2023 Bronwen Wallace Award winner, PhD candidate, and U.S. Army veteran Zak Jones’ FANCY GAP, a debut novel set in the eponymous mountain region connecting North Carolina to Virginia, following a troubled family—the less-than-honorably discharged Corporal Dalton Fuquay and his teen brother Messiah, whom Dalton must save from their dangerous grandmother and the self-radicalized, born-again muster of acolytes she commands—being torn apart by mental and physical illness, opioid addiction, and poverty
Read MoreUS English rights to Conor Kerr's PRAIRIE EDGE, in which Métis kin, one trapped by circumstance in a semi-criminal rut and the other disillusioned with performative activist culture, hatch on a dangerous yet bold political mission—freeing a herd of bison onto the sprawling concrete of downtown Edmonton—and then must deal with the fateful and fatal consequences that follow…
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