Women's Literature
Dandelion
Longlisted for Canada Reads
Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs.
When Lily was eleven ...
A Dream of a Woman
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
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 ...
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)
Indigenous Voices Award finalist
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 ...
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
Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada); Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; ...
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 ...