My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

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

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 ...

Little Fish

By Casey Plett
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Women's Literature

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction

Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the dead of winter in ...

The Rat People

By Patrick Saint-Paul
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Social Issues, History, Cultural Studies

A shocking exploration of Beijing's notorious underground where over 1 million residents live: a sobering reminder of the human cost of capitalism.

In a relatively short amount of time, China has become ...

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 ...

We Had No Rules

By Corinne Manning
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction

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 ...

Vanishing Monuments

By John Elizabeth Stintzi
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalist

A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.

Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and ...

You Suck, Sir

By Paul Bae
Categories: Biography & Memoir
Series: Robin's Egg Books

By the creator/co-creator of the podcasts The Black Tapes and The Big Loop: reading between the lines of the hilarious conversations between a teacher and his students.

Before he became a famous stand-up ...

Conflict Is Not Abuse

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: History, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Politics, Social Issues, Cultural Studies, Women's Literature

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. ...

Holden After and Before

By Tara McGuire
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Social Issues

Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire's excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental ...

Queer Little Nightmares

Edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
Categories: LGBTQ+ Literature, Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry, Gay Literature, Fiction

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout ...