Women's Literature
A Dream of a Woman
Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women.
Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker ...
Nowadays and Lonelier
A vibrant debut story collection about loneliness and love, privilege and poverty, addiction and isolation - the search for connection and meaning in a workaday world.
For fans of Heather O'Neill's Daydreams ...
Iron Goddess of Mercy
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 ...
nedi nezu (Good Medicine)
A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country.
nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as ...
The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly
A visionary young-adult illustrated novel about Eggs, a homeless girl who knows how to fly.
In a rusted unnamed city full of five-dollar hotels and flea markets, a young homeless girl named Eggs is trying ...
Butter Honey Pig Bread
2021 CANADA READS FINALIST
Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; finalist, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; finalist, Lambda Literary Award
An intergenerational ...
Burning Sugar
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 ...
Render
Governor General's Literary Award finalist
Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience.
Render (v. tr. ): to submit, as for consideration; ...
We Had No Rules
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 ...
My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems
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 ...