Indigiqueer Two-Spirit Oji-Cree poet, performer, writer and winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English, jaye simpson’s “a body more tolerable,” a powerful and vulnerable poetry collection full of mythos, fairy tales, allusion and magic, focusing on redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction and recreation, in ways that reject perception…
Read MoreTheodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled member Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians)'s THE EL, a semi-autobiographical novel that takes place on a single day in 1979 Chicago as a group of teenage Royals trek across the city to attend a gathering of fellow gang members in a story that's pitched as half TOMMY ORANGE, half THE WARRIORS, entirely a love letter to a group of friends trying to make their way in a city (and a country) that doesn't want them…
Read MoreLeméac Éditeur has acquired French in North America rights to Michael Crummey’s THE ADVERSARY in an exclusive submission…
Read MoreLes Éditions du Boréal has acquired French in North America rights to Cherie Dimaline’s FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS in an exclusive submission…
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…
Read MoreScotiabank Giller and Writers' Trust Prize finalist Timothy Taylor's THE RISE AND FALL OF MAGIC WOLF, about a Canadian chef who meets a colleague from Quebec while training in Paris who later comes to work for the chef at his first restaurant in Vancouver; over the next few years, his restaurant empire booms before beginning to crumble under the weight of sexual assault allegations and accusations the chef stole his most profitable recipes…
Read MoreAward-winning author of Caught Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen’s co-authored memoir about the latter’s four-year incarceration from the age of 13 at the Whitbourne School for Boys in St. John’s in the 1970s, where he was subjected to long bouts of solitary confinement and brutal beatings, and how he managed to find love on the other side, turn his life around and seek justice for those lost years with the help of his daughter, whose father’s experiences inspired her career in law…
Read MoreAward-winning Métis writer, Amber Boyd’s memoir, BLOOD, BANNOCK, AND BEADS, recounts a 24-year vibrant journey of reclaiming her identity after discovering that her grandfather hid his; her path back to the Métis community includes bear encounters, traditional medicines, bead works, a birch bark canoe, and lessons with her two children…
Read MoreToronto Star crime reporter Jennifer Pagliaro’s GIRLS, INTERRUPTED, a true crime narrative examining the recent rash of teen violence, specifically focusing on the alleged swarming attack of Ken Lee, who was experiencing homelessness, at the hands of eight teenage girls, taking readers from the night of the murder to the girls’ arrest and eventual trial, and interrogating how we reconcile a brutal murder with a broken youth justice system…
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