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Death Drop is a short high-interest contemporary novel and one of several Melanie Jackson has written with amusement park themes. Go to full post …read more

David Starr’s historical YA novel, The Nor’wester, follows Simon Fraser’s journey through the eyes of a Scottish lad. Go to full post …read more

Asian community champion, editor, and literary leader Jim Wong-Chu passed away this weekGo to full post …read more

A Feed Dog Book aims to fill gaps in the spectrum of Canadian poetry with new surrealist works.Go to full post …read more

Travel vicariously through these photography books highlighting the beauty, majesty and awe-inspiring landscapes found in western Canada’s Rocky MountainsGo to full post …read more

In August 1989, Jane Rule—novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized “public lesbian” in North America—summed up the first eight years of her correspondence with Rick Bébout, a noted gay activist and publisher in Toronto: “It seems to me that what Go to full post …read more

A selection of recent works by Indigenous writers and forthcoming Indigenous books in celebration of National Aboriginal DayGo to full post …read more

In honour of Pride Month in June, Robin Stevenson talks about her award-winning book, Pride: Celebrating Diversity & CommunityGo to full post …read more

The jury agreed that Bearskin Diary is an important book telling the story of one of thousands of Aboriginal children taken from their families by provincial governments during the “Sixties Scoop”.Go to full post …read more

After seeing a breathtaking watercolour of salmon clumped together into a teeming mass, with mouths that could be gasping for air or just as easily screaming in agony, I knew Katie and I would come up with something wonderful for the cover of Bad Endings.Go to full post …read more

Writers’ Trust of Canada announced Kai Cheng Thom winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.Go to full post …read more

Was it wild parties and rough sex, the blood transfusions after childbirth and following a horrific car accident, or perhaps some other event during the freewheeling 60s and 70s that infected Elizabeth with hep C? Go to full post …read more