Li Charmaine Anne: Crash Landing
This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends.
Leanne Dunic: Wet
In photographs and language shot through with empathy and desire, Wet unravels complexities of social stratification, sexual privation, and environmental catastrophe.
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.
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.
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.