How to Fail as a Popstar

By Vivek Shraya
Foreword by Brendan Healy
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, ...

Iron Goddess of Mercy

By Larissa Lai
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry

Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dances with them ...

nedi nezu (Good Medicine)

By Tenille K. Campbell
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Women's 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, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, 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, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

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: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, BIPOC, Asian Literature

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