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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 despots, where nothing is what it seems.
Alix Ohlin: Dual Citizens
In this meditation on motherhood, sisterhood, desire, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complex path towards fulfillment as an artist and a human being.
Alison Acheson: A Little House in a Big Place
Alison Acheson has created a deceptively simple, warm story that will stay with readers of all ages long after they’ve closed the book.
Emily Davidson: Lift
The debut collection of New Brunswick poet Emily Davidson, Lift is an examination of how to be alive without being adrift. Loosely narrative, the collection spans two Canadian coasts, its speaker a transplant from Atlantic to Pacific.
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 to the friendships that rescue us from “grey daily moments.”
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, celebrity, first love and best friendship.
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 concrete, visceral, and accessible language, Jamieson illuminates the lived reality of an invisible illness that is often reduced to medical jargon or symptom labels and difficult for outsiders to comprehend.
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 we are, were, and came to be.
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 cast of characters, building towards a climax that will shred perceptions and force a reckoning.
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 woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds.