Cover illustration and design by Malcolm Sutton
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Kathryn Mockler's debut story collection
coming September 19, 2023. Anecdotes is a Hamilton Review of Books Staff Writers' Picks, Spring 2023
Advanced praise for anecdotes
Anecdotes Stories Book*hug Press, September 19, 2023 
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Press Coverage
What We’re Reading: Staff Writers’ Picks, Spring 2023 --Hamilton Review of the Books
Where to get anecdotes?
Consider supporting your favourite independent bookstore. You can find an indie bookstore near you in Canada or the U.S. through Bookmanger.
Here are some of my favourite bookstores:
Another Story Bookshop (Toronto)
Flying Books (Toronto)
Glass Bookshop (Edmonton)
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)
Massey Books (Vancouver)
Munro's Books (Victoria)
Type Books (Toronto)
Or you can put in a request for the book at your local library! In Canada writers get paid when books are taken out from libraries through the Public Lending Rights Program.
Read my post in Send My Love to Anyone about why pre-orders are important.
Here are some of my favourite bookstores:
Another Story Bookshop (Toronto)
Flying Books (Toronto)
Glass Bookshop (Edmonton)
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)
Massey Books (Vancouver)
Munro's Books (Victoria)
Type Books (Toronto)
Or you can put in a request for the book at your local library! In Canada writers get paid when books are taken out from libraries through the Public Lending Rights Program.
Read my post in Send My Love to Anyone about why pre-orders are important.
About aneCDotes
With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse.
Absurdist flash fictions in “The Boy is Dead” depict characters such as a park that hates hippies, squirrels, and unhappy parents; a woman lamenting a stolen laptop the day the world ends; and birds slamming into glass buildings.
“We’re Not Here to Talk About Aliens” gathers autofictions that follow a young protagonist from childhood to early 20s, through the murky undercurrent of potential violence amidst sexual awakening; from first periods to flashers; sticker books to maxi pad art; acid trips to blackouts; creepy professors to close calls.
“This Isn’t a Conversation” shares one-liners from overheard conversations, found texts, diary entries and random thoughts: many are responses to the absurdity and pain of the current political and environmental climate.
In “The Dream House,” The Past and The Future are personified as various incarnations in relationships to one another (lovers, a parent and child, siblings, friends), all engaged in ongoing conflict.
These varied, immersive works bristle with truth in the face of unprecedented change. They are playful forms for serious times.
Absurdist flash fictions in “The Boy is Dead” depict characters such as a park that hates hippies, squirrels, and unhappy parents; a woman lamenting a stolen laptop the day the world ends; and birds slamming into glass buildings.
“We’re Not Here to Talk About Aliens” gathers autofictions that follow a young protagonist from childhood to early 20s, through the murky undercurrent of potential violence amidst sexual awakening; from first periods to flashers; sticker books to maxi pad art; acid trips to blackouts; creepy professors to close calls.
“This Isn’t a Conversation” shares one-liners from overheard conversations, found texts, diary entries and random thoughts: many are responses to the absurdity and pain of the current political and environmental climate.
In “The Dream House,” The Past and The Future are personified as various incarnations in relationships to one another (lovers, a parent and child, siblings, friends), all engaged in ongoing conflict.
These varied, immersive works bristle with truth in the face of unprecedented change. They are playful forms for serious times.
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