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.
Winona Kent: Ticket to Ride
In 1974, top UK band Figgis Green was riding high in the charts with their blend of traditional Celtic ballads mixed with catchy, folky pop. One of their biggest fans was sixteen-year old Pippa Gladstone, who mysteriously vanished while she was on holiday with her parents in Spain in March that same year.
Paul Coccia: On the Line
Thirteen-year-old basketball star Jordan Ryker feels like his life is falling apart. All Jordie wanted was for his parents to stop fighting. Soon, he gets his wish. His parents separate and then his dad announces he’s gay.
Rhett Davis: Hovering
The city was in the same place. But was it the same city? Alice stands outside her family’s 1950s red brick veneer, unsure if she should approach. It has been sixteen years, but it’s clear she is out of options. Lydia opens the door to a familiar stranger – thirty-nine, tall, bony, pale. She knows her sister immediately. But something isn’t right.
Gabrielle Prendergast: The Overwood
Blue and his Faerie friends race through the snowy winter streets of the city as they follow clues and face challenges both magical and human, desperately trying to find Blue’s mom and her wicked captor. But they have no idea what Queen Olea has in store for them.