Gabriela Halas: Bloodwater Tint
Bloodwater Tint centers on themes including the pain of infertility, the body’s mystery and the search for transformation.
Natalie Southworth: There’s Always More to Say
The stories that make up There’s Always More to Say focus on characters struggling to achieve what they think they should want despite the demands and loneliness of modern life.
Mark Leiren-Young: Greener Than Thou
Mark Leiren-Young, a lifelong environmentalist and Leacock Medal-winning humour writer, journeys to the heart of greenness to reveal the toxic sludge of Canadian eco-politics.
Benjamin Wood: Seascraper
Haunting and timeless, this is the story of a young man hemmed in by his circumstances, striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.
Rebecca Wood Barrett: My Summer Camp Has Mega Sloths
In this follow-up to the award-winning My Best Friend Is Extinct, Henry and his friends attend a summer camp led by a shady head counselor. Luckily, there’s still fun to be had: Henry reunites with Yarp, a prehistoric short-faced bear, and discovers a herd of gentle mega sloths. When a wildfire encroaches, everyone has to band together to escape.
Page Getz: A Town with Half the Lights On
A Town with Half the Lights On is a tender testament to the notions that home isn’t just the place you live, family isn’t just your relatives, and it’s almost never easy to find the courage to do what’s right.
Logan Garner: The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds
The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds is filled with huckleberries, bats, barn swallows, flowers, fish, frogs. The “I” of the poem speaker finds itself through observation of what is all around: the living and the dying, and the things that live through soil.
Scotty Olsen: My Grandmother, My Kookum
Scotty Olsen’s essay My Grandmother, My Kookum is published in the International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine Fourth Quarterly Edition 2024.
Meredith Hambrock: She’s a Lamb!
She’s a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion.
Shane Goth: Hannah and the Wrong Note
A young pianist realizes that mistakes can sometimes lead to joyful discoveries in this melodic picture book.