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Alison Gadsby is a first generation settler of Scottish ancestry, who currently lives and writes in Tkaronto – the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Wendat, Métis and Haudenosaunee.

Her short fiction appears in Blank Spaces, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, Coastal Shelf, Blue Lake Review, and many other literary journals in Canada and abroad. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, and a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from York University. She is the founder/host of Junction Reads, a prose reading series in the west end of Toronto where she lives in a multigenerational home that currently includes a mother, a husband, a son and ...more

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There is something exhilarating about starting a Robert Hough novel, but ANARCHISTS IN LOVE felt a bit different. With the rise (or revelation) of fascism and white supremacy, it’s impossible not to hope for the anarchy that is so alive in this novel ...more
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An immersive novel about language, love and what is lost when stories are withheld, stolen or denied. Mildred Chen is a bookseller in Hong Kong selling banned books in fake dustcovers with her aunt in a bookstore called Utopia Books. Faron Jones, now ...more
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“As a boy…I hated sissies, although I surely was one…But the only people I could love would have to have had such a past. A boyhood that the strong survive. The strong alone.” There are so many moments in I REMEMBER LIGHTS, Ben Ladouceur’s debut novel ...more
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Mackenzie Nolan’s novel, VEAL, opens with a dedication as important as any of the stunning sentences you’ll find within the pages of this extraordinary debut: “For all the women who are made to answer for the violence of men. I will always be in your ...more
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Alison Gadsby and 1 other person liked Hollay Ghadery's review of Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive: "These stories are a sometimes jarring, always hypnotic, staccato phase out of the world we know and simultaneously—through Gadsby’s deep rootedness to our reckless and remarkable humanity—a tether to it. Unforgettable."
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