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Jacqueline Firkins: Marlowe Banks, Redesigned
In this romantic women’s fiction about second chances, a young woman escapes to LA to start fresh after a failed career and broken engagement.
Nikki Vogel: Silencing Rebecca
In this genre-bending debut YA novel combining elements of horror, magic realism, and realistic fiction, Rebecca Waldmann’s sheltered life as an Orthodox Jewish teen in Toronto is shattered when her father moves them to Edmonton, where she is plunged into the worldly life of a public high school.
Nathan Adler, MFA 2020
Nathan Adler is author of Wrist, and Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press), and co-editor of Bawaajigan ~ Stories of Power (Exile Editions), he has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, is recipient of an Indigenous Voices Award, and a Hnatyshyn Reveal award, and teaches Creative Writing at Kwantlen University. He is Jewish and Anishinaabe, and a member of Lac des Mille […]
Lucas J. W. Johnson: The Clockwork Empire
It is the height of the industrial revolution, and the Roman Empire has stood for thousands of years. Airborne fortresses and mechanically remade soldiers guard against threats outside the empire’s vast borders—even as it rots from the inside.
Brent van Staalduinen: Cut Road
Containing a rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories, Cut Road is a masterful exploration of the loss and scars that conflict always leaves behind.
Patti Flather: Such a Lovely Afternoon
Such a Lovely Afternoon is a poignant, unflinching collection, including a novella, six linked stories and two others. Characters confront urgent questions about gender, identity, family, community, what reconciliation in Canada might look like and where it falls painfully short.
Francine Cunningham: God Isn’t Here Today
Driven by desperation into moments of transformation, Cunningham’s characters are presented with moments of choice—some for the better and some for the worse.
Emily Davidson, MFA 2012
Emily Davidson is a writer from Saint John, New Brunswick. Her poetry has appeared in publications including Arc, CV2, Descant, The Fiddlehead, Room, subTerrain, and The Best Canadian Poetry 2015. Her fiction has appeared in Grain and Maisonneuve and was short-listed for The Malahat Review’s 2013 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction. Emily resides in […]
Jasmine Sealy: The Island of Forgetting
Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, this is a novel about the echo of deep—and sometimes tragic—love and the ways a family’s past can haunt its future.
Brooke Carter: Sulfur Heart
Will’s father was just found dead in a pile of sulfur.
He was a retired cop who’d been working as a night security guard at the SulCorp sulfur mill. Now, to determine if his death was a tragic accident or something more sinister, Will must return to the place he swore he’d never set foot in again.