Indigenous AuthorsTag

An Important Chair Cares for Two Special People in a Poignant New Picture Book From Rebecca Thomas

Inspired by her own upbringing, and particularly by a profound love for her grandfather, Rebecca Thomas has distilled the poignant details of this relationship into a moving picture book that captures ...

A Young Wolf Faces His Enemies and His Destiny in Coltrane Seesequasis' Thrilling Debut

Feeling a profound sense of inspiration to write stories since high school, Coltrane Seesequasis has arrived with his debut work, Secrets of Stone (Kegedonce Press). It's a fascinating and fully immersive ...

Read an Excerpt from Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

Reconnection and rediscovery are at the heart of the newly translated novel by Innu author, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, and her poetry and essays have already left an imprint on the literary world in the ...

Alicia Elliott Wins the 2024 Amazon First Novel Award

Last night at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto, Alicia Elliott won the forty-eighth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award. The bestselling essayist won for And Then She Fell (Doubleday Canada), ...

Playwright Jeff D'Hondt On Facing the Truth About a Life Quietly Falling Apart, and Learning How to Heal

After being revived from a coma, Megan lives with traumatic injuries that spur her on to violence. Her physician seeks outside help, finding an Indigenous clinician to treat Megan and to seek innovative ...

Dawn Sii-yaa-ilth-supt Smith Shares Her Experiences and the Truth About Residential Schools in a New Children's Book

When Nuu-chah-nulth author Dawn Sii-yaa-ilth-supt Smith was approached by publishers to write a children's book about truth and reconciliation, she jumped at the opportunity to inform growing minds ...

Read an Excerpt from Emma Metallic's Beautiful, Snowy Debut, Nipugtug, Written in Both Mi’gmaw & English

A meditative snowshoe through the forest might be just what we all need in the busy holiday season. While not many of us have the chance to don snowshoes and absorb the peace of a snowy wood, after reading Mi’gmaw ...

6 Books That Impacted Adriana Chartrand, Author of the Acclaimed Debut An Ordinary Violence

Try as she might, nothing is quite right in Dawn's life. A young Indigenous woman eager to leave a city full of bad memories, she's moved to a new place to start over, but she's haunted by messages from ...

Excerpt: Joe Pete, the Final Book from Ian McCulloch, a Staple of the Northern Writing Community

The star of Ian McCulloch's final novel, Joe Pete (Latitude 46 Publishing) is Alison, an eleven-year-old girl better known as the titular Joe Pete. Devastated by the death of her father Sandy, a descendant ...

Cara-Lyn Morgan Navigates the Trauma of Abuse While Building a Better Future for Her Child in Her Fiery New Collection

When Cara-Lyn Morgan courageously disclosed generations of abuse that had been hidden and sheltered in her family, she found herself estranged from people who should have protected her. It wasn't until ...