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Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth

What happens when one motherhood begins just as another is lost? In a world that glorifies motherhood and shuns grief, Milk Teeth explores the visceral collision of becoming a mother while mourning one. Told through a hybrid form as fragmented and nonlinear as grief...
Why Not Me

Why Not Me

In this candid memoir, Lindsay Ireland evolves from an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with a devastating autoimmune diagnosis, into a young woman struggling to love a body that has continuously failed her. As she navigates adulthood, she confronts the compounding...
Forget Regret 

Forget Regret 

When an unexpected accident altered everything for sixteen-year old Kamya Rilling, life was just beginning. Finding herself in a hospital bed with partial paralysis due to a traumatic brain injury, Kamya faced an uncertain future. Forget Regret is a powerful memoir...
With Love, Jawn

With Love, Jawn

An enduring family memoir set in the backdrop of Canadian history, including the Second World War, the 1950s and 60s. In With Love, Jawn, author Dorothy Willis celebrates the living legacy of her father, John Roland Willis. As a father, John broke through societal...
Are You Listening?

Are You Listening?

Are You Listening? is a journey of sound, sight and story. Using poems and stories, this memoir explores intergenerational displacement, and speaks the truths of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, and is forced to navigate a...