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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.

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.