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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 sorry-not-sorry confessionalism.
Nadine Bachan, MFA 2015
Nadine is a Vancouver-based writer, born in Trinidad and raised in Toronto. Nadine’s nonfiction work explores culture and identity. In 2020, she received an Award for Project Assistance for Creative Writers from the BC Arts Council and she was a Research and Creation Grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2018. Recent […]
Mallory Tater: The Birth Yard
A debut novel for readers of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Girls, The Birth Yard is a gripping story of a young woman’s rebellion against the rules that control her body.
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 her young daughter on a wild and unexpected adventure through Depression-era cowboy country in central British Columbia.
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.