God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Text by Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Juliana Neufeld
Foreword by Cherie Dimaline
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult

A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity.

In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first ...

Burning Sugar

By Cicely Belle Blain
Categories: Poetry, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature
Series: VS. Books

The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation.

In this incendiary debut collection, activist ...

Render

By Sachiko Murakami
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature

Governor General's Literary Award finalist

Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience.

Render (v. tr. ): to submit, as for consideration; ...

The Gospel of Breaking

By Jillian Christmas
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian ...

I Promise

Text by Catherine Hernandez
Illustrated by Syrus Marcus Ware
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's, Trans Literature

Catherine Hernandez's literary career exploded with the 2017 publication of her award-winning novel Scarborough. Her latest, I Promise, marks her delightful return to children's literature, having published ...

The Blue Road

Text by Wayde Compton
Illustrated by April dela Noche Milne
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, BIPOC, Black Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

A Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year

In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, ...

Dear Scarlet

By Teresa Wong
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Health, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Longlisted for Canada Reads; Finalist, City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize

In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum ...

Double Melancholy

By C.E. Gatchalian
Categories: Biography & Memoir, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own identity. ...

Death Threat

By Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Ness Lee
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Doug Wright Award

In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated ...

Shut Up You're Pretty

By Tea Mutonji
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Black Literature
Series: VS. Books

Winner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

In Tea Mutonji's disarming debut story ...