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, Black Literature, Trans 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: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Black Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult

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: 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: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

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 ...

Dear Scarlet

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

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 ...

Shut Up You're Pretty

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

CANADA READS RUNNER-UP, 2024

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 ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

Disintegrate/Dissociate

By Arielle Twist
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada) and the Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful ...

Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry, Disability Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class ...