Product Description: “Considering the number of popular and prize-winning writers who have a Journey Prize as part of their resume, it’s no exaggeration to suggest that this volume is the future of Canadian writing. . . . And the future seems bright indeed...read more

Product Description: In 1967, then-unknown writers David Godfrey and Dennis Lee founded a small press they grandly named “The House of Anansi,” after an African trickster spider-god. Their goal was to publish groundbreaking new Canadian work in three core genres: literary fiction, poetry, and topical nonfiction...read more

Fatherless teen Guy Boucher finds himself at the center of an ugly rumor involving a popular girl, in a story told from the viewpoints of his overbearing uncle Isadore, the Shakespeare-loving Pam, a draft-dodging English teacher, and a pair of emotional golden boys. Reprint.

Product Description: Strange Heaven is tearfully hilarious, as funny and appalling as reality. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has come to Halifax from industrial Cape Breton, had her baby, and given it up for adoption. Transferred to the psych ward of the children's hospital, she's incarcerated with five seriously disturbed teenagers and a flock of wan children...read more