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 ...

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 ...

Disintegrate/Dissociate

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

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 ...

Tonguebreaker

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

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 ...

Chinatown Ghosts

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

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: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans 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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Poetry

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: Fiction, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Anthologies

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: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry, Women's 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 ...