Kimiko Does Cancer

Text by Kimiko Tobimatsu
Illustrated by Keet Geniza
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Health, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Disability Literature

A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman.

At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history ...

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, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black 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: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction

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, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian 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: 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: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Trans Literature, Lesbian Literature, Black 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 ...

Rebent Sinner

By Ivan Coyote
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Governor General's Literary Award finalist; BC Book Prize winner (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Forest of Reading Evergreen Award finalist

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent ...

Hustling Verse

Edited by Amber Dawn & Justin Ducharme
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Poetry, Trans Literature, Lesbian Literature, Anthologies

Lambda Literary Award finalist

In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience ...