A 2017 finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-fiction, Where It Hurts is a highly charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional ...

A haunting, poetic story about four characters struggling to find grace and humanity, Paradise explores trauma, mental illness, addiction, and the lengths we’ll go for personal freedom. To learn more ...

Henry Beissel is an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and editor with more than 30 publications to his credit, including 20 volumes of poetry. His work has been translated into more ...

This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family, and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic ...

Nicole Markotić is a novelist, critic, and poet. Her books include: Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot, Bent at the Spine, and Whelmed. She is professor of English Literature, Creative Writing, and Canadian ...

George Elliott Clarke is a Toronto-based poet, novelist, librettist, playwright, and scholar. He has won regional, national, and international awards. Currently Parliamentary Poet Laureate, he is also ...

Margaret Atwood compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many strange prehistoric life forms. The Burgess Shale is ...

Melanie Murray traces the footsteps of Jean Armour and Robert Burns through the village of Mauchline, where they met and married, to their final home in Dumfries, attempting to discover the woman who ...

Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these ...

These essays begin an examination of some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last four decades, following the postcolonial wave of immigration of the 1960s and ’70s. Employing ...