Hustling Verse

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

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 ...

Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Disability Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

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

Disintegrate/Dissociate

By Arielle Twist
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Poetry

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada) and the Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful ...

Chinatown Ghosts

By Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Photography, 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 ...

a place called No Homeland

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

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 ...

even this page is white

By Vivek Shraya
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature winner

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Longlisted for Canada Reads

As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya ...

Kingsway

By Michael Turner
Categories: British Columbia, Poetry

New edition of Michael Turner's seminal 1995 poetry collection, including a new essay by the author.

When Michael Turner's Kingsway was published in 1995, critics and readers were either effusive in their ...

AlliterAsian

Edited by Julia Lin, Allan Cho, and Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Anthologies, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A wide-ranging anthology of Asian Canadian literature to celebrate 20 years of Ricepaper.

2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian-Canadian writing. ...

Where the words end and my body begins

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

The first full-length poetry book by the Lambda Literary and Vancouver Book Award Winner.

Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Award-winning writer Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her ...

Artificial Cherry

By Billeh Nickerson
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Finalist, Vancouver Book Award

Billeh Nickerson is one of Canada's showiest poets; colourful, witty, and wise, with undertones of sexy. By turns outlandish and poignant, Artificial Cherry heralds the return ...