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Black Voices

Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Black authors

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Seven Heavens Away

Seven Heavens Away

A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

A Love Affair with the Unknown

A refreshing look at the inevitability of uncertainty to help make the hard parts of life more manageable.

Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith, featuring a colourful, beaded floral pattern with a hummingbird at the centre and a glowing yellow and orange background.

Sharing the Light

Uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, joy, and hope in navigating life in a changing, challenging world.

Cover: Planet Earth: Stories by Nicholas Ruddock. The title and author name fill the cover in block capital letters over a background of an abstract painting of a forest fire. The dark shapes of pine trees are distinguishable and there is a swath of red across the middle of the image.

Planet Earth

International award–winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

On Wholeness

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation

Cover: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, edited by Terese Mason Pierre. Features a stylized, colourful bee illustration on a dark background.

As the Earth Dreams

A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.

I Make My Own Fun

I Make My Own Fun

An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandom

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

John Candy

The definitive biography of film legend John Candy—a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars.

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

Procession

At once descendants and future ancestors, Procession explores the connections we have with ourselves, with friends, and within families and Nations.

This Is How We Love

This Is How We Love

From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?

Cover: Letters to Kafka, a novel by Christine Estima. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a woman with dark hair lying on her side, her face in three-quarter profile and her eyes looking up at the viewer. The bottom left corner of a windowpane is visible behind her.

Letters to Kafka

A sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures. Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World by Alex Neve. The entire cover is framed in a white box according to the CBC Massey Lectures series look. Within the frame is an abstract illustration of several faces created from a collage of multicoloured fragments. The author's name and the title are set in the lower half of the cover against this background.

Universal

The 2025 Massey Lectures delivered by human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve.

Cover: The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki. The title appears in large white text against an orange-yellow gradient background that evokes a sunset. Two silhouetted hands appear, one at the top reaching down, the other at the bottom reaching up. The author's name appears at the bottom in yellow text.

The Hand of Iman

In this award-winning debut novel, dreaming is a luxury that few can afford. And yet, however inadvisedly, Iman dreams.

Cover: The Golden Daughter: My Mother's Secret Past as a Ukrainian Slave Worker in Nazi Germany by Halina St. James. An illustration of three sunflowers in descending size from the left on a dark blue background: the biggest flower has orange petals, the middle one is yellow, and the smallest one is pink; they all have green stems with leaves.

The Golden Daughter

Secret wartime letters, a volatile love triangle, an unmarked grave—a revelatory mother-daughter memoir about discovery, love, and forgiveness.

Cover: In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World, by Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel. The cover has a red background with white and black text. It features a grainy black photograph of an unidentified guitarist jumping in the air in front of a microphone stand.

In Too Deep

The unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry

Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Cover: Soft as Bones, A Memoir by Chyana Marie Sage. A stark black-and-white image of a deer's skull on a grey background.

Soft as Bones

A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing

New on the Blog

A Love Affair with the Unknown author Gillian Deacon offers advice on how to embrace uncertainty in the new year.

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New Releases

My Subway Runs

My Subway Runs

For a young child, a subway journey is an eye-opening city-life experience. A story-poem from award-winning creators James Gladstone and Pierre Pratt.

Leo and Ralph

Leo and Ralph

Leo’s best friend is a short, furry alien named Ralph. The friends are forced say goodbye when Leo’s family moves away — but why should they?

Planting Sunshine

Planting Sunshine

When does the war over there become the war over here? In this novel in verse, a boy named Theo can’t stop worrying about the war he sees on TV.

Cover: Community Snowman. Story by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrated by Tine Modeweg-Hansen. This book is wordless and laid out in a graphic novel style. There are three snowy scenes stacked on top of each other against a blue background of people of various ages and skin tones pushing large balls of snow alone or together in colourful winter clothing.

Community Snowman

Building a snowman becomes a community effort in this wordless story about a cold winter day that snowballs into a warm neighborhood gathering.

Cover: The Story and Science of Hope. By Andrea Curtis and illustrated by Ana Suárez. A woman with medium skin tone and long black hair in a braid sits with her knees to her chest. She holds a rainbow-colored planet surrounded by a ring system and stars. The woman wears a multi-colored outfit and black shoes.

The Story and Science of Hope

Hope is more than a feeling — it can change the world! Discover how new science and ancient knowledge can help us face an uncertain world.

Cover: Home For Margaret. Written by Denise Davy. Illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte. A young girl sits with a woman in the snow in front of a blue tent surrounded by bare trees. The girl has medium light skin tone and curly black hair in two buns, and the woman has light skin tone; medium length gray hair and both their cheeks and nose are rosy. The woman’s hands are tucked into her jacket pocket, while the girl raises her arm as she is talking. Beside the young girl in the snow is a white grocery bag.

Home for Margaret

When Emma and her mom meet a woman who lives in a tent in the woods, Emma wonders if there’s anything she can do to help.

Cover: Nightmare Jones: poems. Written by Shannon Bramer and illustrated by Cindy Derby. The title is circled by spooky plants and flowers, painted in red, purple and blue watercolor.

Nightmare Jones

A collection of jaunty and mischievously unsettling poems for middle-grade readers from award-winning poet Shannon Bramer and artist Cindy Derby.

Cover: The Butterfly’s Sting by Abbie Harlow. A teen girl, visible from the waist up, holds her fists in front of her with a focused expression on her face. Her hair is in a braid and she’s wearing a sports bra and athletic pants. The image is depicted in black and red.

The Butterfly's Sting

For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle — but only if she can win.

Cover: Wavelength by Cale Plett. When fame and love are on the line, everyone’s hearts are in the mosh pit. Two people, facing away from us, stand on a stage in front of a large crowd looking into each other’s eyes. The person on the left has light skin tone and brown hair. They hold the microphone while they sing. The person on the right has light skin tone and dark brown hair with an undercut. They have a purple guitar slung over their shoulder.

Wavelength

Hannah Montana meets Heartstopper in this story of a nonbinary pop star on the run who collides with a regular teenager and her alt-rock band.

Cover: My Street Remembers. Written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson. Paintings were inspired by illustrator’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee background, showing organic shapes in thick outlines. A turtle crawls along the sand, leaving footprints behind. The sky is blue. Grass grows above, and under it there is dark earth with a long, curving black line bisected by shorter vertical lines. Pictured on the left side of the page is half of a medicine wheel ringed with a braided grass ring.

My Street Remembers

My Street Remembers peels back the history of a single city street in North America to reveal the greater story of the land on which we live.

Studio Tour

Explore One Can illustrator Isabelle Malenfant's studio!

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