How to Fail as a Popstar

By Vivek Shraya
Foreword by Brendan Healy
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans 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: Poetry, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

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 dance with them ...

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 ...

Render

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

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; ...

I Promise

Text by Catherine Hernandez
Illustrated by Syrus Marcus Ware
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Lesbian Literature, Black 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 ...

Dear Scarlet

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

Death Threat

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

Double Melancholy

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

The Walking Boy

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

Tonguebreaker

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

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 ...