This anthology is a celebration of Canadian voices, featuring 19 brand new stories for teens from authors across Canada. The themes of identity, transformation, and belonging are expressed through multiple genres. I’m Here is ideal for educators, librarians, and readers aged 12+ seeking meaningful, diverse, and contemporary YA fiction.

Edited by Beverley Brenna.

Now available at your favourite bookseller.

Table of Contents:

The Undertakers – Dennis Allen
State of Being – Simone Garneau
How to Be No One – Beth Goobie
Design – Sylvia Gunnery
Sad Cat – Madeleine Hart
Mental – Charise Jewell
A Spare Room – Alice Kuipers
Reading the Field – Patricia McCowan
The Plowman – Lynn McGonigle Clarke
Right Defense – Jean Mills
The Bellstead Kittens – Ann Margaret Oberst
Comfortable Morsels – Patricia Robertson
Iron Icarus Rising – Ziggy Schutz
The Lodestone – Brian Slattery
She Is – Kelly Stewart
Ancestration – Michael F. Stewart
Here Me Is – Colin Thornton
Saving Prometheus – Maureen Ulrich
Accidental Athlete – Carleigh Wu

Published November 2025 by Sutherland House Books.

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