Harriet Alida Lye is the author of two novels, one memoir and one children’s picture book. Her essays and reporting have been published in The Globe & Mail, The New York Times and more. She teaches creative writing and works with authors as a mentor and editor. She has lived in Halifax, Paris, Amsterdam, New […]
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JOSEPH KERTES was born in Hungary but escaped with his family to Canada after the revolution of 1956. He studied English at York University and the University of Toronto, where he was encouraged in his writing by Irving Layton and Marshall McLuhan. His first novel, Winter Tulips, won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. His […]
Adam Sol is the Blake C. Goldring Professor at Victoria College, University of Toronto. His latest book, Broken Dawn Blessings (ECW 2021) won the Vine Award and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry. He has published four other books of poetry, and one collection of essays, How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for […]
Antanas Sileika is the author of six books of fiction and two memoirs. He has been short-listed for the City of Toronto Literary Award, and the Leacock Medial for humour, and long-listed for Canada Reads. He was director of The Humber School for Writers from 2002-2017. His novel, Provisionally Yours, was made into a feature […]
A funny, boisterous, and deeply moving novel about aging hairstylist Roland’s childhood friendship with Birdy O’Day, whose fevered quest for pop music glory drives them apart Roland Keener is an aging hairstylist who’s lived and worked in the same town all his life. He’s more or less content with the quiet and predictable days he […]
Greg Kearney (he/him) is the author of the short story collections Mommy Daddy Baby (McGilligan Books, 2004) and Pretty (Exile Editions, 2011), which won the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, and the novel The Desperates (Cormorant Books, 2013), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. His plays have been mounted […]
Chido Muchemwa is a Zimbabwean writer and academic currently based in Toronto. Her short stories have previously appeared in Augur, Canthius, Catapult, Humber Literary Review and Prism International amongst others. She has been shortlisted twice for the Short Story Day Africa Prize and placed 2nd in the Humber Literary Review’s 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest. She […]
Nazneen Sheikh was born in Kashmir and went to school in Pakistan and Texas. She has written three titles for young adult audiences: Camels Can Make You Homesick and Other Stories (1985); Heartbreak High (1988); and Lucy and Time of My Life for the Degrassi television series (1989). She has also written several books of […]
TASNEEM JAMAL was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Her debut novel Where the Air Is Sweet was published to critical acclaim in 2014. That same year she was named one of 12 rising CanLit stars on CBC’s annual list of Writers to Watch. Her writing has appeared in Chatelaine, Saturday […]
Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own. Set in Toronto and Zimbabwe, the twelve elegant stories in Who Will Bury You? touch on themes of loss, identity, and inequality as they follow the lives of Zimbabweans who often feel […]
Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures. A man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean. Pilgrims stretch into […]
Spanning several decades and three countries, these enchanting short stories dwell unsentimentally on shifting homes and lost ancestral homelands, distant memories and fragmented family ties. Largely inspired by the author’s own life experiences, they depict close parental bonds, poignant encounters, tragedies and personal triumphs. Injustice, the importance of education and a love of literature are […]
A taut tale of female friendship and betrayal. Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly different from their parents’. Motivated by guilt and confusion, the unnamed narrator recounts the shifting dynamics of her lifelong friendship with Miriam, a […]
Edward Lee was born in Montreal. He is a former arbitrator and lawyer. His fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and in various literary magazines. His radio documentary, Tiger Balm, Batman Comics, and Barbeque Pork, was produced by CBC Radio’s Outfront. The Laundryman’s Boy is his first […]
Fall 1913, St. Catharines, Ontario. Thirteen-year-old Hoi Wing Woo, the son of a scholar, is forced to give up his dreams of an education when he is sent to work in a Chinese laundry in Canada. Hoi Wing is immediately thrust into relentless, mind-numbing toil, washing clothes by hand for sixteen hours a day, six […]
The premium special edition hardcover will feature an exquisite gold foil jacket, stunning four-color endpapers designed for personal inscription, and beautiful blue sprayed edges. “A feast of a novel, The Stone Witch of Florence is erudite, transportive, and addicting. Magical in every sense of the word.” —Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters A woman’s secret. A […]
Anna Rasche is a historian and gemologist who has previously worked in the jewelry collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a curatorial fellow at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Rasche’s debut is based on original research she conducted on the uses of gemstones in medieval medicine at the Cooper Hewitt Museum […]
Kate Heartfield is the author of numerous works, including the bestselling The Embroidered Book. Her debut novel won Canada’s Aurora Award, and her novellas, stories and games have been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Sunburst and Aurora awards. A former journalist, Kate lives near Ottawa, Canada
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter’s/Little Peguis) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba. He is a regular commentator on Indigenous issues on CTV, CBC and APTN, and his written work can be found in the pages of The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, newspapers like The Guardian, and […]
Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditional written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders […]
From ground zero of this country’s most important project: reconciliation Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country’s most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, the place he calls “ground zero” of Canada’s […]
Maya is excited to be in India visiting Grandma, but their time together isn’t quite what she expected … A companion book to When I Found Grandma. It’s Maya’s first morning in India, but Grandma is already rushing her — it’s market day and they must make the most of Maya’s visit. When Maya comes out […]
Saumiya Balasubramaniam is the author of two picture books, When I Found Grandma, illustrated by Qin Leng (finalist for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award) and Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White (Skipping Stones Honor Book). Her stories are loosely inspired by her own family experiences. Saumiya was born in Mumbai, India, […]
A young writer finds his way in and out of love in late twentieth-century Toronto. The scene is Toronto, the early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman—a poet named Gudrun Peel—rapidly becomes the person for […]
