Calgarian Kelly Kaur makes her fiction debut with an epistolary novel, a challenging form, which intersects through letters the lives of five women in mid-1980s Calgary and Singapore. The [...]
Toxic masculinity—to some a slur; to others a summation of male character—is the Achilles heel that Calgary’s Paul Zits aims to remediate in his fourth poetry collection. The book’s title, which [...]
It Should be Easy to Fix is Bonnie Robichaud’s memoir about the sexual harassment she endured and her 11-year fight that led to the 1987 landmark Supreme Court of Canada case that recognized [...]
Candas Jane Dorsey is a well-established author and activist in Alberta who’s made valuable contributions to 2SLBGTQIA+ literature. In this young adult novel, she tells the story of Corey Cobb, a [...]
The Métis diaspora, we are a braided river channel, a herd of bison on our way to the grasslands up the way, to our relations,” writes Michelle Porter in Scratching River, a literary memoir that [...]
War. Pandemic. Environmental collapse. How is a poet supposed to make beauty out of all the ugliness? Edmonton poet Jason Purcell, in their debut poetry collection, Swollening, has found an [...]
