nedi nezu (Good Medicine)

By Tenille K. Campbell
Categories: Women's Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

Indigenous Voices Award finalist

A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country.

nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous ...

Butter Honey Pig Bread

By francesca ekwuyasi
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, Women's Literature

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada); Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; ...

Love after the End

Edited by Joshua Whitehead
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award winner

A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed.

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases ...

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, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, Women's 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: Women's Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian 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: BIPOC, Black Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian 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+, Trans Literature, Gay Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Black Literature, Asian Literature, Lesbian 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: BIPOC, Black Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, 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, ...

Double Melancholy

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

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. ...