Sharp Notions

Edited by Marita Dachsel & Nancy Lee
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies, Biography & Memoir, Anthologies

Personal essays from diverse voices about their relationships to the fibre arts

Sometimes the reliability of a knit stitch, the steady rocking of a quilting needle, the solid structure of a loom is all ...

Queer Little Nightmares

Edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
Categories: LGBTQ+ Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature, Anthologies

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout ...

Hustling Verse

Edited by Amber Dawn & Justin Ducharme
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Gay Literature, Trans Literature, Anthologies, Poetry

Lambda Literary Award finalist

In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience ...

The Remedy

Edited by Zena Sharman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Trans Literature, Health, Anthologies, Social Issues, Disability Literature, Lesbian Literature

Lambda Literary Award winner

To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations.

The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving ...

AlliterAsian

Edited by Julia Lin, Allan Cho, and Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Anthologies, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A wide-ranging anthology of Asian Canadian literature to celebrate 20 years of Ricepaper.

2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian-Canadian writing. ...

Craftivism

Edited by Betsy Greer
Categories: Visual Arts, Anthologies, Crafts & Hobbies, Cultural Studies, Politics

Craftivism is a worldwide movement that operates at the intersection of craft and activism; Craftivism the book is full of inspiration for crafters who want to create works that add to the greater good. ...

V6A

Edited by John Mikhail Asfour & Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Categories: Anthologies

Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award

"V6A" is the postal prefix for what is often described as "the poorest neighbourhood in Canada"--Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). Statistics about the area depict ...

Persistence

Edited by Ivan Coyote & Zena Sharman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Women's Literature, Anthologies, Trans Literature

Named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association

Lambda Literary Award finalist
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena ...

I Like It Like That

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Erotica, Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Shortlisted for a TLA Gaybie Award (Best Gay Erotica)

From the editors of the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer come these intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men's ...

Second Person Queer

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Anthologies, Biography & Memoir, Gay Literature

First Person Queer, an anthology of non-fiction essays written in the first person by a variety of gay and lesbian authors, was a snapshot of LGBT life and experience in the modern age. Published in 2007, ...