Darkness is snaking its way through the characters in Pony Castle. Bad things are happening to good people. Winner of the inaugural Metatron Prize for Rising Authors (2015), Sofia Banzhaf’s debut novella is enthralling, like staring into the dark and seeing a prism.

Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadian writer, actress, and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador.

NOVELLA

48 pages

Perfect-bound

First edition, second printing

Cover art | Flora Hammond

ISBN | 978-0-9939464-4-8

Fall 2015

Advance Praise

“[Banzhaf] writes like heaven, and it’s a drug I badly want. Wolf down Pony Castle, then eat every last sweet, singing crumb.”

- Lynn Crosbie, poet and novelist

“Sofia Banzhaf creates a captivating world where nothing is free and anything can happen.”

- Chelsea Hodson, author of Pity the Animal

“Pony Castle reads like a line of crushed pill up the nose: a quick breath in and then the rush. Banzhaf’s writing is a straight chute to the most depraved of human behaviors, but within this brutal world, she finds grace and humanity.”

- Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star

Press

The Cardiff Review | Interview with Sofia Banzhaf

rob mcclennan | 12 or 20 Questions with Sofia Banzhaf

Open Book | The Proust Questionnaire

Entropy | "There is a kind of twinning in Pony Castle that digs under your nails, that speaks directly to the real versus unreal—the waking versus dreaming—hallucination of life."

Broken Pencil | “Never quite poetry, and yet always dancing along those lines.”

Montreal Review of Books | “Banzhaf grants us access to the internal narrative of mundane actions. Then her language turns them into poetry.”

Sabotage Reviews | “Sofia Banzhaf’s Pony Castle is a work of beautiful entropy that centres on a dark metamorphosis.”