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Fiction Anthologies (multiple Authors)

Breaking Boundaries

LGBTQ2 Writers on Coming Out and Into Canada

edited by Lori Shywdky

foreword by Robin Stevenson

Publisher
Rebel Mountain Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2019
Category
Anthologies (multiple authors), Gay & Lesbian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780994730275
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $13.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9789947302767
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $13.95

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An anthology of fiction, memoir, and poetry by LGBTQ2 writers (Canada-born, immigrated or refugee). The common thread throughout is that for LGBTQ2 people, Canada is the place to be. Nominated for the 2019 GEORGE RYGA AWARD - an annual literary prize for social awareness. Authors: Teryl Berg, Kyle Chen, Wendy J. Cutler, Corrie H. Furst, Kevin Henry, Anne Hofland, Chantal Hughes, Masaki Kidokoro, Dale Lee Kwong, Austin Lee, JL Lori, Eka Nasution and Rainer Oktovianus (narrators), Adam Nixon, Gail Marlene Schwartz, Caelan Sinclair, LS Stone, Sosania Tomlinson, E.T. Turner, Hayley Zacks.

About the authors

Lori Shwydky graduated Vancouver Island University (VIU) in 2016 with a BA in Creative Writing. She resides in Nanoose Bay, BC.

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Robin Stevenson is the award-winning author of more than 25 books for kids and teens, including the board book Pride Colors, the picture book Ghost’s Journey: A Refugee Story and the nonfiction books Kid Activists and Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle. The first edition of her nonfiction book Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community (2016) won a Stonewall Honor and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. Robin lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where she attends Pride celebrations with her family every year, but always leaves her dog safely at home.

 

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Awards

  • Nominated, Georga Ryga Award

Editorial Reviews

There is struggle in these stories and poems, but there is also strength and resilience, compassion and determination. It will carry us forward as we work to create a Canada that lives up to the dream of freedom and safety it represents to so many people around the world
--Robin Stevenson, author of Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Communityi/>

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