How Poetry Saved My Life

By Amber Dawn
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Biography & Memoir

Vancouver Book Award winner; Lambda Literary Award finalist

A memoir about sex work and sexuality, and how writing became the author's lifeline.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating ...

Crossings

By Betty Lambert
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction

Crossings was Betty Lambert's only novel; published by Pulp Press in 1979, it was revolutionary for its frank and unsettling portrayal of Vicky, a female writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, an educated ...

Persistence

Edited by Ivan Coyote & Zena Sharman
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Anthologies, Social Issues, Lesbian Literature

Named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association

Lambda Literary Award finalist
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena ...

Venus with Biceps

By David L. Chapman
With Patricia Vertinsky
Categories: Women's Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Photography, Popular Culture, Visual Arts

As seen in People and The New Yorker

Over the last 100 years, the image of the physically strong, confident, muscular woman has
been the object of derision, fascination, and
erotic fantasy; she is often ...

Fire

By Shohini Ghosh
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Film & Media, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

Fire: A Queer Film Classic delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian
love story by Indian-born director Deepa
Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class
Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is ...

Sub Rosa

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

Lambda Literary Award Winner

In this stunning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts and transgresses the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision not for the faint of heart. Sub ...

The Only Thing I Have

By Rhonda Waterfall
Categories: Fiction, Women's Literature

Featured in Geist magazine and The Globe and Mail

A new and daring voice, Rhonda Waterfall writes with clarity about the simple, utter truths of human relationships: the small yet essential things that ...

Fist of the Spider Woman

Edited by Amber Dawn
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even ...

Rat Bohemia

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat bohemia" of New York City, whose huddled masses include ...

Comfort Food for Breakups

By Marusya Bociurkiw
Categories: Cooking, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Biography & Memoir

Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), ...