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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 into the hearts of people from all walks of life in a rural Ohio town.
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 with a powerful message of self-love.
Francine Cunningham: ON/me
In her debut poetry collection, Francine Cunningham explores, with keen attention and poise, what it means to be forced to exist within the margins.
Michael Christie: Greenwood
Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family’s origin story.
Leanne Dunic: The Gift
The Gift contains a short story by Leanne Dunic and lyrics she wrote for a companion album of the same name by The Deep Cove.
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 and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change.
Keith Maillard: Fatherless
This story begins with a phone call out of the blue: a lawyer tells a writer that his ninety-six-year-old father, with whom he has had no contact since the age of three and whom he has twice tried to find without success, has just died, leaving him nothing. Keith Maillard begins to research his father’s life.
Sarah Leavitt: Agnes, Murderess
A graphic novel inspired by the bloody legend of Agnes MacVee, roadhouse owner, madam and serial killer, who is said to have murdered more than 50 people in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in the mid- to late nineteenth century.
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 journey to make space for herself in a traditionally masculine world.
Alison Acheson: Dance Me to the End
A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS.