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category: Fiction
published: Apr 2019
ISBN:9789947302767
publisher: Rebel Mountain Press

Breaking Boundaries

LGBTQ2 Writers on Coming Out and Into Canada

edited by Lori Shywdky, foreword by Robin Stevenson

tagged: anthologies (multiple authors), gay & lesbian
Description

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 Shywdky

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

Robin Stevenson is the author of more than thirty books for kids and teens, including Pride Puppy!, Pride Colors and Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change. The first edition of her nonfiction book Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community (2016) won a Stonewall Honor and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. In 2023, she was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in British Columbia. Robin lives in Victoria.

Awards
  • , Georga Ryga Award
Editorial Review

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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