Dandelion

By Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature

Longlisted for Canada Reads

Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs.

When Lily was eleven ...

Beast at Every Threshold

By Natalie Wee
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A formidable collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of "otherness" through folklore and myth.

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural ...

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

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 ...

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; ...

I Promise

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

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 ...

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 ...