Hazel Jane Plante

1 month ago | lithub.com | Drew Broussard |Hazel Jane Plante

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small press book that they love. The only rule of this game is that there are no rules, except that the books we recommend must have been published, at some time, and in some place, by a small press.

Aug 13, 2024 | roommagazine.com | Hazel Jane Plante

Any Other Cityby Hazel Jane PlanteArsenal Pulp Press288 pages$23Any Other City, the second novel from Vancouverite Hazel Jane Plante, doesn’t look like a novel. It looks like a memoir—the memoir of transgender rock star, Tracy St. Cyr.

Jul 12, 2023 | bookriot.com | Hazel Jane Plante |Lucy Morris |Mia Tsai |Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Oh, Imogen. This character broke my heart. She’s the epitome of the enthusiastic ally to bisexual pipeline. She’s so entrenched in queer discourse that she’s tied herself in knots. She thinks having a maybe-crush on a girl must be her secretly, inside her own head, appropriating queer culture. I just wanted to give her a hug.

May 7, 2023 | thebcreview.ca | Hazel Jane Plante

Any Other Cityby Hazel Jane PlanteVancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023$22.95 / 9781551529110Reviewed by Brett Josef Grubisic*Whenever film critics gripe about pop music biopics, “cliché-ridden” is standard fare. Considering a pop star’s ready-made chapters — juvenile precocity, discovery, rise and fall, triumphs and tragedies, and so on — over-reliance on genre tropes merely highlights the story’s formulaic character.

Apr 20, 2023 | 49thshelf.com | Julie Booker |Michelle Syba |Hazel Jane Plante |Philippa Joly

Hollay Ghadery's latest book, Rebellion Box, is up for giveaway right now! Enter for your chance to win. Heroic leaps between genres. Wild and wonderful shifts between forms. As a child, Lucy Maud Montgomery set the standard of what could be accomplished by a masterful multi-genre writer. Her poems, novels, essays, and short stories were enthralling. I marvelled at how she moved between genres; how she seemed at home in whatever form she chose—how I felt at home in the whatever worlds she created.