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Non-FictionMemoir honours mother’s complexity, journey from Jamaica to England to Saskatchewan
“I hope for readers to connect and relate to my mom, myself, and our lived experiences as described in the book,” Jennifer Wallace says of Miss G and Me: A daughter’s memoir of her mother in a collection of anecdotes, journals, poetry, and personal essays – her book about her mother, Ruth Williamson MacLeod. -
Young Adult/ChildrenInspired by children and child-like wonder, nature gets reimagined as creative force
In the colourful and poetic picture book Nature Is an Artist, by author Jennifer Lavallee and illustrator Natalia Colombo, readers can follow along as Nature shows a group of children how beautiful and artistic the natural world is. -
Fiction50 years of canoe-loving life mined for stories of romance, mystery, and dining with a duck
Ric Driediger found his life’s work and his life’s passion on a canoe trip in 1972. He had just graduated from high school and now he knew one thing for sure – he wanted canoeing to play a large part in his life. -
FictionWriter chronicles his life’s downward spiral in tale examining commitment, friendship
“The opening pages came to me in a waking dream one morning. I arose and wrote about five pages, trying to get stuff down without thinking about it very much,” says Vancouver-based author Paul Headrick about Losing Shepherd, his riveting new novel about relationships, the writing life, and betrayal. -
FictionHistorical conditions clash with the present in Mennonite-driven graphic short stories
The Mennonite influence in Manitoba runs deep, and that’s reflected in Shelterbelts by illustrator and cartoonist Jonathan Dyck. -
FictionLeslie Greentree returns with well-crafted takes on politics, abortion, loneliness, and disaster
“I love short stories. I love reading them, I love writing them. I love that short fiction can focus on a moment, a single situation, or a brief period of time in a character’s life,” says Leslie Greentree about her return to the short form with her new story collection, Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For. Her writing career has spanned poetry, theatre, and non-fiction, as well as fiction – she even has a novel in the works – but the short story fulfills a special purpose. -
FictionAction-packed story revolves around identity theft, and one man’s worst day ever
Everyone has bad days. However, John Hancock, the protagonist of Stealing John Hancock by H&A Christensen, has had the worst day of all time. -
FictionBlack queer joy and ‘deliberately hidden’ history brought to life in playful, poetic style
Suzette Mayr’s latest novel, The Sleeping Car Porter, began with a challenge posed by one of her former writing teachers, the poet Fred Wah – he suggested she write about train porters. “I didn’t know what he was talking about, and I didn’t know what history he was referring to,” she says. -
FictionNovel set in Nigeria, Canada highlights untold stories of transnational migration
Every year, many Africans leave behind strong ties forged since birth to explore new connections in Canada. Some realize their dreams of stability and prosperity; others fail and yield to despair. Saskatoon-based Nigerian writer Michael Afenfia is familiar with the challenges many immigrants deal with in North America, having emigrated from Nigeria to Canada in 2019. His latest and sixth novel, Leave My Bones in Saskatoon, is about Africans pursuing the Canadian dream. -
PoetryCollaboration between photos and poems illuminate search for meaning, magic
Poems and photographs play off of each other to shed light on human existence in Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies: 49 Poems & 18 Photographs by long-time friends Jan Zwicky and Robert Moody.
