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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.

A photo of poet Smokii Sumac, with an inset photo of his poetry collection Born Sacred. He is an Indigenous person wearing a watermelon slice t-shirt, a keffiyeh over one shoulder, and a bright floral scarf over the other shoulder, with a beaded floral bracelet on.

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Tributaries: Smokii Sumac + Born Sacred

The cover of All Wrong Horses on Fire That Go Away in the Rain

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Two Poems: All Wrong Horses on Fire That Go Away in the Rain

A photo of Tawahum Bige, captioned "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." Tawahum is a Two-Spirit Dene person with a medium skin tone, hair shaved into a short mohawk style, wearing a scarf and sleeveless shirt. They are on a stage, lit by a projector so that the colours and light wash over their face. Their collection Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells is inset in the bottom right corner of the image.

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Tributaries: Tawahum Bige + Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells Part One: Scraping Lungs Like Hide

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

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….

Through Different Eyes

By (author): Karen Charleson

Everyone knows everyone's business in the small fishing community of Kitsum. So when young Brenda Joe fears she might be….

Magodiz

By (author): Gabe Calderon

Magodiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or r….

Gitwaa?tk

By (author): Crystal AJ Smith

Gitwaa?tk by Crystal AJ Smith is the story of a young Indigenous woman who loses her Sister-Cousin to the highway of tea….

All the Quiet Places

By (author): Brian Thomas Isaac

Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionLonglisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeA National ….

Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By (author): Chelsea Vowel

Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is….

The Return of the Nish

By (author): Tyson Stewart

Gerry Smith grew up in a small town about fifty-five kilometres from Temagami, the hometown of his long-absent father, D….

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….

Lightfinder

By (author): Aaron Paquette

Lightfinder is a YA fantasy novel about Aisling, a young Cree woman who sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (gra….

Avenue of Champions

By (author): Conor Kerr

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and s….

Wake The Stone Man

By (author): Carol McDougall

Set in a small northern town, under the mythical shadow of the Sleeping Giant, Wake the Stone Man follows the compli….

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….

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