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A B O U T

The Literary Press Group of Canada (LPG) is a not-for-profitassociation of Canada’s finest literary book publishers, established in 1975. With acurrent membership of sixty Canadian-owned-and-operated publishing houses, the

LPG’s mandate is to support the growth of Canadian literary culture.

The LPG helps member publishers sell, distribute, and market their books tobooksellers, libraries, and institutions, as well as directly to readers.Canadian literary presses publish emerging, innovative, and diverse

creative voices, and often discover Canada’s literary stars.

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BOOKLAND PRESS| Bookland Press is an independent Canadian publishing house based inToronto, Ontario. Their interests range from contemporary poetry to beautifully writtenfiction and creative non-fiction. They attract, select, publish, and promote some of the mostexciting and creative Canadian writers of our times.

CORMORANT BOOKS l Cormorant Books publishes literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry,as well as books for young people under the imprint DCB

BRINDLE & GLASS | An imprint of TouchWood Editions, Brindle & Glass continues to live up to itsoriginal mandate to showcase the varied, unique, and homegrown literary talents of WesternCanadians. Through literary fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction, B&G offers compelling andrelevant stories that represent diverse people and perspectives.

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BREAKWATER BOOKS l Breakwater Books was founded in 1973 to showcase the high quality writing andstorytelling that exists in Newfoundland and Labrador. Breakwater publishes high quality literature in allgenres — literary and commercial fiction, non-fiction, plays, poetry, and children’s books, as well aseducational curricula — while continuing to promote culturally significant backlist titles.

REBEL MOUNTAIN PRESS|Founded in 2015, Rebel Mountain Press is a small, independently ownedCanadian book publisher of anthologies, poetry, children’s and young adult literature, memoir, and adultfiction. Rebel welcomes new and emerging Canadian authors, as well as more established Canadianwriters. The press's goal is to give a voice to Canadian authors who might not otherwise be heard, such asthose from the LGBTQ2+ community, authors of Aboriginal descent, or those from other marginalizedgroups.

MAWENZI HOUSE | Mawenzi House (previously TSAR Publications) is dedicated to bringing to thereading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity ofour rapidly globalizing world, particularly in Canada and the United States.

INANNA PUBLICATIONS | Founded in 1978, Inanna is one of only a very few independentfeminist presses in Canada committed to publishing fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction byand about women, and complementing this with relevant non-fiction, that bring new, innovative,and diverse perspectives with the potential to change and enhance women’s lives everywhere.

AT BAY PRESS | At Bay Press is an independent, award-winning publisher established in 2008that strives to seek out new work by undiscovered authors and artists and bring their work tolight. Their volumes are produced in Canada, some of which are constructed by hand. At Bay isknown for original, thoughtful content as well as exceptionally crafted and well designed titles.

GORDON HILL PRESS | Gordon Hill Press is a publisher of poetry and stylistically innovativefiction, non-fiction, and literary criticism (especially concerning poetry). We strive to include awide diversity of writers and writing, particularly writers living with disability.

NEWEST PRESS l Founded officially in 1979, Edmonton-based NeWest set out to provide betteropportunities for young writers in the prairie region, in a publishing industry that wastraditionally dominated by central Canadian publishing houses.

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

FictionElvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer (Cormorant Books))

All the Quiet Places (Brindle & Glass)

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Electricity Slides (BookLand Press)

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Blueberries and Apricots (Mawenzi House))

Occasionally Petty (At Bay Press)

In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2: A Collection of Indigenous Authors andArtists in Canada (Rebel Mountain Press)

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My Indian (Breakwater Books)

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Night Lunch (Gordon HIll Press)

Essential Ingredients (Inanna Publications)

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14From Bear Rock Mountain (Brindle & Glass)

Memory Serves (NeWest Press) 15

E l v i s , M e , a n d t h eL e m o n a d e S t a n d S u m m e r L E S L I E G E N T I L EC O R M O R A N T B O O K S

MIDDLE GRADE FICTION

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AVAILABLE NOW | $13..955.375 X 8" | 208 PAGES |

9781770866157

Themes: compassion; coming of age; community

Leslie Gentile is a singer/songwriter of Northern Salish,Tuscarora and Scottish heritage. She performs with herchildren in The Leslie Gentile Band, and with one of hersisters in The Half White Band. Gentile currently lives onVancouver Island with her husband. Elvis, Me, and theLemonade Stand Summer is her first novel.

It’s the summer of 1978 and most people think ElvisPresley has been dead for a year. But not eleven-year-old Truly Bateman – because she knows Elvis is aliveand well and living in the Eagle Shores Trailer Park.Maybe no one ever thought to look for him on anIndigenous reserve on Vancouver Island. It’s a busy summer for Truly. Though her mother is lessof a mother than she ought to be, and spends her timedrinking and smoking and working her way through newboyfriends, Truly is determined to raise as much moneyfor herself as she can through her lemonade stand...andto prove that her cool new neighbour is the one and onlyKing of Rock ‘n’ Roll. And when she can’t find motherlysupport in her own home, she finds sanctuary with AndyEl, the Salish woman who runs the trailer park.

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Winner, 2021 City of Victoria Children's Book PrizeShortlisted, 2022 Rocky Mountain Book AwardNominated, 2022 Forest of Reading - Silver Birch Award

A l l t h e Q u i e t P l a c e s B R I A N T H O M A S I S A A CB R I N D L E & G L A S S

FICTION

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AVAILABLE NOW | $225.5 X 8.5" | 288 PAGES |

9781990071027

Themes: Modern and contemporary fiction | Narrative theme: Coming of age | Narrative. theme: Identity / belonging | British Columbia | Relating to indigenous peoples

BRIAN THOMAS ISSAC was born in 1950 on the OkanaganIndian Reserve, situated in south central British Columbia.As a teenager he had a short career riding bulls in localrodeos until common sense steered him away, then wenton to work in the Northern Alberta oil fields and retired asa bricklayer. Writing is something he has done all of hislife. A lover of sports, Brian has coached minor hockey andplayed slow-pitch, and when he’s not spending time withhis three grandchildren you can find him on the golfcourse. He lives with his wife in the Salmon River Valleynear Falkland, BC. All the Quiet Places is Brian’s first book.

All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happenwhen every adult in a person's life has been affectedby colonialism; it tells of the acute separation fromculture that can occur even at home in a loved familiarlandscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded,unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.

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Themes: Relating to indigenous peoples

JOHN MCDONALD is a Neyhiyaw/Metis multidisciplinary artist and authorfrom Treaty Six Territory in Northern Saskatchewan. A sixth-generation directdescendant of Nehiyawak Chief Mistawasis, John is one of the foundingmembers of the P.A. Lowbrow art movement and is the Vice President of theIndigenous Peoples Artists Collective. John has studied at the prestigiousUniversity of Cambridge in England where, in July 2000, he madeinternational headlines by symbolically 'discovering' and 'claiming' Englandfor the First Peoples of the Americas. John is also an acclaimed publicspeaker, who has presented in venues across the globe. John has beenhonoured with several grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Electricity Slides is an avantgarde experiment into a mindwhere everything is at once concrete and intangible, realand fantasy, where once you believe you understand what’sgoing on, you suddenly realize that you don’t.

Electricity Slides is an experimental work, written in theDadaist “cut-up” style of the 1950s. Begun as a series oflive performance art monologues, "Electricity Slides"alternates between a third-person narrative and a first-person narrative of the nameless protagonist, a troubledand traumatized figure who speaks in a lyrical,poem/prose manner, in possession of a stolen, mind-altering substance through a connection with an equallynameless, equally mysterious woman. The reader istaken with the characters through a psychotropicjourney, like a dream, where vignettes are connectedonly slightly, as the characters find themselves facedwith the authoritarian and indoctrinating world of “TheMachine,” where mind manipulation and thoughtprogramming are paramount, while individuality ispunished with death.

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9781772311495

M y I n d i a nS A Q A M A W M I ’ S E L J O E &S H E I L A O ’ N E I L LB R E A K W A T E R B O O K S

HISTORICAL FICTION

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AVAILABLE NOW | $16.955.25 X 8" | 176 PAGES |

9781550818789

Themes: People & places, Canada, Indigenous, Indigenous history, young readers, teenage fiction

SAQAMAW MI'SEL JOE, LL. D, CM, is the author of Muinji’j Becomes a Man and AnAboriginal Chief’s Journey. He has been the District Traditional Chief of Miawpukek FirstNation since 1983, appointed by the late Grand Chief Donald Marshall. Mi’sel Joe isconsidered the Spiritual Chief of the Mi’kmaq of Newfoundland and Labrador.

SHEILA O'NEILL, B.A., B.Ed., is from Kippens, NL, and is a member of Qalipu Mi’kmaq FirstNation. Sheila is a Drum Carrier and carries many teachings passed down by respectedElders. As a founding member and past president of the Newfoundland AboriginalWomen’s Network (NAWN), she has been part of a grassroots movement of empowermentof Indigenous women within the island portion of Newfoundland and Labrador. She livesin St. John’s.

In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of aguide who could lead him across Newfoundland insearch of the last remaining Beothuk camps on theisland. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide onlyas “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later,Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill reclaim the story ofSylvester Joe, the Mi’kmaw guide engaged by Cormack. In a remarkable feat of historical fiction, My Indianfollows Sylvester Joe from his birth (in what is nowknown as Miawpukek First Nation) and early life in hiscommunity to his journey across the island withCormack. But will Sylvester Joe lead Cormack to theBeothuk, or will he protect the Beothuk and lead hiscolonial explorer away? In rewriting the narrative ofCormack’s journey from the perspective of his Mi’kmawguide, My Indian reclaims Sylvester Joe’s identity.


O c c a s i o n a l l y P e t t yM I C H E L L E L I E T ZA T B A Y P R E S S

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AVAILABLE APRIL 21,2022 $24.95 | 8 X 8"

125 PAGES 9781988168593

Themes: Music, identity, coming of age, indigenous

MICHELLE LIETZ is an American Indigenous writerof mixed Yaqui, European and Middle Easterndescent. She is currently pursuing a PhD inIndigenous Literature at the University of Manitobain Winnipeg (Treaty 1 land) and lives in Ypsilanti,Michigan (occupied Anishinaabeg land). Her poemshave previously been published in Prairie Fire'sNDNcity issue.

Like lyrics from a rock and roll album, this debutcollection of poetry unfolds page-by-page to reveala whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.Michelle Lietz grew up listening to the songs ofTom Petty. When the news of his passing wasannounced, the poet felt a piece of her past breakaway. Her beautiful poetry takes lyrics from Petty’ssongs to launch her exploration on themes ofnostalgia, adolescence, and the poet’s mixed Yaqui,European and Middle Eastern identity.


https://alllitup.ca/contributors/L/Lietz-Michelle

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9781988449326

Themes: Indigenous rights, the environment, community, language

NATASHA KANAPÉ FONTAINE, born in 1991, is a slam poet, visual artist andindigenous rights activist. Innu of Pessamit community of the North Shore,she spent most of her life in urban areas, as did many other Aboriginal youthof her generation. The original French title, from which this current title istranslated into English, earned her the prize for poetry of the Society ofFrancophone Writers of America, 2013. With an enduring commitment to theIdle No More movement, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine is part of the newgeneration of a people rising from the ashes, and who intends to take theplace she deserves. She lives in Montreal.


"In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginalwriter from Quebec again confronts the loss of herlandscape and language.

"On my left hipa face

I walkI walk uprightlike a shadow

a people on my hipa boatload of fruitand the dream insidewomen and children first"

A cry rises in me and transfigures me. The world waitsfor woman to come back as she was born: womanstanding, woman powerful, woman resurgent. A call risesin me and I've decided to say yes to my birth."

N i g h t L u n c hM I K E C H A U L KG O R D O N H I L L P R E S S

Night Lunch is a shapeshifting sonnet sequence set inthe cold waters off the North Coast of Labrador.Reflecting Chaulk’s own experience, the speaker—ayoung deckhand on a freight and passenger ferryservicing isolated communities—endures long irregularwork hours, weather, icebergs, and loneliness, all thewhile navigating the taut intersections of race, labour,class, and masculinity. That Chaulk has Inuit family inand from Labrador makes this debut poetic journey acultural coming-home for the young deckhand, aschronicled in supple, powerful verse.

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AVAILABLE NOW | $206 X 8.9" | 88 PAGES |

9781928171942

Themes: Labour, Indigeneity, Labrador

MIKE CHAULK lives in Guelph, Ontario, where he drivestrucks full of beer for a living. His work has appeared oris forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2018, The MalahatReview, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Puritan, PRISM:international, and filling Station, among other places. In2015, Chaulk co-founded & collective, an experimentalpoetry collective in Guelph, with whom he published twogroup chapbooks (& 1: works by & collective, self-published, and & 2: this happened to one of us,Publication Studio Guelph). He has worked as a seamanin Labrador, Sweden, and Wales, and previously lived inMontreal for five years where he punched time as theAssociate Poetry Editor of The Incongruous Quarterly aswell as the Editor-in-Chief of The Void Magazine atConcordia University. He now spends a good deal of timewalking his dog in the woods.


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9781771338875

Themes: Indigenous author, lone parents, parenting, mothering, family history

CAROL ROSE GOLDENEAGLE (previously Carol Daniels) isthe author of the novel Bearskin Diary, winner of theAboriginal Literature Award for 2017 and finalist forthree Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2016. Her first bookof poetry, Hiraeth, was shortlisted for a SaskatchewanBook Award in 2019. GoldenEagle is an Aboriginal artist,multi-disciplined in the areas of writing, storytelling,singing, drumming and visual art, and currently lives inRegina, SK.

Parenthood is a journey with no roadmap, and it is thechildren who most often steer the ship. There are timesin a parent’s life when they ask, “Why am I doing this?It’s so hard…” That is, until the moment of magic happen—and they always do.

In Essential Ingredients, Carol Rose GoldenEagle recallswhen Creator’s blessings have truly been bestowed in aparent’s shared life with their children. These poemsexamine hardship and struggle, the triumph of spirit andjoy, and serve as a reminder to all parents thatchildhood is fleeting.


I n O u r O w n A b o r i g i n a lV o i c e 2 : A c o l l e c t i o n o fI n d i g e n o u s a u t h o r s a n da r t i s t s i n C a n a d a M I C H A E L C A L V E R T , E D S .R E B E L M O U N T A I N P R E S S

NON-FICTION: ANTHOLOGY

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AVAILABLE NOW | $18.95 | 6 X 9" | 147 PAGES |

9780994730299

Themes: Indigenous short stories, poetry, and artwork. Reconciliation, resilience, residential schools, restitution, and more.

Helping to further the growth of Indigenous literaturewith stories, poetry, and artwork from Indigenousauthors and artists across Canada.

"There is medicine in these stories, stories that could onlybe told by those who lived to tell. Some still seekrestitution, long for healing, and to bring home the bonesof their ancestors." - Jonina Kirton, Author

Editor MICHAEL CALVERT'S publishing credits includethe anthology, In Our Own Aboriginal Voice volumesone and two, and Portal literary magazine. He is theeditor of Kiskajeyi- I AM READY. A graduate of VIU'sCreative Writing and Journalism program and SFU'sMasters of Publishing, Michael lives in Nanaimo, B.C.and teaches at Vancouver Island University.


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9781927366806

Themes: Indigenous identity, residential schools, Memoirs, Racism and racial discrimination, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Northwest Territories, Indigenous art

ANTOINE MOUNTAIN has received many awards for his art,community activism, and athletic achievement—includingthe NWT Premier's Award, the Queen's JubileeCommemorative Medal, the Tom Longboat Award—and wasrecently inducted in the NWT Sport Hall of Fame. Mountainis currently completing a PhD in Indigenous Studies at TrentUniversity in Peterborough, Ontario but will always callRadelie Koe (Fort Good Hope), Northwest Territories home.Find out more at amountainarts.com.

In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and socialactivist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable pictureof his journey from residential school to art school—and hispath to healing.

In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land nearRadelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Atthe tender age of seven, he was stolen away from hishome and sent to a residential school—run by the RomanCatholic Church in collusion with the Government ofCanada—three hundred kilometres away. Over the nexttwelve years, the three residential schools Mountain wasforced to attend systematically worked to erase hislanguage and culture, the very roots of his identity.While reconnecting to that which had been taken fromhim, he had a disturbing and painful revelation of thebitter depths of colonialism and its legacy of culturalgenocide. Canada has its own holocaust, Mountainargues. As a celebrated artist and social activist today,Mountain shares this moving, personal story of healingand the reclamation of his Dene identity.

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M E M O R Y S E R V E SL E E M A R A C L E

Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performedover a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, thelectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsicto the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo inparticular. From her Coast Salish perspective and withgreat eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto:lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality,feminism and the colonial condition of her people.

Powerful and inspiring, Memory Serves is an extremelytimely book, not only because it is the first collection oforatories by one of the most important Indigenousauthors in Canada, but also because it offers allCanadians, in Maracle's own words, "another way to be,to think, to know," a way that holds the promise of a"journey toward a common consciousness."

Poet, author, and teacher LEE MARACLE was an award-winning and critically acclaimed Indigenous Canadianwriter and academic of the Stó:lo nation. She passedaway in 2021.

NON-FICTION - ORATORIES

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9781926455440

Themes: Writer As Critic series, Indigenous; Stó:lo; Essays; Oratories; Environment; Gender

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