What's new at 8th House...

Unwanted Hopeless Romantic Morons by Geoffrey Alexander Parsons coming soon! Keep an eye out for the book launch this Summer! Read more about it here.

Kolkata Dreams reviewed in Serai Magazine by K. Gandhar Chakravarty
88 pages | 5.5 × 8.5 | ISBN 978-0-9809108-7-2 (Full Colour, Paperback)

KOLKATA DREAMS is a work of travel poetry that will transport you across the sea to northeastern India. The poems explore the idealization of Mother India against the realities of its westernization from the perspective of a Canadian-born Indo-North American discovering his heritage for the first time. When reading and reciting this poetry — you may be forced to voice these poems aloud — you will find that laughter often chokes itself on tears while the book yo-yos between medit…

K. Gandhar Chakravarty will be performing Sunday, August 2nd. in Brighton, Memorial Park in the afternoon 1 - 1:30pm and at China King in the evening 7:45 – 8pm at the 3rd Annual CCLA Art & Lit Fest. Read the festival press release here.

Photos of Gandhar performing and reciting at the International Festival are now available. Visit his page here, and watch the banner!

James Cummins has won the Canadian Authors' Association's BookTelevision Emerging Writer Award for 2009.

Read about the awards here.

K. Gandhar Chakravarty's interview on OMNI TV is now available. Watch it here!

K. Gandhar Chakravarty interviewed on OMNI television. VIDEO COMING SOON!!!

Just signed: "Crossing to Tadoussac" by Frederick E. Bryson and "Hopeless Romantic Morons" by Geoffrey Alexander Parsons

K. Gandhar Chakravarty to present his "Kolkata Dreams" at the International Festival of Poetry of Resistance to be held in Toronto between April 24th-30th, 2009.

James Cummins shortlisted for the Canadian Author Association's 2009 BookTelevision Emerging Writer Award.