Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit and culture collide. She brings these perspectives to essays, memoir, poetry and reviews. Gloria has an MFA from the University of King’s College, Halifax, and currently resides in Toronto. Her collection […]
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Jeff Ho is a theatre artist, originally from Hong Kong. His plays include cockroach (曱甴), Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land), Antigone: 方, and trace. Jeff is a recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama, the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best New Canadian Play, the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award, has […]
Sadi Muktadir is a writer from Toronto. His debut novel, Land of No Regrets, was published by HarperCollins Canada and Hanover Square Press on May 21st, 2024. His short stories have appeared in Joyland Magazine, the Humber Literary Review, Blank Spaces, The New Quarterly and other places. He is a two-time finalist for the Thomas […]
A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion. In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest. These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging — […]
You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened. Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can […]
Get loopy with this playful introduction to the hopeful, transformative possibilities of circular systems! Nature works on a cycle, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted. But modern humans have created a different kind of system: it’s less like a circle and more like a line. We take, make, use and […]
A heart-wrenching story of four students who find hope and kinship amidst the challenges of growing up at a harrowing madrasa in rural Ontario. Nabil, freshly plucked from middle school in Scarborough, is struggling to find his place at Al Haque Islamic Academy. Between the intense religious studies and the new rules, he still longs […]
This lyrical bedtime poem takes readers on a dreamy journey through a child’s view of the Arctic Ocean, and all the wonders it holds. “All aboard our little boat! We’ll sail all night. Let’s see where we float!” Full speed ahead as two siblings sail off for dreamland! Before these two can settle down under […]
Sydney Hegele (they/them) is a queer Anglo-Catholic writer from the Greenbelt in Southern Ontario. They are the author of Bird Suit and The Pump, which was the winner of the ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Their essays have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, EVENT, The Poetry […]
Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez was born in the Philippines, rather aptly on Hallowe’en, and grew up in a world animated by spirits and even the occasional miracle. Celestina’s House is her debut novel. She works as a communications professional, and cocoons in her west end Toronto home with her spouse and daughter in between bouts of […]
A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about how mothers and daughters pass down—and rebel against—standards of size, gender, race, beauty, and worth. Guangdong, 1954 Sixteen-year-old Mei Laan longs for a future of freedom, and her beauty may be the key to getting it. Can an arranged marriage in Hong Kong be the answer to all her […]
A queer paranormal horror novel in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing the complex real-life terror inherent in grief and mental illness After the tragic death of their father and surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, 18-year-old Ellis moves with their mother to the small town of Black Stone, seeking a simpler life and some […]
Kern Carter is the author of five novels, including Beauty Scars, Boys And Girls Screaming and And Then There Was Us. In addition to his writing, Kern writes and produces film and also teaches professional writing at a local college. He is committed to supporting emerging writers and helping them find their voice. He lives in […]
A mother’s death forces a teen girl to reevaluate their tumultuous relationship in this powerful coming-of-age novel for teens. For fans of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. After years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother, fourteen-year-old Coi moved in with her father, and together they created a peaceful life. But now, […]
Curtis Campbell is a writer, playwright and director. Curtis released his debut novel, Dragging Mason County, to critical acclaim in 2023. Recent nominations include the Forest of Reading White Pine Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. He is currently the Ontario Arts Council Playwright In Residence at Tarragon Theatre, as […]
Elizabeth Ruth is the author of the novels Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke, and Ten Good Seconds of Silence, as well as a plain language novella for adult literacy learners, Love You to Death. Her work has been recognized by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the City of Toronto Book Award, and more. CBC named her “One of the Ten Canadian Women […]
Andrea Curtis’s children’s non-fiction titles include A Forest in the City, City of Water, City Streets are for People and City of Neighbors in the ThinkCities series. She has also written the young adult novel Big Water. Andrea lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario, where she grows veggies, explores the ravines and spends as […]
Rosena Fung is an illustrator, educator and comic artist. Her debut graphic novel, Living With Viola, was named a best of the year by the New York Public Library, School Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews, and nominated for the Silver Birch Award, the Jean Little First-Novel Award, and the Garden State Teen Book Award. In […]
Qin Leng is a designer and illustrator of books for young people, including Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson. She has received numerous awards for her animated short films and artwork. Qin Leng lives in Toronto with her family.
K.J. Aiello is a mentally ill, award-winning writer based in Toronto, ON. Their work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, The Walrus and This Magazine. They are still waiting for their very own dragon. Sadly, this has not happened, so their cats will have to suffice.
Natasha Ramoutar is a writer of Indo-Guyanese descent from Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, Bittersweet, published in 2020 by Mawenzi House, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She was the editor of FEEL WAYS, an anthology of Scarborough literature. She is a senior editor with Augur Magazine and serves on the editorial board at Wolsak & […]
Farzana Doctor is a Tkaronto-based author, activist and psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels, a poetry collection, and a self-care workbook for helpers and activists. Doctor received the prestigious Freedom to Read Award in 2023, and in 2020, Seven was chosen as an Amnesty International Book Club’s Reader’s Choice Pick.
