Books for Young People

Scribbles

▲ Car olyn Forde ▲ Sam Hiyate ▲

A love letter to Black people

Chantal Gibson examines the politics of “add to cart” culture and activism in her second book of poetry

Name games

Don’t let a forgotten moniker catch you off guard at a book party

Natural wisdom

Suzanne Simard’s bestselling nonfiction debut takes people back to their roots

Gatekeepers to spacemakers

Hush Harbour restructures the submissions process

Remembering a cultural force

Naïm Kattan, 1928–2021

True North short and free

Canadian short fiction is a form defined by its undefinability

Keeping it short

The lowdown on this season’s story collections

Wanted on the Journey

How the 2021 Journey Prize is encouraging diversity in short fiction

Eye on the prize

Can short fiction prizes push a writer’s career forward?

To journal or not to journal

Literary magazines can still play a role in building a writer’s career

Life along the avenue

Displacement echoes through the generations in Conor Kerr’s debut short fiction collection

The home front

Two new short-story collections interrogate concepts of home and belonging

Stranger things

Adventurer Adam Shoalts travels to remote Labrador to unravel a monstrous mystery

Down memory lane

Naseem Hrab reminds us all languages matter

Animal rescue

Nicholas Read’s immersive narrative encourages readers to think deeply

Skin deep

J. Torres on the realities of discriminatory actions

Index

STARRED REVIEWS indicate books of exceptional merit

In focus

Wayne Simpson blends storytelling with photography in his collection of portraits