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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 line.

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 literary translation, and Sino diaspora communities.

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 for yourself in the world with the help of your friends.

Leanne Dunic: Wet

In photographs and language shot through with empathy and desire, Wet unravels complexities of social stratification, sexual privation, and environmental catastrophe.

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 and her husband navigate its impact on their lives.

Robyn Braun: The Head

Robyn Braun’s novella is a surreal and penetrating tale of academia, work life and surviving trauma.

Robyn Braun is an award-winning writer and scholar. Robyn’s debut novella, The Head, is published by Enfield and Wizenty, an imprint of Great Plains Press. Her essay, “The Stutter of Emmett’s Stutter” won subTerrain’s 2021 Lush Triumphant Prize for creative nonfiction. Robyn earned a Master’s scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada […]

Margaret Nowaczyk: Marrow Memory

This is a story of constant effort, of growth, of tragedy and of triumph, and most of all, of the importance of openness.