Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive by Alison Gadsby
Gadsby has become a diviner of sorts, and her stories a clarion call.
Fiction
Throwback: Silence is Full of Sound by Bianca Lakoseljac
In Bianca Lakoseljac’s second collection of poetry, she explores silence through her examination of art, a craft she has deep respect for, through to the land of her ancestors and the voices of the past, through nature and the colourful laughter of her descendants, her grandchildren, as they discover the world around them.
Throwback: Excerpts from a Burned Letter by Joelle Barron
Within a faith tradition that sees only two genders, and from the purview of a small northern community, what can a young person know about themselves and their possibilities?
Stan On Guard: A Two-Part Invention by K.R. Wilson
Stan on Guard: A Two-Part Invention by K.R. Wilson is the anticipated sequel to the Leacock nominated Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia.
Throwback: you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erin Mouré
Whose love story is this? In English, `you’ is many-gendered, can denote singularity, plurality, a finger-pointed other, a reflective self.
Throwback: After We Drowned by Jill Yonit Goldberg
Covering the same sort of stark wasteland, both economic and emotional, Goldberg subverts expectations time and again by delineating a tangible humanity in the lost souls she describes.
Best Canadian Stories 2026 selected by Zsuzsi Gartner
If you feel like you missed out on a lot of good short fiction in the last twelve months, or want to take your first step into short fiction (join us! Short fiction is great!), then I highly recommend picking up Best Canadian Stories 2026, and diving in.
The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery
The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery touches upon mothering, sexual identity, family dynamics and voice.
Morgan’s Castle by Jan Hilliard
Less consciously literary and considerably more pulpy than Laurence, the Jan Hilliard novel Morgan’s Castle (written by Nova Scotia-born Torontonian Hilda Kay Grant), suggests an alternative CanLit tradition to me—our dime store authors.
Ten Crows for a Time of Joyous Bliss by Vernon Oickle
Now he is just days from graduation, and things are once again going off-kilter. Alex has noticed an increase in patients coming into the hospital who are victims of violent episodes.
The Winter Witch by Jennifer Chevalier
Sisters Marthe and Élisabeth find themselves on a ship to New France, after scandal embroiled Élisabeth in their village.
Seven Heavens Away by Ashraf Zaghal
The novel is set in 2015-2016, a time when Israeli forces began restricting access to Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. Aziz, a young man at odds with his father, witnesses, alongside his friend Mustafa, the murder of their friend Hassan at the hands of an Israeli soldier.
Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies by Lindsay Wong
Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies is a lot.
Honeydew by Ben Zalkind
In Honeydew, Ben Zalkind’s new novel, tech billionaire Moses Honeydew is intent on tunnelling into the core of the earth. I suspect readers will either be automatically sold on the book after hearing this, or put off.
