Smashing Stigma
With Story

Smashing Stigma

with story

Cringe, Laugh, Love?

awfully hilarious is a playfully provocative movement committed to destigmatizing mental health through storytelling and humour. Through our anthologies that tell true taboo-tackling stories to fun, bright, in-your face gear with sassy slogans, let’s rewrite old narratives together!

Cringe, Laugh, Love?

awfully hilarious is a playfully provocative movement committed to destigmatizing mental health through storytelling and humour. Through our anthologies that tell true taboo-tackling stories to fun, bright, in-your face gear with sassy slogans, let’s rewrite old narratives together!

Our Mission!

is to help shift unhelpful narratives, and amplify historically marginalized voices that need to be heard.
Pillow Talk Get our latest release! Available in paperback, ebook, and now on audio book! 
Pillow Talk Get our latest release! Available in paperback, ebook, and now on audio book! 
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Foreplay

A tiny, poetic tease from awfully hilarious: Pillow Talk. A sensual micro-chapbook of poetry and provocative short fiction, meant to spark curiosity and invite intimacy in one sitting. Available in paperback, ebook,  and audiobook.

Join the Movement!

Period pieces, is available as an ebook, paperback, and now on audio book! 

Join the Movement!

Period pieces, is available as an ebook, paperback, and now on audio book! 
Get Your Copy Now!
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The Book that started it all!

Our first book, Stories we Never Tell, is available as an ebook, paperback, and now on audio book!

The book that
started it all!

Our first book, Stories we Never Tell, is available as an ebook, paperback, and now on audio book!
Get Your Copy Now!
Get Your Copy Now!

★★★★★

Creates a needed space

What a great idea for a book... Writing down taboo stories that you tell your friends after a few (or a lot) of drinks! I was lucky enough to be one of Heather's room mates long ago and her amazing energy has persisted through the last couple of decades and created something special and uniquely fun.

R. Knight

★★★★★

Horribly funny

A mixed bag of stories and poems that helped normalize my own embarrassing dating and life mishaps. Heather’s belief that stories connect us, and help us feel less alone, shines through this collection and as I laughed I felt the embrace of all of humanity and all the cringy things I’d done or experienced transmuted into strengths. Bravo.

René

★★★★★

Well written & just what we all needed!
Makes you smile and relate!

Loved the honesty and the concept is so new & fresh! We all have things to share that will make us laugh and bring us closer together. This compilation is exactly what humanity need right now! Love love love !

Emily

★★★★★

Heartfelt and Hilarious

Heartfelt, hilarious and beautifully written. I read the book in one sitting and found myself saying "Oh gawd!", laughing out loud and doing Kegel exercises...

Looking forward to the sequel!

Deniz

★★★★★

Laughter is the best medicine

This book brings a vulnerable side to the writers. They add laughter and insight into hilarious and sometimes sad situations. The authors do a beautiful job bringing you into the story and reminding you that being human is hilarious. Loved reading the book and reflecting on each story, character and experience.

Julie
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    Heather Hendrie

    Heather is a creative radical who’s spent years fumbling through life and figuring it out as she goes (not unlike the rest of us). She’s travelled the world on a shoestring and a whim, and spent far too many hours lying in bed alone (or on the toilet in the bar) swiping through to the end of the Tinder-verse.
    our story

    our beautiful
    partners in crime


    Yin Xzi Ho 何吟曦

    Mother Earth
    Born in Kuala Lumpur and based in Squamish, Yin Xzi is an author and artist with a focus on land-based practices and knowledge. She uses words, illustration, and animation to convey experiences and highlight moments of tenderness.

    Grace Davies

    The Curse of the Tiny Toilet.
    Grace hails from the San Francisco Bay Area and is a mother, writer, comic, mental wellness coach & founder of the No Longer Lonely as F#CK community.

    april joseph

    One + One = Three
    april is a poet and clarinetist from East L.A., CA who creates mourning songs to heal ancestral trauma. april teaches artistic expression to transform lives. (include link to here: bodyfulspace.com)


    Sarah
    Richards-Graba

    Vodka, Straight
    Sarah’s DNA comes from all over the world, though she’s lived in Colorado her whole life. A writer, teacher, artist, and coach, Sarah loves how storytelling connects us in subversive and nourishing ways. 

    Pierre-Olivier Gaudreault

    Tomb Raider!
    Based in Squamish, BC, and hailing from rural Quebec, Pierre-Olivier is a writer, avid mountain biker, mountain athlete and environmental change agent.

    Dietmar Heine

    Will the Real Terry Please Stand Up
    Based in Toronto, Dietmar is a coach, facilitator, consultant, and writer. He helps others transform themselves, their relationships, and their organizations.

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