Scotty Olsen: My Grandmother, My Kookum
Scotty Olsen’s essay My Grandmother, My Kookum is published in the International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine Fourth Quarterly…
Meredith Hambrock: She's a Lamb!
She’s a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers…
Shane Goth: Hannah and the Wrong Note
A young pianist realizes that mistakes can sometimes lead to joyful discoveries in this melodic picture book.
Suzanne Kamata: River of Dolls and Other Stories
These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales and lore, explore the lives of individuals caught between…
Léa Taranto: A Drop in the Ocean
An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental…
Tonya Lailey: Farm: Lot 23
Tonya Lailey’s Farm: Lot 23 explores the complex relationship we have with land, particularly as it relates to agriculture.
Catherine Young: Black Diamonds
A lyric work of environmental history, Black Diamonds gives voice to the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America…
Wren Handman: A Midnight So Deadly
A Midnight So Deadly is a cozy thriller about the unexplored realms within each of us.
Jill Goldberg: After We Drowned
After We Drowned is a tragic coming-of-age story with a stealthy, yet kick-ass, feminist subplot set in the swampy heart…
Richard Van Camp: Beast
Returning to a favourite Northwest Territories setting, Richard Van Camp brings his exuberant style to a captivating teen novel that…
Robert Colman: Ghost Work
Ghost Work is a suite of poems that explores a son’s gradual loss of his father from dementia.
Jane Baird Warren: How to Be a Goldfish
How to Be a Goldfish is a compelling, heartfelt, humorous read about acceptance and understanding, and will provide a gentle…
Sonia Di Placido: Flesh
Flesh - a composite of poems perceived, evoked, discovered, moving between and among sensory boundaries as they eschew forward, backward…
Suzanne Kamata: Cinnamon Beach
Cinnamon Beach is a multicultural tragicomedy, told from three female perspectives.
Tammy Armstrong: Pearly Everlasting
In a narrative sown with rural folklore and superstition, Pearly Everlasting is an enchanting woodland Gothic about the triumph of…
Rob Taylor: Weather
Rob Taylor’s poetry collection, Weather, is a book of small poems, mostly haiku. Taylor wrote 156 poems, one per week…
Sara Power: Art of Camouflage
A powerful debut about the lives of girls and women caught in the orbit of the military.
RJ McDaniel: All Things Seen and Unseen
RJ McDaniel’s novel is an incisive reflection on identity and wealth, and a refreshing racial queer story of survival.
Erin McGregor: What Fills Your House Like Smoke
E. McGregor combines the lore of family history with personal memory, vividly parsing patterns of inheritance, particularly through the maternal…
Yilin Wang: The Lantern and the Night Moths
The Lantern and the Night Moths is Yilin Wang’s love letter to modern and classical Chinese poetry, the art of…
Li Charmaine Anne: Crash Landing
This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place…
Leanne Dunic: Wet
In photographs and language shot through with empathy and desire, Wet unravels complexities of social stratification, sexual privation, and environmental…
Kara Stanley: The Pain Project
The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane, thoughtful inquiry into the challenge of living with chronic pain and how Stanley…
Robyn Braun: The Head
Robyn Braun's novella is a surreal and penetrating tale of academia, work life and surviving trauma.
Margaret Nowaczyk: Marrow Memory
This is a story of constant effort, of growth, of tragedy and of triumph, and most of all, of the…
Brent van Staalduinen: Unthinkable
Brent van Staalduinen’s Unthinkable is a well-paced action/thriller and a tense tour of the apocalypse-in-progress.
Kevin Spenst: A Bouquet Brought Back from Space
Through multiple locales, languages, and spiritualities, A Bouquet Brought Back from Space both subverts and sublimates traditions of religious poetry,…
Napatsi Folger: Joy of Apex
As Joy navigates her parents' separation and its affect on her family, she learns some valuable lessons about how to…
Selina Boan: Undoing Hours
Selina Boan’s debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn.
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler: Ghost Lake
The stories of Ghost Lake feature a cast of interrelated characters and their brushes with the supernatural, the Spirit World,…
Wanda John-Kehewin: Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead
With inspiring defiance, John-Kehewin plays with form, space, and language, demonstrating which magics cannot be suppressed.
Carleigh Baker: Bad Endings
Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death…
Loghan Paylor: The Cure for Drowning
Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian…
Spenser Smith: A Brief Relief from Hunger
A poetry collection about the yearnings of a young man—cocaine, human connection, fast food—and the ravenous world in which he…
Alexander Formos: Eurydice in Love
Eurydice in Love is the modern retelling of an ancient star-crossed love story between Mary Magdalene and her beloved savior…
Sarah Suk: The Space between Here & Now
From acclaimed author Sarah Suk comes an aching, powerful exploration of memory, grief, and the painful silences we must overcome…
Julianne Harvey: Jamesy Harper's Big Break
This heartfelt contemporary comedic YA novel explores themes of identity, family, competition, jealousy, and how challenging it can be to…
Clara Kumagai: Catfish Rolling
A debut young adult coming-of-age book with magic realism elements, Catfish Rolling is perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli films…
Bradley Peters: Sonnets from a Cell
The poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism…
Michelle Barker: Immersion and Emotion
Immersion and Emotion will take you deep into the craft workshop of the Darling Axe's two senior editors.
E. S. Taillon: Scenes from the Underground
E.S. Taillon translated Scenes from the Underground by Gabriel Cholette from French to English.
Wanda John-Kehewin: Hopeless in Hope
Heartbreaking and humorous, Hopeless in Hope is a compelling story of family and forgiveness.
Danny Ramadan: Salma Writes a Book
Picture book charmer Salma stars in a new early chapter book series!
Gina Leola Woolsey: Fifteen Thousand Pieces
A Medical Examiner's journey through disaster. On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the…
Buffy Cram: Once Upon an Effing Time
A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty.
Brandi Bird: The All + Flesh
Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.
Nafiza Azad: Writing in Color
Rethink the way you approach writing in this revolutionary and informative new anthology from fourteen diverse authors that demystifies craft…
Josiah Neufeld: The Temple at the End of the Universe
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious…
Adam Meisner: For Both Resting and Breeding
It is 2150 in M-City, a society without gender where everyone uses the pronoun ish. When two historians discover an…
Genevieve Scott: The Damages
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an…
Buffy Cram: Once Upon An Effing Time
A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty.
Curtis LeBlanc: Sunsetter
A fast-paced literary thriller that peels back the layers of small-town police corruption, drugs, and teen disillusionment to expose unlikely…
Jill Yonit Goldberg: The Fire Still Burns
“My name is Sam George. In spite of everything that happened to me, by the grace of the Creator, I…
Conor Kerr: Old Gods
Conor Kerr’s sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. In Old Gods, Kerr defies colonialism and situates…
Ellen Keith: The Dutch Orphan
From the author of The Dutch Wife comes a riveting novel set during World War II about a woman who…
Allison Finley: Below the Surface
Theo is happy spending his summer searching the river for treasure. Even if he mostly just finds empty cans and…
Dominique Bernier-Cormier: Entre Rive and Shore
According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising himself…
Jessica Johns: Bad Cree
A haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collide. Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver…
Jacqueline Firkins: Marlowe Banks, Redesigned
In this romantic women’s fiction about second chances, a young woman escapes to LA to start fresh after a failed…
Cathalynn Labonte-Smith: Rescue Me
Rescue Me takes you behind the scenes of some of North America’s riskiest search and rescue operations.
Sally Ito: Heart's Hydrography
In her fourth book of poetry, Sally Ito traverses the complex channels and tributaries of a heart mapped by the…
Tara McGuire: Holden After and Before
Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose. Tara McGuire excavates and documents the life path of her son Holden,…
Meredith Hambrock: Other People's Secrets
Baby’s down—and could be out for good—when she faces off with forces bent on turning her lakeside paradise into a…
Meredith Hambrock: Other People's Secrets
Baby’s down—and could be out for good—when she faces off with forces bent on turning her lakeside paradise into a…
Shelly Kawaja: The Raw Light of Morning
The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about women and children finding humour and love in the…
Nikki Vogel: Silencing Rebecca
In this genre-bending debut YA novel combining elements of horror, magic realism, and realistic fiction, Rebecca Waldmann’s sheltered life as…
Danny Ramadan: The Foghorn Echoes
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through…
Lucas J. W. Johnson: The Clockwork Empire
It is the height of the industrial revolution, and the Roman Empire has stood for thousands of years. Airborne fortresses…
Brent van Staalduinen: Cut Road
Containing a rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories, Cut Road is a masterful exploration of the loss and scars…
Patti Flather: Such a Lovely Afternoon
Such a Lovely Afternoon is a poignant, unflinching collection, including a novella, six linked stories and two others. Characters confront…
Francine Cunningham: God Isn’t Here Today
Driven by desperation into moments of transformation, Cunningham’s characters are presented with moments of choice—some for the better and some…
Colleen Anderson: I Dreamed A World
A collection of 60 poems exploring fairy tales, myths, witches and legends from a female perspective.
Jasmine Sealy: The Island of Forgetting
Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, this is a novel about the echo of deep—and sometimes tragic—love and the ways a…
Brooke Carter: Sulfur Heart
Will’s father was just found dead in a pile of sulfur. He was a retired cop who'd been working as…
Shannon Webb-Campbell: Lunar Tides
These poems explore the primordial connections between love, grief and water, structured within the lunar calendar. The poetics follow rhythms…
Winona Kent: Ticket to Ride
In 1974, top UK band Figgis Green was riding high in the charts with their blend of traditional Celtic ballads…
Paul Coccia: On the Line
Thirteen-year-old basketball star Jordan Ryker feels like his life is falling apart. All Jordie wanted was for his parents to…
Rhett Davis: Hovering
The city was in the same place. But was it the same city? Alice stands outside her family's 1950s red…
Gabrielle Prendergast: The Overwood
Blue and his Faerie friends race through the snowy winter streets of the city as they follow clues and face…
Suzanne Kamata: Waiting
Suzanne Kamata attended Lexington High School with Sharon Faye “Shari” Smith, who was murdered in 1985 by Larry Gene Bell.…
Christopher Evans: Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth
Christopher Evans's stories are people with strays — those who fall for the allure of nostalgia, grapple with male fragility,…
Catherine Young: Geosmin
Catherine Young’s poems journey through earth, water, tree, and stone, the heartbreak and beauty of seasons across a rural year,…
Danielle Daniel: Forever Birchwood
With gorgeous yet understated language, Danielle Daniel beautifully captures an urgent and aching time in a young person’s life. To…
E. David Brown: Nothing is Us
Told in a novelistic style complete with climax and denouement and the imagery and tension of fiction, it deals with…
Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr: Flood Season
After over a decade working as a musician under the name Kae Sun, Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr. makes a full-blooded return…
Margaret Nowaczyk: Chasing Zebras
From leaving Communist Poland to enduring the demands of medical school, through living with a long undiagnosed mental illness to…
Aaron Bushkowsky: Water Proof
A dark, rousing comedy set in and around the Pacific Northwest, Water Proof is a story about infidelity, film-making, and…
Conor Kerr: Avenue of Champions
Set in Edmonton, this story considers Indigenous youth in relation to the urban constructs and colonial spaces in which they…
Natasha Silva: North Star Heart
A collection of poetry divided into three sections, North Star Heart, is a powerful journey of self-discovery, a reclamation of…
Ellie Sawatzky: None of This Belongs to Me
From rural Ontario to Kitsilano to Burning Man, Sawatzky inquires into childhood learning, girlhood learning, what is inherited, what is…
Shane Goth: The Midnight Club
This charming midnight romp celebrates the special bond between siblings with a mischievous but safe spirit. Playful details like The…
Meg Todd: Exit Strategies
The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the…
Katie Zdybel: Equipoise
The women of Equipoise struggle to find their positionality in life in relation to the women around them. They are…
Barbara Nickel: Dear Peter, Dear Ulla
Dear Peter, Dear Ulla is an imaginative and beautifully crafted historical middle-grade novel about two cousins who have never met…
Marie Powell: Last of the Gifted
Omnibus edition contains the complete duology, combining Spirit Sight (Book 1) and Water Sight (Book 2). Hyw and Catrin pit…
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt: Peacekeeper's Daughter
Peacekeeper’s Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983, told from…
Katherena Vermette: The Strangers
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores how connected we are, even when…
Nicola I. Campbell: Spíləx̣m
Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman’s journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma…
Elizabeth Mason: Demon Huntress
As Maeve and Ezra's bond deepens, so too does the danger awaiting them. Will they emerge from Hell unscathed?
Joseph Hutchison: Under Sleep's New Moon
The poems in this new/old collection are by turns personal and public, surreal and naturalistic, musical and plain-spoken. But all…
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt: Peacekeeper's Daughter
Peacekeeper’s Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983, told from…
Terry Miles: Rabbits
A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the…
Jordan Abel: NISHGA
From Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of…
Meghan Bell: Erase and Rewind
The stories in Erase and Rewind probe the complexities of living as a woman in a skewed society.
Patti Edgar: Anna, Analyst
On the last day of elementary school, eleven-year-old Anna finds a leather-bound book about handwriting analysis. Anna could use help…
Susan Olding: Big Reader
Big Reader is a brilliant, achingly beautiful collection about the slipperiness of memory and identity, the enduring legacy of loss,…
Tara Gereaux: Saltus
The events that transpire that evening force each townsperson to look long and hard at themselves, at their own identities,…
Rachel Rose: The Octopus Has Three Hearts
The Octopus Has Three Hearts offers dispatches from the margins of human society. These are stories about damaged people who…
Diane Tucker: Nostalgia for Moving Parts
Deeply grounded in the rainy mists and green reeds of the Canadian west coast, solitude becomes a spiritual practice transmuting…
Bren Simmers: If, When
The poems in If, When link the author’s contemporary experiences while living in Squamish, British Columbia, with those of her…
Carrie Jenkins: Victoria Sees It
A queer psychological thriller from a beguiling, fresh new voice. Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's…
Rob Taylor: Strangers
A book about the songlines of memory and language and the ways in which they connect us to other human…
Molly Cross-Blanchard: Exhibitionist
Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and…
Sara de Waal: 48 Grasshopper Estates
With a diverse cast of characters brought to life by illustrator Erika Medina, Sara de Waal’s whimsical debut emphasizes the…
Terence Young: Smithereens
More than any of his previous books, though, Smithereens features poems that are playful, in which language is often associative,…
Elena Johnson: Notes de terrain pour la toundra alpine
The French translation of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra. In 2008, Elena Johnson was invited to be the writer-in-residence…
Brent van Staalduinen: Nothing But Life
During a sweltering summer, Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he loves who committed…
Kallie George: The Secret Fawn
Gorgeous cut-paper art illuminates this sweet, heartfelt picture book about how special being little can be. For fans of Finding…
Owen Laukkanen: The Wild
A girl is sent against her will to a remote wilderness boot camp where things aren't what they seem in…
andrea bennett: Like a Boy but Not a Boy
A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a…
Roslyn Muir: The Chimera's Apprentice
Will Kyra learn how to call the Chimera to do her bidding? Will the deal she makes with the giant…
Annabel Lyon: Consent
A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided together when tragedy changes…
Jeffrey Ricker: The Final Decree
Bill’s impending marriage to Nelson Wolff could unite two of the most powerful industrial families on Terra Beta. The only…
Brent van Staalduinen: Boy
Boy’s final year of high school is unraveling. Fast. He had it all worked out, from crushing his final exams…
Donna Kane: Orrery
Orrery is a collection that orbits around the theme of Pioneer 10, an American space probe launched in 1972 to…
Frances Greenslade: Red Fox Road
A thirteen-year-old girl on a family vacation becomes stranded alone in the wilderness when the family's GPS leads them astray.…
Estella Kuchta: Finding the Daydreamer
When daydream meets intuition, a young ranch wife's life turns upside down. Fleeing a dangerous husband, she steals away with…
Gwen Goodkin: A Place Remote
From farm to factory, alcoholism to war wounds, friendship to betrayal, the stories in A Place Remote take us intimately…
Madeline Sonik: Fontainebleau
In this collection of linked stories—part surreal picaresque, part dark comedy, and part murder mystery—magic meets the mundane as misfits…
Winona Kent: Lost Time
In Kent’s accomplished sequel to 2019’s Notes on a Missing G-String, musician and amateur investigator Jason Davey has joined a…
Tyler James Russell: To Drown a Man
At once delicate and visceral, the poems in To Drown a Man chronicle the long gauntlet from a life of…
Jan Redford: End of the Rope
As a young teenager Jan Redford runs away from a cottage and her abusive father and throws herself against a…
Mark Leiren-Young: Bar Mitzvah Boy
Through the genuine connection established between Joey and Michael, this sentimental dramedy will charm anyone who has ever questioned why…
M.F. McDowell: Open City, Closed Set
Brimming with humour and an oddball cast of characters, this unique novel shines a spotlight on Hollywood’s golden age and…
Andrea Miller: Awakening my Heart
From Andrea Miller — an editor and staff writer at Lion’s Roar, the leading Buddhist magazine in the English-speaking world…
Michelle Good: Five Little Indians
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara,…
Tara Gilboy: Rewritten
After learning the truth about her own fairy tale, twelve-year-old Gracie wants nothing more than to move past the terrible…
Robert Colman: Democratically Applied Machine
In poems that inhabit both industrial and domestic landscapes, Colman traces his inheritance to determine how his life echoes that…
Galadriel Watson: Running Wild
In this fascinating introduction to biomechanics, seasoned non-fiction writer Galadriel Watsondraws on biology, physics, and other sciences to show readers…
Zazie Todd: Wag
Wag bridges the gap between human and canine by demystifying the inner lives of dogs to share evidence-based advice for…
Michelle Barker: My Long List of Impossible Things
The arrival of the Soviet Army in Germany at the end of World War II sends sixteen-year-old Katja and her…
Laura Trethewey: The Imperilled Ocean
An exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future.…
Jason Patrick Rothery: Privilege
A cutting satire concerning the death spiral of the white, male identity.
Aaron Chan: This City is a Minefield
Thoughtful and honest, the stories and essays recounted are unafraid of analyzing and criticizing the status quo, whether it be…
Shauntay Grant: My Hair is Beautiful
A celebration of natural hair, from afros to cornrows and everything in between, My Hair is Beautiful is a joyful board book…
Miranda Pearson: Rail
A rail is a track, a support, and a barrier. In this collection, spanning the personal and the political, Kentish…
Nicola Winstanley: Mel and Mo's Marvelous Balancing Act
How do you create a life in balance? Mel and Mo may look alike, but these twins’ personalities are far…
Francine Cunningham: ON/me
In her debut poetry collection, Francine Cunningham explores, with keen attention and poise, what it means to be forced to…
Michael Christie: Greenwood
Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies,…
Leanne Dunic: The Gift
The Gift contains a short story by Leanne Dunic and lyrics she wrote for a companion album of the same…
Alessandra Naccarato: Re-Origin of Species
From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness…
Kelly S. Thompson: Girls Need Not Apply
This inspiring, compelling debut memoir chronicles the experiences of a female captain serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, and her…
Michelle Barker: The House of One Thousand Eyes
This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic…
Ruth Daniell: The Brightest Thing
At turns heartbreaking and joyful, with an unabashed eye for beauty and an unapologetic hope for love, Daniell questions the…
Nazanine Hozar: Aria
This extraordinary, gripping debut is a rags-to-riches-to-revolution tale about an orphan girl's coming of age in Iran.
Daria Salamon: Don't Try This at Home
Rob Krause and Daria Salamon sold their car, rented out their Winnipeg home, and packed up their two young children…
Shayne Morrow: The Bulldog and the Helix
A investigative reporter traces the role of DNA evidence in two groundbreaking murder cases involving young girls killed two decades…
David A. Poulsen: None So Deadly
It’s a case that has haunted Cullen and Cobb for years — the murder of eleven-year-old Faith Unruh. And now…
Emily Davidson: Lift
The debut collection of New Brunswick poet Emily Davidson, Lift is an examination of how to be alive without being…
Kayla Czaga: Dunk Tank
Kayla Czaga's poems explore the varied and strange relationships that underpin a young woman’s coming of age, from inconsequential boyfriends…
Ria Voros: The Centre of the Universe
Ria Voros reaches for the stars here, deftly combining mystery with a passion for science and themes of mother-daughter bonds,…
Kyla Jamieson: Kind of Animal
The poems in Kind of Animal document the immediate aftermath of a concussion and the symptom-woven seasons that follow. In…
Elaine Woo: Put Your Hand in Mine
This is a book of the inner sea. Language, concept, and form alternate holding the depths. That broken diamond of…
Brenda Leifso: Wild Madder
These frank, bracingly recognizable poems will be irresistible—and cathartic—for anyone who has ever felt their life chewing them into little…
Dina Del Bucchia: It’s a Big Deal!
So many things seem like a BIG DEAL: fashionable clothes, food trends for healthfulness and coolness, personal turmoils, what someone…
Matthew Walsh: These are not the potatoes of my youth
In this nomadic journey, Matthew Walsh explores queer identity set against an ever-changing landscape of what we want, and who…
Megan Gail Coles: Small Game Hunting
By turns biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Gail Coles’ debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked…
Paula Jane Remlinger: This Hole Called January
From Superman to James Bond, from childhood’s imaginings to life’s darkest moments, Paula Remlinger explores identity and depression with humour…
Caroline Goodwin: Custody of the Eyes
I walked right out through the gate you left / after the rain folded back. And that which / gave…
Katherin Edwards: A Thin Band
A Thin Band examines the fine line between remembering and forgetting, the expected / unexpected, and the moments that we…
Lindsay Wong: The Woo-Woo
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their…
Colleen Anderson: A Body of Work
Savory teeth, sentient insects, deadly automatons, VR worlds, ensorcelled blades, nanotech healing, possessive fungus, gingerbread people, prophetic soap bubbles and…
Michelle Barker: The House of One Thousand Eyes
Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it’s particularly hard.…
Jennifer Chen: Super
When a new villain threatens the city, Beata is launched into a whirlwind of mystery, danger, and conspiracy. With a…
Natalie Morrill: The Ghost Keeper
Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vienna during the 1930s and…
Shilo Jones: On the Up
In this wild, stylish, wickedly funny debut, Shilo Jones charts the journey of three players caught in a high-stakes property…
Sarah Selecky: Radiant Shimmering Light
A sharply funny and wise debut novel about female friendship, the face we show the world online and letting your…
Amy Stuart: Still Water
From the Globe and Mail bestselling author of Still Mine comes a new thriller featuring Clare and Malcolm, this time…
Jen Neale: Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
A stunning exploration of love and grief, Land Mammals and Sea Creatures is magic realism on the seaside, a novel about living…
Jean Van Loon: Building on River
An upstart from Lower Canada’s Shefford Township, John Rudolphus Booth arrived in roughhouse Bytown in the early 1850s with a…
Ellen Keith: The Dutch Wife
From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret…
Genevieve Scott: Catch My Drift
Spanning two decades, Catch My Drift follows mother and daughter through life changes big and small, and reveals that despite our shared…
Jan Redford: End of the Rope
In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, the gritty, funny, achingly honest story of a young climber’s struggle to become whole…
Joelle Barron: Ritual Lights
Absorbed in the small, everyday rituals of existence, this remarkable collection of poems tears open the fruit of life and…
Kim Fu: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of…
Amber Dawn: Sodom Road Exit
The second novel by Lambda Literary Award Winner Amber Dawn: at once a compelling family melodrama and a lesbian supernatural…
John Mavin: Rage
In his debut short fiction collection, John Mavin has slyly exposed themes hidden deep below the surface with breathtaking potency,…
Will Clarke: The Neon Palm of Madame Melançon
What begins as a comic romp in the tradition of Cervantes, ends with breathtaking revelations about the mysteries of time,…
Deborah Patz: WRITE! SHOOT! EDIT!: The Complete Guide for Teen Filmmakers
Deb Patz, film industry pro since the 80s and author, is your mentor in making “first films” – a new…
Monica Meneghetti: What the Mouth Wants
This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love.
Jill MacKenzie: Spin the Sky
Magnolia Woodson wants nothing more than to get her and her sister, Rose, out of the pitifully small, clamming-obsessed, Oregon…
Miriam Libicki: Toward A Hot Jew
In her first collection of graphic essays, Miriam Libicki investigates what it means globally and culturally to be Jewish, dating…
Bob Wakulich: The Fluke and Other Dramas
This collection features a screenplay (The Fluke), a one-act play (Electroshock Matinee), a short screenplay (The Blue Suit Special), a…
Michelle Deines: A Dog at a Feast
A dark comedy, A Dog at a Feast examines the power of the fear of judgement, and how we are…
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler: Wrist
As he begins to unravel his family’s dark history, Church must race to protect the secrets buried deep in bones…
Chelsea Bolan: The Good Sister
Engaging and emotionally rich, this novel is a fascinating exploration of betrayal and steadfast devotion, and the ways in which…
Brent van Staalduinen: Saints, Unexpected
From fighting unscrupulous developers to first loves to the anguish that comes from never knowing what your final words to…
Laura Trunkey: Double Dutch
Shape-shifters, doppelgangers, and spirits inhabit the extraordinary worlds depicted in Trunkey’s stories: a single mother believes her toddler is the…
Richard Stevenson: Fruit Wedge Moon
Zap, grackle, pop! East meets west in these contemporary urban micro poems. Whether exploring haikai forms or improvising jazz renku…
Karim Alrawi: Book of Sands
A powerful, lyrical novel of the endurance of love, set amid the upheaval of the Arab Spring and the brutal…
Joe Wiebe: Craft Beer Revolution
With profiles of BC's finest craft breweries, as well as tap lists, bottle shops and an insider's look at the…
Brandy Lien Worrall: What Doesn't Kill Us
The book reflects on the parallels between her experiences with cancer, and her American father’s and Vietnamese mother’s trauma and…
Gillian Wigmore: orient
Composed mainly of three long poems—an extended meditation on the connection between man and fish, the lament of a big-souled…
Chelsea Rooney: Pedal
Sometimes shocking in its candour, yet charmed with enigmatic characters, Pedal explores how we are shaped by accidents of timing—trauma…
Sandra Lynn Lynxleg: Glass Beads
Glass Beads is Lynxleg’s first collection of poetry published by Black Moss Press. It is the manifestation of Lynxleg’s bravery…
Kathryn Para: Lucky
Lucky explores essential questions about war photography, the price paid by journalists and the moral dilemmas of love and war.
Ann Ireland: The Blue Guitar
More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only…