Hingston & Olsen Publishing is an independent press based in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in the summer of 2015 by author Michael Hingston and designer Natalie Olsen as a means of finding out just how far an untested idea could be taken, H&O launched its debut title, the 2015 Short Story Advent Calendar, three months later.

Since then, the SSAC has grown to include work from nearly 200 different writers, from George Saunders to Carmen Maria Machado to Arthur Conan Doyle; we’ve also expanded to collaborations like the Ghost Box, a three-volume deluxe horror anthology edited by Patton Oswalt, and the non-fiction Permanent Record Series.

In a world where print material is rapidly losing ground to all things digital, we remain stubborn, true believers in the power of the physical book. Our titles are driven by design and full of the unexpected—both the words on the page, and the look and feel of the page itself. We're suckers for unusual lengths, formats, perspectives, and ideas.

H&O exists to publish books that surprise and delight, and to foster a community of readers who are passionate about the future of literature and the many forms it might take. If that's you—and since you're the type of person who clicks around a publisher's website, it sounds like it might be—then hi. We're glad you're here.

Michael Hingston 
(editor, co-publisher) is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Try Not to Be Strange (2022). His journalism has appeared in Wired, National Geographic, and the Washington Post. 

Natalie Olsen 
(designer, co-publisher) has been internationally recognized for her work designing books for publishers across North America, accumulating a portfolio of over 1,000 titles.