2021 Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Star Eddy Boudel Tan’s THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT, an atmospheric upmarket page-turner about a family processing a mysterious loss from their past, exploring how the insecurities of Asian immigrants are exploited in their isolated town, how the expectations placed on the second generation are chafed against, and how a current of rage simmers beneath the composed veneers of both…

Award-winning and internationally-published author, Laurie Petrou, and award-winning playwright and television writer, Kate Fodor's ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") debut middle grade novel, THE REHEARSAL CLUB, a lighthearted middle-grade mystery inspired by New York City’s historic boarding house for aspiring actresses, as 12-year-old Pal and her newly-formed pack of friends uncover a decades-old mystery that stretches across a dual timeline between present day and the 1950s…

Author of the collections GREENER PASTURES and THE INCONSOLABLES Michael Wehunt’s THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT, a debut horror novel pitched as SCREAM meets HEREDITARY about a cult film shrouded in urban legend, a fan group’s viral post on the movie that resulted in the gruesome death of a teenager, and a disgraced single mother’s attempts to make amends and rebuild her life a decade later, until a mysterious VHS tape in her mailbox hints at a sequel that threatens everything…

Freelance journalist, editor, essayist and science communicator, Lori Fox’s THIS BOOK IS A KNIFE, a collection of creative essays critiquing Capitalism, the dangers of climate change, and, with hope and tangible solutions, presents ways in which we might be able to radically reimagine our world before it’s too late…

Award-winning author and playwright, best known for his Marty Chan Mystery Series, Marty Chan’s DETENTION, a humorous middle grade mystery novel featuring an intrepid school reporter, Izzy, as she launches a podcast series investigating the possible wrongful conviction and detention sentence of a classmate; pitched as a technologically updated Harriet the Spy meets the mockumentary ‘American Vandal…’

Author of the award-winning bestselling memoir and 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction THEY SAID THIS WOULD BE FUN, Eternity Martis’s debut novel WHITE LIES, a darkly humourous satire-drama inspired by a culture of white women behaving badly (and the patriarchal influences that lets them) and the dark and messy side of female friendships…

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…

Theodore 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…

Leméac Éditeur has acquired French in North America rights to Michael Crummey’s THE ADVERSARY in an exclusive submission…