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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.

Congratulations to the 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards Finalists!

We’re thrilled to see the fantastic finalists of the 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards,
including these books from independent Canadian literary publishers.

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.

The cover of William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal

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

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

By (author): Dawn Dumont

The hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour….

Trees

By (author): Lucy Hemphill

Illustrated by: Michael Joyal

In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelati….

Zegaajimo

Edited by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

You never know what’s hunting you, while you’re hunting it…Eleven of the deadliest writers from across Turtle Isla….

Home Waltz

By (author): G.A. Grisenthwaite

In 1973, fifteen-year old Qʷóqʷésk?i?, or “Squito” Bob, is a mixed-blood N?e?kepmx boy trying to find his place in a….

Gitwaa?tk

By (author): Crystal AJ Smith

Gitwaa?tk is the story of a young Indigenous woman who loses her sister to the highway of tears and who embarks on a jou….

Legacy

By (author): Waubgeshig Rice

“Bold, envisioned storytelling. A hands down pleasure to read.” ?Richard Wagamese In the winter of 1989, Eva Gibson is ….

Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a

By (author): Katłıà

A vexatious shapeshifter walks among humans. Shadowy beasts skulk at the edges of the woods. A ghostly apparition ha….

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)

By (author): Carol Rose GoldenEagle

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite ….

Dreyd

By (author): Daniel Heath Justice

Edited by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

The forces of Eromar ravage the Everland, and the skies are filled with the smoke and ashes of the burning woods. Those ….

A Gentle Habit

By (author): Cherie Dimaline

Edited by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

The inspiration for the collection comes from American Poet Charles Bukowski who wrote “In between the punctuating agoni….

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….

This House Is Not a Home

By (author): Katłıà

Read by: Brianne Tucker

After a hunting trip one fall, a family in the far reaches of so-called Canada’s north return to nothing but an em….
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