Jasmine Sealy's debut novel, The Island of Forgetting, was the winner of the HarperCollins-UBC Prize for Best New Fiction.

Laure Baudot’s debut collection of short stories is This One Because of the Dead (Cormorant Books 2019).

Michelle Good is the author of Five Little Indians, which has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Scotiabank-Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Award for Fiction, and recently won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Amazon First Novel Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.