Inanna Publications

07/25/2025

🚨Available now & COMING SOON🚨

This we're celebrating our upcoming releases plus some excellent titles already available for purchase 🎉

🔜SUMMER 2025
Mad Dog & the Sea Dragon 🐉 Named & Nameless 🏞️ This May Be the Year 🐤

🔜FALL 2025
A Watch of Nightingales 🎨 Black Creek 🛶 No Wrong Seasons 📸 Echo Chamber 🔊 Concrete Women 🌇

🛒 AVAILABLE NOW
Robin MacFarland series 🔌 Tucked Away 💼 Zulaikha ✈️ Broken Fiction 🎭 Privacy is a Foreign Word in Supino 🍷 The Meadowlands 🧚‍♂️ Hypatia's Wake 🏺 Circle Tour ☂️ Poetry Marching for Sindy 🌿

+ Inanna's entire backlist available online 💻 links in bio 🔗

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07/23/2025

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ➡️

Award-winning poet and avid birder Carole Giangrande returns with an evocative "birdmind" view on love, loss, rebirth, and recalibration in this collection of encounters with the human and natural worlds.

Perfect for fans of Mary Oliver.

releasing Summer 2025 🐦 pre-order links in story & bio 🐦 also available for pre-order wherever books are sold

07/18/2025

We are honoured to bring you a first look at FIVE NEW Inanna covers, all releasing this fall 🍂

Featuring art by Juliane van Huizen & Nicole Beno 🎨

descriptions below 👇

🕊️A WATCH OF NIGHTINGALES by Catherine Walker

This historical mystery novel re-imagines a little-known time in the life of famous Canadian painter Emily Carr.

🌇BLACK CREEK by Susan Gundry

When Kate’s mother dies, she calls out five mysterious names from her deathbed, propelling Kate on a journey to unravel the mysterious dreams she’s had since childhood.

📸NO WRONG SEASONS by Brenda Hartwell

A gruff and reclusive painter befriends a lonely young photographer as he and his friends navigate coming of age.

👫ECHO CHAMBER by Renee Norman & Carl Leggo

Echo Chamber is a follow-up on Renee Norman and Carl Leggo’s Hearing Echoes, which was a collection of poetry that moved between two strong voices focusing on family relationships in all their intersections and differences.

🏬CONCRETE WOMEN: GENDER, URBANISM, AND PROTEST IN SOUTH ASIA

People who live in South Asian cities re-shape politics and actualize constitutional rights, in parks, on playgrounds, and in city streets. Each chapter in this book discusses feminist, Transgender, and q***r movements in urban India and Pakistan.

🔗 pre-order links in story and bio, also available for pre-order wherever books are sold.

07/17/2025

July is Disability Pride Month 🎆

This is a time to celebrate the identities, cultures, and contributions of people living with disabilities. For an in-depth look into the challenges faced by women with mental, physical, visible, and invisible disabilities, and their epic resilience, check out these two exceptional collections of short stories, poetry, essays, and visual art from authors across the globe: Living the Edges & Still Living the Edges, edited by Diane Driedger 🌎♿

🔗 Purchase links can be found on our story and in our bio

06/27/2025

Tomorrow!! Toronto International Festival of Authors Eliza Reid Hannah Mary McKinnon 🌟😎 Thank you Toronto Life! 🙏

06/26/2025

Horses In The Sand is sequel to ​First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir. It is a collection of stories that document a q***r women's journey from sparce beginnings ...

06/22/2025

"In Search of Pure Lust is an invigorating ride through the heady days of 70s and 80s feminism, a raw mixture of the personal with the political and the political with the personal. It’s also a compelling meditation on le***an desire. Weil’s searing honesty—it’s never easy to look in the mirror, never mind reveal to the world what you see—grips you and never lets go."

—Eva Tihanyi, author of The Largeness of Rescue

06/20/2025

It’s not easy “choosing not to choose,” especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007.

Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn’t make a big deal about it. Then Corey’s dad dies suddenly. Now Corey’s disapproving mother wants Corey to “pick a side”. Corey’s old enough to say no to medical intervention—but not old enough to avoid being held in a youth psych ward when their mom makes an issue of Corey’s refusal to conform to the gender binary.

06/18/2025

Happy Pride! Today we're spotlighting Vivian Zenari's masterful debut. 'Deuce' centers on the journey of one intersex person as he runs away from home, finds his community, and expands his quest for liberation in ways he never expected.

06/12/2025

Don't miss the new book from Lisa de Nikolits, the Queen of Canadian speculative fiction!

In this darkly comedic modern noir, two sisters navigate resentment, anger, and their complex family history while they try to hustle a dangerous gangster. Fans of "Hustlers" and "A Simple Favor" will love this intertwined and surprising new take on age-old cons playing out in a gritty modern setting!

MAD DOG AND THE SEA DRAGON will be available on July 15th!

06/05/2025

Spotlight on 🌈 books! As an activist press, Inanna has been proud to champion stories by and about people from all over the LQBTQ2SAI+ spectrum since 1978. Watch this space through the month of June to learn more about our q***r books and authors! 🌈 ***an ***rfeminism

08/02/2023

To the Inanna Community:

Inanna Publications and Education Inc. is going through a necessary restructuring of our organization. Over the last two years we have worked with consultants to determine what Inanna needs to do to remain a viable publishing house. Inanna has been able to incorporate some changes in the way we work but unfortunately, we are currently in a position where we must lay off staff to remain sustainable.

Despite reduced staff, we are working on ways to continue in the short term to publish our Fall 2023 list. We remain committed to our mission and are seeking creative options to secure our publishing future for the next 45 years of publishing outstanding feminist books.

Thank you for your support in these difficult times. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Brenda Cranney
Interim Publisher
Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
210 Founders College, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON. M3J 1P3

Publishers of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction dedicated to feminist voices and provoking discussion and advancing feminist thought.