The All + Flesh, by Brandi Bird
Brandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands.
First Book
You Break It You Buy It By Lynn Tait
You Break It, You Buy It features poems about disconnection, misconnections: the loss of friendships and identity, our voice, our purpose.
Lore Isle by Jiin Kim
A middle-grade fantasy that follows a young boy into a magical land of mummers, sprites, fairies, and murderous pitcher plants in an attempt to save his home — and his family.
Closer By Sea by Perry Chafe
A coming-of-age debut novel about the mysterious disappearance of a young girl and the fragility of childhood bonds, set against the backdrop of a small island community adapting to an ever-changing landscape.
Archipelago by Laila Malik
The islands of an archipelago are isolated above sea level but attached underwater; connected yet separate. archipelago, the debut poetry collection from Laila Malik, traces fragments of family, becoming and unbecoming against the shifting shorelines of loss, multigenerational migration, and (un)belonging.
Stealing John Hancock by H&A Christensen
H&A Christensen have crafted an unforgettable story of stolen identities, where you can trust no one. Complications unfold so rapidly and are put to rest so smoothly that you won’t ever want this book to end. I’m just hoping there will be a sequel.
-Michelle Berry, author of the thriller Everything Turns Away
Cradle and Spoon: Poems by Kate Spencer
With, at times, spiraling self-awareness, Spencer writes herself into a new mode: the post-confessional.
Wolf Sonnets by R.P. LaRose
In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose undoes the sonnet’s classical constraints, retooling the form for current political circumstances.
Full Moon of Afraid and Craving by Melanie Power
From a darkly humorous perspective, this book charts a young person’s navigation of narrow definitions of faith, femininity, and family.
This is the House that Luke Built by Violet Browne
This Is the House That Luke Built deftly explores existential questions about what it means to be alive.
The Broken Places by Frances Peck
Frances Peck’s debut novel examines the unpredictable ways in which disaster can shake up lives and test personal resilience.
We Have Never Lived On Earth: Stories by Kasia Van Schaik
Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa.
Full Fadom Five by David C.C. Bourgeois
In Full Fadom Five the past is always present, and the characters always at the mercy of their legacies: those they carry forward, and those they try to leave behind.
We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who deserves what, and who gets the power to decide.
Sleepers and Ties by Gail Kirkpatrick
Grieving Museum curator Margaret returns to her childhood home to leave behind her sister Shirley’s ashes and attend the final reading of her will. Unbeknownst to Margaret, Shirley has left her eight million dollars and a letter asking Margaret to return to its former glory an abandoned railway line–a fanciful notion, everyone tells her, with no real legal binding.