Vanishing Monuments

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

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 teacher, hasn't seen their mother since ...

I Promise

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

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp ...

Hustling Verse

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

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 through the expressive ...

Death Threat

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

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 ...

Disintegrate/Dissociate

By Arielle Twist
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage ...

Sketchtasy

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils ...

Little Fish

By Casey Plett
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction

Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the dead of winter in ...

a place called No Homeland

By Kai Cheng Thom
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book; Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle Award for ...

The Remedy

Edited by Zena Sharman
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Gay Literature, Anthologies, Lesbian Literature, Health

Lambda Literary Award winner

To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations.

The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving ...