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Writer’s Block: Coltrane Seesequasis

Fantasy writer Coltrane Seesequasis whose debut YA fantasy novel Secrets of Stone (Kegedonce Press) comes out this September joins us to talk about little stand-out moments that led to writing, how writing is like building, and his four-part YA fantasy series A Wolf in the Sun.

The cover of the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Glass Lodge by John Brady McDonald. A medicine wheel is in dripping watercolour paint against a black background.

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Poetry in Motion: John Brady McDonald + The Glass Lodge

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Excerpted: Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott

A photo of writer Richard Van Camp. He is a Tlicho Dene man with short, dark hair and glasses, and a big smile. He wears a beautiful vest made of hide with beaded flowers on it and stands outside, with trees in the background.

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Writer’s Block: Richard Van Camp

Congratulations to
the 2024 Indigenous
Voices Awards Finalists!

We’re thrilled to see the fantastic finalists of the 2024 Indigenous Voices Awards,
including these two books by Caleigh Crow and Cara-Lyn Morgan.

Read Cliff Cardinal’s Award-Winning Play

Congratulations to Cliff Cardinal, who is a GG winner for Drama and a 2023 Trillium Award finalist for his groundbreaking play, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling.

William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling

By (author): Cliff Cardinal

The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please a….
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Reads for Truth and Reconciliation

A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant

Edited by: Janice Gould

A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and ac….

Grey Eyes

By (author): Frank Christopher Busch

Winner of the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature! In a world without time and s….

Humane

By (author): Anna Marie Sewell

”In Humane, Anna Marie Sewell’s brings an Indigenous and poetic sensibility to the crime novel, infusing it with ima….

Rose’s Run

By (author): Dawn Dumont

Dahlia Ingram was six-feet-two inches tall with legs that came up to Rose Okanese’s bicep and every inch of those long l….

Kynship

By (author): Daniel Heath Justice

Edited by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

The Everland, home of the Eld-Folk since time immemorial, a deep green world of ancient mystery and sacred shadow. A tho….

Tales for Late Night Bonfires

By (author): G.A. Grisenthwaite

Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fi….

13 Lives

By (author): Michael Pawlowski

With stories that chronicle the abused, the homeless, the suicidal, those seeking a world away from the reserve, and tho….

Wrist

By (author): Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excava….

Wyrwood

By (author): Daniel Heath Justice

Edited by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

The Sevenfold Council stands firm against Dreydmaster Vald’s treaty terms–they will not surrender the Everland. Their w….

Red Rooms

By (author): Cherie Dimaline

Naomi, an Indigenous chambermaid in a busy downtown hotel, amuses herself by imagining the past, present and future live….

Winter Child

By (author): Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau

Translated by: Susan Ouriou, Christelle Morelli

A visceral, luminous novel about a Métis woman tracing the life and death of her son.One late September day, amid the y….

Winter Child

By (author): Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau

Translated by: Susan Ouriou, Christelle Morelli

A visceral, luminous novel about a Métis woman tracing the life and death of her son. One late September day, amid the….
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