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December Spotlight on Excerpts: Read About the Maple Leaf from Symbols of Canada

Symbols of Canada, edited by Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright (Between the Lines Books), delves into the titular symbols, whether they're as storied as Indigenous carvings or as ...

Kicking off a December Spotlight on Excerpts: Read Three Poems from Adrian De Leon's Rouge

Whether you're looking for a creative and inspiring holiday gift, or just need a moment to yourself during the craziness of December, we've got you covered with our month-long spotlight on excerpts!Each ...

Read an Excerpt from Want by Barbara Langhorst, A Sharp, Funny Family Story

In Barbara Langhorst's Want (Palimpsest Press), Delphine's life is happy and calm. She and her husband, Hugo, live in peace on a small hobby farm in the Prairies, studiously oblivious to contemporary ...

Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Anita Kushwaha's Side by Side, a Story of Sibling Love and Loss

In Anita Kushwaha's Side by Side (Inanna Publications), Kavita Gupta is facing the unimaginable. When her brother disappears, she drops everything to find him -- but 10 days later, she's told he's ...

Read an Excerpt from The Children's War by Short Fiction Star C.P. Boyko

Power can be a strange, amorphous thing, tilting the dynamics between people in unexpected ways. Acclaimed short fiction author C. P. Boyko mines those strange dynamics in his arresting new collection, The ...

Read Excerpt from Marianne Micros's Eye, a Collection Where Magic Won't Stay Buried

Travelling from modern day Europe and North American to ancient Greece, the stories in Marianne Micros's collection Eye (Guernica Editions) are steeped in myth and magic. Her characters deal with changelings ...

Read an Exclusive Excerpt from A Skeletal Wand by Ruth Roach Pierson

Governor General's Literary Award nominated poet Ruth Roach Pierson's newest collection,  A Skeletal Wand (Palimpsest Press), is a gorgeous book, full of poems that are uneasy and arresting, sketched ...

Read an Excerpt from David Goudreault's Raw, Powerful, Darkly Funny Mama's Boy

Content warning: suicide, self-harmIn its original French edition, Mama's Boy (Book*hug) by David Goudreault (translated by JC Sutcliffe) was a smash hit - a bestseller, winner of the 2016 Grand Prix ...

Read an Excerpt from Richard Denniss' Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World

Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World by prominent Australian economist Richard Denniss (Between the Lines) interrogates the darkness behind the widely hated word in its title. ...

Find Your New NYE Traditions in This Excerpt from JonArno Lawson's But It's So Silly: A Cross-cultural Collage of Nonsense, Play and Poetry

Just as New Year's Eve approaches, JonArno Lawson has come to our research with ideas for what sounds like some extremely fun NYE traditions. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book But It's So Silly: ...