A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died.Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood ...

Longlisted for the 2024 Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In PoetryFinalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsIn these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst th...

A 2022 Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist • A CBC Books and Quill & Quire Anticipated Fall Book • A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Title • A 49th Shelf Book of the Year 2021Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives.A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly cha...

A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died.Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood ...

Longlisted for the 2024 Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In PoetryFinalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsIn these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst th...

Kate Cayley’s is a mind both studious and curious, deeply attuned to the question “what if?” What if Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson met in the afterlife? What if a respected physician suddenly shrank to the size of a pea? What if the blind twins in a Victorian photograph could speak to us? What if we found another Earth orbiting another sun? Cayley draws on her experience as a playwright to create vividly engaging voices and characters ranging from the famous to the infamous to the all-but...

From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar.In Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence of the people who have handled them. Myths and legends are interwoven with daily life. Visionaries, mystics, charlatans, artists, and the dead speak to us like chatty neighbours. An imaginary library catalogues missing people. Reading becomes a way...

From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar.In Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence of the people who have handled them. Myths and legends are interwoven with daily life. Visionaries, mystics, charlatans, artists, and the dead speak to us like chatty neighbours. An imaginary library catalogues missing people. Reading becomes a way...

Kate Cayley’s is a mind both studious and curious, deeply attuned to the question “what if?” What if Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson met in the afterlife? What if a respected physician suddenly shrank to the size of a pea? What if the blind twins in a Victorian photograph could speak to us? What if we found another Earth orbiting another sun? Cayley draws on her experience as a playwright to create vividly engaging voices and characters ranging from the famous to the infamous to the all-but...

A CBC BOOKS AND QUILL & QUIRE ANTICIPATED FALL BOOKA LAMBDA LITERARY MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ TITLEA 49TH SHELF BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives.A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighbo...

The celebrated annual fiction collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.Like the O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories series, The Journey Prize Stories is one of the most celebrated annual literary anthologies in North America. But what makes it unique is...

Dive into the captivating realm of 'Lost Masterpieces of Mystery & Adventure – 6 Classic Independent Woman Tales,' where six exceptional stories blend the high stakes of mystery with the thrill of adventure, all under the empowering gaze of independent women protagonists. This anthology traverses a fascinating array of literary styles, from suspenseful narratives to adventure-driven plots, highlighting the dynamic versatility with which these tales challenge and redefine gender norms of th...