Anvil Press: 77 books

Winner, ReLit Award (Novel) CBC Books' "Writers to Watch" Pick Nate’s nervous mother chews gum at warp speed and has a bob that resembles Darth Vader’s helmet. His icy father dabbles part-time in the death trade at a funeral home after working for a decade in the insurance...

Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature series Set in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, Mirror on the Floor focuses on one summer in the life of UBC grad student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing. They spend their time carousing the downtown eastside and engaging in conversations...

Finalist, ReLit Awards (shortlist) Black Rabbit & Other Stories is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike possibility. Even in their frequent explorations of brutality, the author...

ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015 Winner, Type Books Award In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, she could not help falling. More than a portrait...

Rose Dubois and Julie O’Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer’s day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined. Worldwide climate change and dramatic shifts in weather patterns foreshadow their predestined suffering. As is soon...

Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough) Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been...

Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer takes up where Stuart Ross’s Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer left off in 2005. Memoir, tirade, unsolicited advice — this new volume is drawn largely from Stuart’s notorious “Hunkamooga” column that ran in subTerrain, but also includes...

The Incomparables is the debut novel from the Trillium nominated author of Animal. Lydia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costumes, she expresses herself in a way she feels incapable of doing in words. For the past ten years she’s apprenticed...

Winner, SFU Writer's Studio's First Book Competition (2010) Winner, Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award (2011) Unmarried and pregnant in 1968 Winnipeg, teenager Myrl Coulter found herself at a loss. Unable (and perhaps unwilling) to support her child, Myrl’s parents...

Finalist, ReLit Award Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year (Manitoba Book Awards) Finalist, Bisexual Book Award (USA) Whitetail Shooting Gallery, a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee, Annette Lapointe, is set in the outer urban, often desolate,...

ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015 Finalist, Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner, National Magazine Award, Silver Medal for Humour, for the story "It Seems Like Sex is a Weird Thing That Used to Happen to Me," from I'm Not Scared of You or Anything The characters in I’m...

Afflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person experiential essays by writer and academic Madeline Sonik. Although Sonik explores some of the salient personal experiences of her young life, the essays in Afflictions & Departures are not traditional memoir. In addition to incidents...

Finalist, ReLit Award Amazon.ca's 50 Essential Canadian Books selection First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, Salvage King, Ya! is a novel firmly rooted in Canada’s favourite national pastime—hockey. Critics have called Salvage King, Ya! “the great Canadian novel,”...

Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) Winner, CNFC Readers' Choice Award for "Threshold" In this debut collection of personal essays, Silcott looks at the tangle of midlife, the long look back, the shorter look forward, and the moments right now that shimmer...