Alumni Publications

Margaret Nowaczyk: Chasing Zebras

Margaret Nowaczyk: Chasing Zebras

From leaving Communist Poland to enduring the demands of medical school, through living with a long undiagnosed mental illness to discovering the fascinating field of genetics, plunging into the pressures of prenatal diagnosis and finally finding the tools of writing and of narrative medicine, Margaret shares a journey that is both inspiring and harrowing.

Aaron Bushkowsky: Water Proof

Aaron Bushkowsky: Water Proof

A dark, rousing comedy set in and around the Pacific Northwest, Water Proof is a story about infidelity, film-making, and the search for a missing kayaker.

Conor Kerr: Avenue of Champions

Conor Kerr: Avenue of Champions

Set in Edmonton, this story considers Indigenous youth in relation to the urban constructs and colonial spaces in which they survive—from violence, whitewashing, trauma and racism to language revitalization, relationships with Elders, restaking land claims and ultimately, triumph.

Natasha Silva: North Star Heart

Natasha Silva: North Star Heart

A collection of poetry divided into three sections, North Star Heart, is a powerful journey of self-discovery, a reclamation of roots, and a beacon for the dreams of the future delivered through the eyes of a Portuguese-Canadian.

Ellie Sawatzky: None of This Belongs to Me

Ellie Sawatzky: None of This Belongs to Me

From rural Ontario to Kitsilano to Burning Man, Sawatzky inquires into childhood learning, girlhood learning, what is inherited, what is acquired, what begins to take form in the iridescent space between innocence and experience (“The body’s crystal arithmetic”).

Shane Goth: The Midnight Club

Shane Goth: The Midnight Club

This charming midnight romp celebrates the special bond between siblings with a mischievous but safe spirit. Playful details like The Midnight Club hand signal and the special club rules are sure to inspire readers to plan their own at-home adventures.

Meg Todd: Exit Strategies

Meg Todd: Exit Strategies

The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details.

Katie Zdybel: Equipoise

Katie Zdybel: Equipoise

The women of Equipoise struggle to find their positionality in life in relation to the women around them. They are also contoured by their geographies, caught between North and South, East and West, childhood home and adulthood home. They struggle to maintain a balance within the tension of their opposing female roles, landscapes, friendships, rivalries, victories, and catastrophes, always vigourously seeking equipoise.

Barbara Nickel: Dear Peter, Dear Ulla

Barbara Nickel: Dear Peter, Dear Ulla

Dear Peter, Dear Ulla is an imaginative and beautifully crafted historical middle-grade novel about two cousins who have never met but have become fast friends through an exchange of letters—until the outbreak of World War Two interrupts their conversation.

Marie Powell: Last of the Gifted

Marie Powell: Last of the Gifted

Omnibus edition contains the complete duology, combining Spirit Sight (Book 1) and Water Sight (Book 2). Hyw and Catrin pit their magical gifts against the ruthless English army, with help from the last true Prince of Wales—after his murder!