Amber Dawn

The first full-length poetry book by the Lambda Literary and Vancouver Book Award Winner. Award-winning writer Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a suite of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets,such as the legendary Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich, as well as contemporaries like Leah Horlick, Rachel Rose, and Trish Salah. (Glosas, a 15th-century Spanish form, typically open with a quatrain from an existing poem by another writer, followed by four stanzas of ten lines each, and usually end with a line repeated from the opening quatrain.) By doing so, Amber Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work.

Where the Words End and My Body Begins

A new poetry collection by award-winning writer Amber Dawn that probes the sacrifices that artists make for their art.

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

The second novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Amber Dawn that is both a family melodrama and a lesbian supernatural thriller.

Sodom Road Exit

An anthology of erotic lesbian horror comprised of tales (and a few poems) with a decidedly female twist. The writings are poised as a feminist response to the traditional horror tropes, often depicting women as the victims. In this empowering collection, contributors such as Michelle Tea, Courtney Trouble and Larissa Lai turn the genre on its head.

Tales of Fear & Queer Desire

Fist of the Spider Woman

A runaway teenager named Little discovers an underground society of ghosts, magicians, and missing girls called Sub Rosa where she finds herself initiated into a family of magical prostitutes and is called upon to lead them out of the darkness.

Sub Rosa

Justin DuCharme

A groundbreaking collection of sex workers' poetry from around the world.

An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry

Hustling Verse

The author describes, through prose and poetry, her experiences as a prostitute in Vancouver, which nearly destroyed her life, and how she found a new start as an author and poet.

A Hustler's Memoir

How Poetry Saved My Life

Amber Dawn's latest poetry collection flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power As a novelist, memoirist, and poet, Amber Dawn regularly lays her heart bare in work that is fiery, raw, and intensely personal. In Buzzkill Clamshell, her third poetry collection, Amber Dawn circumvents the expectations of so-called confessional poetry, offering twisted mythmaking, extreme hyperbole, and lyrical gutter-mouthing that explore themes of sick and disabled queerness, aging, and desire. With poems populated by severed heads, domme swan maidens, horny oracles, and other horrible purveyors of pleasure, Buzzkill Clamshell reads as if a leather dyke and a demonic goat had a baby―gleefully embracing the perverse while stomping its way through chronic pain and complex PTSD. Already acclaimed for her candid and often kinky verse, Amber Dawn pushes further into trauma-informed eroticism with self-assured irreverence and uncomfortable abjectivity. Beneath her brilliant, carnivalesque imagery lies a prayer―not for the pain to end, but for finding fantastic new ways to cope with it. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This book is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Buzzkill Clamshell

Justin Ducharme

In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. In a variety of forms ranging from lyrics to list poems to found poetry to hybrid works, these authors express themselves with the complexity, agency, and honesty that sex workers are rarely afforded. Contributors from Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia include Gregory Scofield, Tracy Quan, Summer Wright, and Akira the Hustler. As an antidote to the invasive and often biased media depictions of sex workers, Hustling Verse is a fiercely groundbreaking exploration of intimacy, transactional sex, identity, healing, and resilience.

An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry

Heather Lynn

This split zine is written by two women who have been sexually assaulted and have been labeled mentally ill. Heather Lynn is 16 and working class and has been hospitalized for self-harm and borderline personality disorder. Amber Dawn dropped out of high school and has since begun to live better with her mental illness.

#7 ; Hands off. #4

Reclaiming by Name

Trish Kelly

A rebellious anthology of stories about sex and the modern femme - no holds barred queer sex tales that reinvent lesbian erotica in transgressive and empowering ways. Blunt, hard-hitting stories challenge traditional lace-and-feather notions of gender roles when it comes to getting off.

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