Joseph Hutchison: Under Sleep’s New Moon
The poems in this new/old collection are by turns personal and public, surreal and naturalistic, musical and plain-spoken. But all explore the liminal regions we live in every day, too often unconscious of what we’re finding there.
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt: Peacekeeper’s Daughter
Peacekeeper’s Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983, told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl
Terry Miles: Rabbits
A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.
Jordan Abel: NISHGA
From Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada’s residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.
Meghan Bell: Erase and Rewind
The stories in Erase and Rewind probe the complexities of living as a woman in a skewed society.
Patti Edgar: Anna, Analyst
On the last day of elementary school, eleven-year-old Anna finds a leather-bound book about handwriting analysis. Anna could use help deciphering people.
Susan Olding: Big Reader
Big Reader is a brilliant, achingly beautiful collection about the slipperiness of memory and identity, the enduring legacy of loss, and the nuanced disappointments and joys of a reading life.
Tara Gereaux: Saltus
The events that transpire that evening force each townsperson to look long and hard at themselves, at their own identities, and at the traumas and experiences that have shaped them. Told from multiple perspectives, Saltus reveals the complexities inherent in accepting the identities of loved ones, and the tragic consequences that unfold if they are ignored.
Rachel Rose: The Octopus Has Three Hearts
The Octopus Has Three Hearts offers dispatches from the margins of human society. These are stories about damaged people who have committed, witnessed or survived terrible acts and who must make their way in an unforgiving world.
Diane Tucker: Nostalgia for Moving Parts
Deeply grounded in the rainy mists and green reeds of the Canadian west coast, solitude becomes a spiritual practice transmuting loneliness and loss into grand appreciations for the gift of childhood and the untravelled road ahead.