Nikki Vogel: Silencing Rebecca
In this genre-bending debut YA novel combining elements of horror, magic realism, and realistic fiction, Rebecca Waldmann’s sheltered life as an Orthodox Jewish teen in Toronto is shattered when her father moves them to Edmonton, where she is plunged into the worldly life of a public high school.
Danny Ramadan: The Foghorn Echoes
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim.
Lucas J. W. Johnson: The Clockwork Empire
It is the height of the industrial revolution, and the Roman Empire has stood for thousands of years. Airborne fortresses and mechanically remade soldiers guard against threats outside the empire’s vast borders—even as it rots from the inside.
Brent van Staalduinen: Cut Road
Containing a rich mix of acclaimed and award-winning stories, Cut Road is a masterful exploration of the loss and scars that conflict always leaves behind.
Patti Flather: Such a Lovely Afternoon
Such a Lovely Afternoon is a poignant, unflinching collection, including a novella, six linked stories and two others. Characters confront urgent questions about gender, identity, family, community, what reconciliation in Canada might look like and where it falls painfully short.
Francine Cunningham: God Isn’t Here Today
Driven by desperation into moments of transformation, Cunningham’s characters are presented with moments of choice—some for the better and some for the worse.
Colleen Anderson: I Dreamed A World
A collection of 60 poems exploring fairy tales, myths, witches and legends from a female perspective.
Jasmine Sealy: The Island of Forgetting
Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, this is a novel about the echo of deep—and sometimes tragic—love and the ways a family’s past can haunt its future.
Brooke Carter: Sulfur Heart
Will’s father was just found dead in a pile of sulfur.
He was a retired cop who’d been working as a night security guard at the SulCorp sulfur mill. Now, to determine if his death was a tragic accident or something more sinister, Will must return to the place he swore he’d never set foot in again.
Shannon Webb-Campbell: Lunar Tides
These poems explore the primordial connections between love, grief and water, structured within the lunar calendar. The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon and deep familial relationships that are both personal and ancestral.