Brandi Bird: The All + Flesh
Brandi Bird’s frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.
Nafiza Azad: Writing in Color
Rethink the way you approach writing in this revolutionary and informative new anthology from fourteen diverse authors that demystifies craft and authorship based on their experiences as writers of colour.
Josiah Neufeld: The Temple at the End of the Universe
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
Adam Meisner: For Both Resting and Breeding
It is 2150 in M-City, a society without gender where everyone uses the pronoun ish. When two historians discover an abandoned millennium-era house, they hatch a plan to turn the building into a museum that re-enacts life in the year 2000.
Genevieve Scott: The Damages
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an ice storm, and explores themes of memory, trauma, friendship, and identity. The Damages is a page-turning, thought-provoking novel about the lies we tell other people and the lies we tell ourselves.
Buffy Cram: Once Upon An Effing Time
A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty.
Curtis LeBlanc: Sunsetter
A fast-paced literary thriller that peels back the layers of small-town police corruption, drugs, and teen disillusionment to expose unlikely heroes and unexpected villains.
Jill Yonit Goldberg: The Fire Still Burns
“My name is Sam George. In spite of everything that happened to me, by the grace of the Creator, I have lived to be an Elder.” The Fire Still Burns is an unflinching look at the horrors of a childhood in the Indian Residential School system and the long-term effects on survivors. It illustrates the healing power of one’s culture and the resilience that allows an individual to rebuild a life and a future.
Conor Kerr: Old Gods
Conor Kerr’s sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. In Old Gods, Kerr defies colonialism and situates his reader in the Métis mindset: the old gods of the land are alive within the rivers, the birds, the hills and the prairies that surround us, and they’ll always be here.
Ellen Keith: The Dutch Orphan
From the author of The Dutch Wife comes a riveting novel set during World War II about a woman who offers shelter to a Jewish baby, and her sister, who must choose between family loyalty and her own safety.