In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Kai Cheng Thom draws equally from memory and mythology to create new maps of gender, race, sexuality, and violence.
Under-represented Voices Audiobook Project
The Under-represented Voices Project started in 2020 from a commitment to working with narrators that can represent the texts they are reading! This meant reaching out through Social media and offering free training in recording and voice alongside standard narration wages to make the project as open as possible to diverse talent.
Since beginning in 2020 we have produced audiobooks working with authors, theatre students, radical publishers and amazing individual talent. We would like to give special thanks to Metonymy Press for connecting us with so many of your talented (and award winning) authors and Anna Leventhal for sharing in your networks!
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Author:Thom, Kai ChengSummary: - Author:Summary:
An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. As...
- Author:Shidmehr, NilofarSummary:
Acclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada. The stories begin in 1978, the year before the Iranian Revolution...
- Author:Al-Solaylee, KamalSummary:
Arab-Canadian writer and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee, a gay man who grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Yemen, delivers a courageous, brutally honest, engaging and often funny memoir of family life over six decades. While he...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
Jason is on outsider. A recent immigrant from China, he lives in a close-minded town with his mother and younger brother. Trying hard to fit in, Jason falls in with the wrong crowd and ends up in trouble with the police. Jason finds he...
- Author:Chow, OliviaSummary:
What drives Olivia Chow? How did she emerge from a turbulent childhood to become an inspiring political force? What influences and events have shaped her life? And how is she continuing her quest after losing her partner in life and...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle; Green Grass, Running Water and The Inconvenient Indian Thumps DreadfulWater's world is turned upside down when Nina Maslow, the producer of a true-crime reality...
- Author:Wilson-Yang, Jia QingSummary:
Small Beauty tells the story of Mei, who in coping with the death of her cousin abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town. There she connects with his history as well as her own, learns about her aunt'...
- Author:GinalinaSummary:
Learn about rivers and the plants and animals that depend on them. Explore how vital rivers are to our ways of life, and how we can protect them.
- Author:Laferrière, DanySummary:
At the age of twenty-three, the narrator hurriedly packed his bags and left behind the stifling heat of Port-au-Prince for the unending winter of Montreal. It was 1976, and Baby Doc Duvalier's regime had just killed a journalist...
- Author:Brand, DionneSummary:
The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal,...
