Press and is currently a co-publisher. Oliver is, more generally, a Montreal-based, trans writer, publisher, and editor. Their work has appeared in
 Lambda Award–winning The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (Topside Press, 2012) and make/shift magazine, among other publications. Oliver released Gays in the Workplace in 2011, She Is Sitting In the Night: Re-visioning Thea’s Tarot in 2015, and is one of the editors for Sharp Pink Claws: A Metonymy Press anthology published in 2025. Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tià:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, GUTS, carte blanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2019. Their book knot body (2020), published by Metatron Press, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia University First Book Prize. The Good Arabs (2021), published by Metonymy Press, was the winner of the 2022 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and received an Honorable Mention from the 2022 Arab American Book Awards for the George Ellenbogen Poetry Award.