My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling
An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.
An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.
Brisk, observational, and darkly comic, Unrest is both a road trip story and a touching eulogy on life, death, and what we leave behind.
Four reviews of new picture books for children from Maine’s Islandport Press.
Though they started from Sheryda Warrener’s impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up becoming more expansive meditations on seeing and vision.
An interview with author Maleea Acker, author of three books, two poetry and one non-fiction.
Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death.
My Indian Summer, is a coming-of-age book, an account that sounds based in truth, and tells of a season that proved to be a turning point in a young man’s life. The year is 1979, the last days of August, turning into September – for many, one of the loveliest times of the year.
This excerpt is taken from the forthcoming book by Rick Revelle, The Elk Whistle Warrior Society. This action and adventure story takes place in the 1960s. Revelle highlights the skills required to be part of the Elk Whistle Warrior Society, an organization that was founded 650 years ago by Anishinaabe and Cree teenagers.
Three reviews of books written by Indigenous authors that Alison Manley (TMR’s Associate Editor) read in late 2022.
Miramichi Flash, a literary column at The Miramichi Reader out of New Brunswick, Canada, showcases four stellar #flashfiction in its September Issue, today. “The Only Hope of The Jews” by Paul Beckman; “Split” by Francine Witte; “Fat Man” by Andrew Stancek; and “In Dreams We Meet At The Opera” by Damhnait Monaghan. Enjoy!
Our Voice of Fire chronicles Morin’s journey to overcome enormous adversity and find her purpose, and her power, through journalism. This compelling, honest book is full of self-compassion and the purifying fire of a pursuit for justice.
Salimah Valiani’s 29 Leads to Love expands on and extends the focus of her 2009 collection, Letter Out: Letter In, with the Sufi notion of love as a kind of attention which unifies.
Gear up for laughter in the hereafter as Socrates sets out to assassinate every soul who can remember the mortal world.
Season 2, Episode 18: Interview with Heather and Aren of Black Box Publishing House and Two Heritage House Author Self-Promos.
In Surface Tension, poetry is liquefied. Flowing away from meaning, letters and words gather and pool into puddles of poetry; street signs and logos reflected in the oily sheen of polluted gutters of rainwater.