The Temz Review

ALT The cover of Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect. It's a somewhat stylized drawing of a thick forest. The title is very large and burnt-orange

ALT The cover of The Cost of Living, by Alan Bleakley and Shane Neilson. It's a black-and-white photo of a cross-section of a huge tree's trunk that has been cut down

ALT The cover of Judith Thompson's In Crow's Field. It's a photo of a girl lying on the grass, with bare legs and arms, in a blue dress or skirt. She is surrounded by dandelions. She is only visible from the waist down

ALT The cover of Cherry Beach, by Don Gillmor. It's a sepia-toned photo looking directly up at an apartment building. The colors in and around the building are warm pinks and blue-greens; the photo looks simultaneously washed out and full of color

ALT The cover of Layaway Child, by Chanel Sutherland. It's a warm mustard. There are two silhouetted figures in the middle, seemingly a mother and child; these figures are filled with blue and green abstract designs. The title looks like cursive handwriting

ALT The cover of Earthen, by Katherine Koller. It's a somewhat abstract painting of a landscape consisting of rolling hills/fields and pine trees along the horizon

ALT The cover of One Piece, by Eiichiro Oda. It's a typical manga style, with young people partying on a boat. There is a tropical island visible in the distance

ALT The cover of JoAnn McCaig's novel Beneficiary. The background is pink. In the middle, there is a black-and-white photo of a young girl waring a fancy dress and holding a parasol while sitting on what might be a bike. Pink outlines of roses are drawn on top of the photo

ALT The cover of JAWS, by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza. It's abstract, with horizontal waves of pink against a dark purple background. The title and author's name are off-kilter

ALT The cover of Things That Disappear, by Jenny Erpenbeck. It has a photo of an empty wooden frame, leaning against a gray wall

ALT The cover of Jennifer Falkner's Susanna Hall, Her Book. It looks like a Victorian color drawing of a red poppy from an encyclopedia of plants

ALT The cover of Farhang: Book Two, by Patrick Woodcock. It's a slightly cartoonish depiction of a many dressed in a robe of crumpled text, screaming at the dark, starry night around him

ALT The cover of Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections, by Monique Gray Smith. The cover has a black background, with stylized flowers that look like beadwork on it, and a hummingbird in the middle of the flowers

ALT The cover of Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive, by Alison Gadsby. It's a black-and-white photo of a woman underwater, with many bubbles around her face and head

ALT The cover of The Wiki of Babel, by Kyle Flemmer. It looks like a zoomed-in Wikipedia page, with the title in blue italics in the middle of unrelated text

ALT Headshot of Ian Thomas, standing outside in front of a deliberately-blurred background that is the massive trunk of a tree

ALT The cover of Green Islands, by Ian Thomas. The background is black; in the centre, there is a rectangular, artistic depiction of pine trees on small islands, with large mountains in the distance. The cover has a gold seal on it that says it is a contest winner

ALT Black-and-white headshot of Elizabeth Urso, against a black background

ALT The cover of Hail Mary, by Elizabeth Urso. The background color is a dark gray. In the middle, there is a black-and-white woman's torso that is being eaten into by brightly colored flames. The title and author's name are bright chartreuse

ALT Headshot of Sima Qadeer against a white background

ALT The cover of Brown Girls, Grown Up, by Sima Qadeer. The background is a reddish-orange. There are two large, abstract circles with pink and purple tinges taking up most of the space. The title and author's name are in yellow

ALT Black-and-white headshot of Aaron Schneider, standing in front of a white brick wall

ALT Headshot of Elwen Bernard-Kostadinov, standing in front of a wood-paneled wall. A bright light shines down directly on the top of his head