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Brent van Staalduinen: Unthinkable
Brent van Staalduinen’s Unthinkable is a well-paced action/thriller and a tense tour of the apocalypse-in-progress.
Tanya Kyi: Emily Posts
With a light touch and plenty of humor, Emily Posts explores issues of social media, influence, corporate sponsorship . . . and the fraught waters of middle-school friendship.
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, love poetry, and song.
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 cope when life gets tough.
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, and with creatures of Ojibwe legend.
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 itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward.
Kara Stanley: A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music
Kara Stanley tells the compelling story of her husband’s life-changing brain and spinal cord injury and the role of music, science, and love in recovery.
Kara Stanley: Ghost Warning
New novel by breakout author, Kara Stanley, navigates Toronto’s underbelly of urban grime, crime, and sublime.