The Drowned Man’s Daughter
Rich, dark, intense, sneaky, secretly literary
Candas Jane Dorsey
The Story of My Life Ongoing
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 Party is Here
Short fiction has limits. Years ago a colleague summed it up fairly reasonably as: “Short stories ask questions. Novels provide answers.” It doesn’t bother me that a story can’t be a complete [...]
Burning the Night
A new Glen Huser book is always welcome, whatever its subject. Huser is one of the steady, quiet lights of Alberta’s writing world—an excellent author who is often underappreciated, which I hope [...]
Green Glass Ghosts
Leaving home for the first time is already fraught for a teenager. But for the non-binary narrator of Green Glass Ghosts, a young queer person who has fled Calgary for the supposedly more [...]
The Adventures of Isabel
The Adventures of Isabel begins with a bleak scene. Broke, depressed and grown listless after being laid off from her job as a social worker, a queer protagonist and narrator is asked to [...]
Ice and Other Stories
Ice and Other Stories is an anthology put out by the UK house PS Publishing, celebrating the career of one of Canada’s greatest science fiction innovators, Candas Jane Dorsey. The release of the [...]
He Wrote, She Wrote
Learning to write by gender.