Iron Goddess of Mercy

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

Like a Boy but Not a Boy

By andrea bennett
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues

A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body.

Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author ...

Butter Honey Pig Bread

By francesca ekwuyasi
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

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: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous 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 ...

Burning Sugar

By Cicely Belle Blain
Categories: Poetry, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, 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 ...

We Had No Rules

By Corinne Manning
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature

A defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life.

A young teenager runs from her family's conservative home to her sister's NY apartment to learn ...

Vanishing Monuments

By John Elizabeth Stintzi
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalist

A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.

Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and ...

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

By Amber Dawn
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature

Finalist, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes

In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes ...

The Gospel of Breaking

By Jillian Christmas
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry

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, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Lesbian Literature, Gay Literature, Black Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's

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 ...