Thinking From Black: A Lexicon by the Practicing Refusal Collective

Thinking From Black is an animated collection that illuminates, interrogates, and grabs hold of what Blackness means from as many angles as humanity, history, and artistry allow. Initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, whose members span the US, Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, and Africa, this fierce book is as much about creativity as it is about the political realities and ethical practices of being Black at a time when anti-Black violence is resurging in terrifying ways. A reference book, a glossary, and an inventive vocabulary that …

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Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #43 — Dead Writers Takeover Issue!

Dead Writers is a collaborative fiction project of novella-length stories by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum. In this issue of Why I Wrote this Book, each author tells us why they wrote their pieces!

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May’s “Mystery Date with a Book” Giveaway!

What is the TMR “Win a Blind Date With a Book” giveaway? How can one one join? First of all, TMR, in collaboration with some of Canada’s finest publishers, is giving away one current fiction title per month in 2024.

This Will Only Take a Minute: 100 Canadian Flashes by Bruce Meyer and Michael Mirolla (Editors)

In This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, Guernica Editions features short short stories by Canadian writers from six words to 500 words in length, short stories from across the entire spectrum of Canadian writing. and anything from stark realism to speculative fiction.