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2023 Finalist for Art
2023 Finalist for Multicultural
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The Uyghurs
2023 Finalist for Short Stories
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Places like These
Book Review
The Death of Tony
by Mari Carlson
Lithuanian-Canadian Antanas Sileika’s memoir "The Death of Tony" is about moving between two worlds. Sileika’s parents fled Lithuania following the Soviet takeover in 1944. Sileika grew up outside of Toronto, where he had jaunty...
Book Review
In Utero
A girl befriends an orphaned monster in the graphic novel "In Utero". Despite her protests, Hailey is dropped off at a holiday camp in an old, near-abandoned shopping mall. As other children discover strange jelly objects, Hailey wanders...
Book Review
Wild Geese
A trans woman confronts her uneasy past when her former girlfriend makes an unexpected visit in Soula Emmanuel’s intimate, provocative novel "Wild Geese". Phoebe is a thirty-year-old Irish graduate student in Copenhagen. Halfway...
Book Review
Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief
Jessica Hendry Nelson’s probing memoir-in-essays "Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief" grapples with divorce, childlessness, sexual orientation, and addiction. With subjects including Nelson’s origin story (wherein her mother’s...
Book Review
American Scholar
An intelligent man with trauma in his past gets in the way of his own personal fulfillment in the powerful novel "American Scholar". In Patrick E. Horrigan’s literary novel "American Scholar", a gay man spends his adulthood learning to...