Emily Pohl-Weary: How To Be Found
A young adult novel about inner-city teens who live on a razor’s edge and understand that chosen family is just as important as blood.
Billy-Ray Belcourt: A Minor Chorus
A Minor Chorus is a novel that tracks a queer Indigenous doctoral student’s attempt to write a novel instead of a dissertation.
Susan Musgrave: Exculpatory Lilies
Throughout this collection, Musgrave’s alertness to even the most desolate places makes her personal sorrows astonishingly potent; and her scrutiny of language, and emotions, makes shot silk out of sackcloth and ashes.
Sheryda Warrener: Test Piece
This book considers ways of seeing, thinking through art, the domestic, and the making and unmaking of a self. It traces one woman’s movement from formality and orderliness to a sense of mutability.
Tanya Kyi: Better Connected
From environmental activism and gun control to immigration policy and education, girls are leading the way.
Tanya Kyi: Our Green City
This picture book is a charming, child-centred tour of a sustainable city.
Bronwen Tate: Midwinter Constellation
A radical experiment in collective writing, the book embroiders, echoes, and blurs the voices of poets across the U.S. and beyond.
John Vigna: No Man’s Land
A sprawling saga set in the Canadian wilderness of the late 19th century, about a teenaged girl named Davey, a charismatic fraudster, and the unbearable weight of fate.
Bronwen Tate: The Silk the Moths Ignore
The Silk the Moths Ignore animates the liminal, sometimes gothic, spaces of miscarriage, pregnancy, and early parenthood with exquisite defamiliarizing detail.
Alix Ohlin: We Want What We Want
A collection of glittering, surprising, darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives.