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Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology
Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later. It presents us with a “chorus of emotional reality,” in a community in its most vibrant state. The collection includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and an introduction by the editors.
160 pages, Paperback
Published June 15, 2020
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October 9, 2021
Everything I was expecting and more from this anthology! My only complaint is that it wasn’t long enough. I need a second edition ASAP!
May 6, 2021
This is a wonderful collection of essays, poems, and short stories. The writing is surprising, memorable, and heartfelt. I would've loved to read more, so I hope the editors eventually decide to do a second Scarborough Anthology.
April 27, 2022
SCARBOROUGH🖤
December 12, 2024
Loved this. Would've changed the trajectory of my life if it came out a couple years earlier. One of the poems really got on my nerves, but everything else made up for it.
February 24, 2023
This book is an excellent collection of writers from Scarborough, showcasing the incredible talent and stories from this community. This is no surprise given the editors' own spectacular works and their clear love and dedication to Scarborough and all the stories to be told in it. Each piece is gripping and emotional and curated to share all sides of this special place. A beautiful, necessary anthology that will truly make you FEEL WAYS!
March 31, 2022
"What would our aesthetic mission be? 'Scarborough writing needs to make you feel ways.' Not just to feel a way, in the singular, like that Drake song. Not to feel some type of way. But to feel ways: to stir up a plethora of emotions that compel you into action, not in the service of a liberal state that thrives off of a community's trauma, but one that is ultimately disloyal to the sentimentalism that Canadian literature demands its resource frontiers."
what a powerful foreword that let me know right from the start that this would be a collection with a goal that understood this little (but actually quite large) hometown of mine. while usually negatively stereotyped and misrepresented in media, this is a true love letter to scarborough and its people. a wonderful collection of art from creators here. i plan to look into the works of the contributors further and i truly hope this anthology will have future editions!
what a powerful foreword that let me know right from the start that this would be a collection with a goal that understood this little (but actually quite large) hometown of mine. while usually negatively stereotyped and misrepresented in media, this is a true love letter to scarborough and its people. a wonderful collection of art from creators here. i plan to look into the works of the contributors further and i truly hope this anthology will have future editions!
May 22, 2022
love my city :D
November 2, 2021
3.5/4 stars.
The writers collected here all have an intimate connection and experience of Scarborough that comes through with such clarity in their pieces.
– Making bedfellows of trauma, we forget the truths that exist beyond the meanings we have attached to them. Scarborough tells me : child, I can have no linear meaning to you. I am queer earth. –excerpt from Queer Earth: End of the World Erotics
A collection of pieces spanning fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; all exploring a place as home, friend, family, and community. Each writer is intimately connected to and cognizant of what Scarborough means to them and their words clearly share their experiences and complex relationships to it.
Belonging, expression, and identity are themes examined across this anthology and the creativity with which each writer brings to the page shines through, highlighting the depth of their bond with their home.
I appreciate the editors for gathering these works here, with their Queer, Black, Othered, haunting recollections of existing, surviving, and thriving in a colonised land amidst colonised minds.
The writers collected here all have an intimate connection and experience of Scarborough that comes through with such clarity in their pieces.
– Making bedfellows of trauma, we forget the truths that exist beyond the meanings we have attached to them. Scarborough tells me : child, I can have no linear meaning to you. I am queer earth. –excerpt from Queer Earth: End of the World Erotics
A collection of pieces spanning fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; all exploring a place as home, friend, family, and community. Each writer is intimately connected to and cognizant of what Scarborough means to them and their words clearly share their experiences and complex relationships to it.
Belonging, expression, and identity are themes examined across this anthology and the creativity with which each writer brings to the page shines through, highlighting the depth of their bond with their home.
I appreciate the editors for gathering these works here, with their Queer, Black, Othered, haunting recollections of existing, surviving, and thriving in a colonised land amidst colonised minds.
December 12, 2024
simply a beautiful anthology
November 9, 2025
brought a little bit of home with me on this trip to the Big Apple (Nov 2025). <3<3<3
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