Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist

Anvil Press

Stolen (New Edition)

By Annette Lapointe

Giller Prize Nominee


Rowan Friesen has made a career of drug-dealing and small-time thievery on the outer edges of Saskatoon. Shiftless and seemingly friendless, he is, at first glance, an unlikely protagonist. But as Stolen unfolds, we learn the details of Rowan’s life: his well meaning but self-absorbed mother, his mentally ill father, and a high-school friendship both lustful and incendiary.

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Stolen Voices/Vacant Rooms

By Steve Lundin and Mitchell Parry

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The Stone Face

By Sherry MacDonald

The year is 1964 and first-time film director Alan Schneider is about to embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett.

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Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver

By Michael Barnholden, Nancy Newman, Lindsay Mearns

In Street Stories, Lindsay Mearns turns a sympathetic lens on the faces of Vancouver’s homeless and reveals them for the everymen and women they are.

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Struck : 25th annual 3-day novel contest winner!

By Geoffrey Bromhead

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Stupid Crimes

By Dennis E. Bolen

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Sub-Rosa & Other Fiction

By Catherine Bennett

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Suburban Pornography

By Matthew Firth

The stories in Suburban Pornography revolve around ordinary characters and problems—people stuck in bad relationships or jobs. Some yearn for something just beyond their grasp, something authentic to knock them out of their malaise. Their frailties and obsessions are front and centre.

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Sugar Bush & Other Stories

By Jenn Farrell

The stories in Sugar Bush & Other Stories deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Most of the pieces feature female protagonists who navigate their young adult years in some questionable ways.

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Suicide Psalms

By Mari-Lou Rowley

Suicide Psalms is both hymn and visceral scream—of loss, despair, hope and ultimately redemption. These poems are drawn out with quick precision, as if they were indeed written in haste, or delirium, before tightening the noose or firing the pistol or jumping off the ledge.

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