I Promise

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

In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking ...

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

In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's ...

The Walking Boy

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

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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

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

Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Health, Social Issues

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

In ...

The Tiger Flu

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

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go ...

Chinatown Ghosts

By Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry

Jim Wong-Chu is a legend in the Asian Canadian writing community. As founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (and its magazine Ricepaper), he constantly encouraged and inspired writers across ...