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Coming Fall 2023: Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads by Irvin Muchnick

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Publicity Contact: Claire Pokorchak, Publicity Manager, ECW Press claire@ecwpress.com ECW Press has announced a fall 2023 publication date for investigative journalist and author Irvin Muchnick’s book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Youth Football Conditioning. The public health harm of football has been widely explored in recent years mostly in relation to traumatic head injury — including in Muchnick’s own 2015 ECW Press book Concussion Inc.: The End of Football as We Know It. His new book tackles this important subject at another level, with shocking new research on how several American amateur, and often...

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Andrew Wilmot’s the Withered Is the Winner of ECW Press’s Best New Speculative Novel Contest

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ECW Press is proud to announce the results of our Best New Speculative Novel Contest, as judged by editors Jen R. Albert and Terese Mason Pierre. With over 170 entries to the contest, it was a difficult decision; there was so much great work to choose from. In the end, we’re so pleased to reveal that the winner of the contest was Toronto-based author Andrew Wilmot with their novel Withered. In this speculative horror novel, non-binary student Ellis moves with their mother to the disquieting town of Black Stone after reaching a low point with their mental health only to...

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ECW’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide

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It’s that time of year! Whoever is on your list this season, we have the perfect gift. This year we are offering 50% off the ebook/audiobook version of every book included in the gift guide! Keep reading to get the discount codes for each grouping of books.  For the person who grows their own tomatoes, uses pressed flowers as bookmarks, and is a regular poster in their neighborhood’s activist Facebook group.  Use the discount code HOLIDAYTOMATO at checkout for 50% off the audiobook or ebook versions of the books in this stack. The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed Field Study: Meditations on...

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A Spotify playlist to celebrate Emm Gryner’s new book, The Healing Power of Singing!

Posted by Anita Ragunathan on

  Read more about Emm's new book — out on September 28! Find your best voice with this soundtrack for living a fearless, joyful life from Emm Gryner & her friends and musical collaborators.

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Announcing the ECW Press Best New Speculative Novel Contest

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ECW Press is hosting a manuscript contest offering a $3000 prize and a publishing contract to the author of the best new Canadian speculative fiction novel. 

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