by Susan Forest
Childline Helpline (https://www.childline.ie): Confidential for young people (under 18). Phone: 1-800-66-66-66
For more mental health information: www.mentalhealthireland.ie
Australia
Helplines, websites and government mental health services for Australia: mhaustralia.org/need-help
Kids Helpline: Confidential and anonymous, telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between 5 and 25. Phone: 1-800-55-1800 or visit
www.kidshelp.com.au
Lifeline: 24 hour telephone counselling service. Phone: 13-11-14 or visit www.lifeline.org.au
New Zealand
Helplines, websites and government mental health services for New Zealand: www.mentalhealth.org.nz/get-help/in-crisis/helplines
Youthline (for young people under 25): 0800-376-633. More information online: http://www.youthline.co.nz
Lifeline: 0800-543-354 or (09) 5222-999 within Auckland
Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508-828-865 (0508-TAUTOKO)
International
Mental Health & Psychosocial Support: International Medical Corps https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/mentalhealth
International Association for Youth Mental Health http://www.iaymh.org/links.aspx
Crisis Helpline for Various Countries: http://www.yourlifecounts.org/need-help/crisis-lines
Emergency Number for Various Countries: http://www.suicidestop.com/worldwide_emergency_numbers.html
Suicide Crisis Helpline for Various Countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines, http://www.suicidestop.com/call_a_hotline.html
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION RESOURCES
Discrimination is an action or a decision that treats a person or a group negatively for reasons such as:
national or ethnic origin
colour
religion
age
sex
sexual orientation
marital status
family status
disability
What is Discrimination? For more information (Canadian Human Rights Commission):
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/eng/content/what-discrimination
Canada
Promoting Relationship & Eliminating Violence Network (Prevnet): Information on bullying, resources on bullying and prevention at http://www.prevnet.ca
List of Crisis Centres in Canada: http://suicideprevention.ca/need-help
Free LifeLine App (Apple & Android): http://thelifelinecanada.ca/lifeline-canada-foundation/lifeline-app
United States
Cyberbullying Research Centre: Facts, Information, Blogs, and Resources at http://cyberbullying.org/resources
Crisis Text Line is a not-for-profit organization providing free crisis intervention via SMS message. The organization’s services are available 24 hours a day every day, throughout the US by texting 741741.
United Kingdom
Bullying UK Helpline: confidential and free helpline service (Phone: 0808-800-2222). Information, advices and resources at http://www.bullying.co.uk
Anti-Bullying Alliances: Resources and advices at http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/resources
Australia
Bullying. No Way! https://bullyingnoway.gov.au
Books:
The Bullying Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal with Social Aggression and Cyberbullying (by Raychelle Cassada Lohmann and Julia V. Taylor)—Instant Help; Workbook edition —ISBN: 978-1608824502
Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination (by Doug Meyer)—Rutgers University Press—ISBN: 978-0813573151
The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors (by Rebecca E. Williams and Julie S. Kraft)—New Harbinger Publications; Csm Wkb edition—ISBN: 978-1608823406
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Laksa Media Groups Inc. publishes issues-related general audience and literary experimental fiction and narrative non-fiction books. Our mission is to create opportunities to ‘pay forward’ and ‘give back’ through our publishing program. Our tag line is Read for a Cause, Write for a Cause, Help a Cause.
A portion of our net revenue from each book project goes to support a charitable organization, project or event. We do not deal with any charity that promotes politics, religions, discrimination, crime, hate, or inequality.
The charitable causes dear to our hearts are literacy, education, public libraries, elder care, mental health, affordable housing, and prevention of abuse and bullying.
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Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction
The anthologies in this series have been recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, Foreword Reviews, and Quill & Quire.
STRANGERS AMONG US
Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
2017 (Canadian SF&F) Aurora Award winner, 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Award winner
There’s a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness.
Original Stories by Kelley Armstrong, Suzanne Church, A.M. Dellamonica, Gemma Files, James Alan Gardner, Bev Geddes, Erika Holt, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Derwin Mak, Mahtab Narsimhan, Sherry Peters, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Lorina Stephens, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, Edward Willett , A.C. Wise, and Julie E. Czerneda (Introduction)
Benefit: Canadian Mental Health Association
THE SUM OF US
Tales of the Bonded and Bound
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
2018 (Canadian SF&F) Aurora Award winner, 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Award finalist
The greatest gift to us is caring. What would the world be like without someone to care for or to care with?
Original stories by Colleen Anderson, Charlotte Ashley, Brenda Cooper, Ian Creasey, A.M. Dellamonica, Bev Geddes, Claire Humphrey, Sandra Kasturi, Tyler Keevil, Juliet Marillier, Matt Moore, Heather Osborne, Nisi Shawl, Alex Shvartsman, Kate Story, Karina Sumner- Smith, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, James Van Pelt, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Edward Willett , Christie Yant, Caroline M. Yoachim, and Dominik Parisien (Introduction)
Benefit: Canadian Mental Health Association
WHERE THE STARS RISE
Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy
Edited by Lucas K. Law and Derwin Mak
2018 (Canadian SF&F) Aurora Award finalist, 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Award winner
Take a journey through Asia and beyond to explore identities, belonging, and choices.
Original stories by Anne Carly Abad, Deepak Bharathan, Joyce Chng, Miki Dare, S.B. Divya, Pamela Q. Fernandes, Calvin D. Jim, Minsoo Kang, Fonda Lee, Gabriela Lee, Karin Lowachee, Rati Mehrotra, E.C. Myers, Tony Pi, Angela Yuriko Smith, Priya Sridhar, Amanda Sun, Naru Dames Sundar, Jeremy Szal, Regina Kanyu Wang (translated by Shaoyan Hu), Diana Xin, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Ruhan Zhao, and Elsie Chapman (Introduction)
Benefit: Kids Help Phone
SHADES WITHIN US
Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
Come and discover the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose or are forced to leave home and familiar places.
Original stories by Vanessa Cardui, Elsie Chapman, Kate Heartfield, S.L. Huang, Tyler Keevil, Matthew Kressel, Rich Larson, Tonya Liburd, Karin Lowachee, Seanan McGuire, Brent Nichols, Julie Nováková, Heather Osborne, Sarah Raughley, Alex Shvartsman, Amanda Sun, Jeremy Szal, Hayden Trenholm, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Christie Yant & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, and Eric Choi & Gillian Clinton (Introduction)
Benefit: Mood Disorders Association & Alex Community Food Centre
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IT’S A DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL ILLNESS . . .
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Did you love Bursts of Fire? Then you should read Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders by Seanan McGuire et al.!
Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine assumptions and catch a glimpse of the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose or are forced to leave home and familiar places.
Migration. A transformation of time, place, and being . . .
WHO ARE THE SHADES WITHIN US?
We are called drifters, nomads. We are expatriates, evacuees, and pilgrims. We are colonists, aliens, explorers; strangers, visitors—intruders, conquerors—exiles, asylum seekers, and . . . outsiders.
An American father shields his son from Irish discrimination. A Chinese foreign student wrestles to safeguard her family at the expense of her soul. A college graduate is displaced by technology. A Nigerian high school student chooses between revenge and redemption. A bureaucrat parses the mystery of Taiwanese time travellers. A defeated alien struggles to assimilate into human culture. A Czechoslovakian actress confronts the German WWII invasion. A child crosses an invisible border wall. And many more.
Stories that transcend borders, generations, and cultures. Each is a glimpse into our human need in face of change: to hold fast to home, to tradition, to family; and yet to reach out, to strive for a better life.
Featuring Original Stories by Vanessa Cardui, Elsie Chapman, Kate Heartfield, S.L. Huang, Tyler Keevil, Matthew Kressel, Rich Larson,Tonya Liburd, Karin Lowachee, Seanan McGuire, Brent Nichols, Julie Nováková, Heather Osborne, Sarah Raughley, Alex Shvartsman, Amanda Sun, Jeremy Szal, Hayden Trenholm, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Christie Yant & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
With An Introduction by Eric Choi & Gillian Clinton
Edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
Anthologies in this series (Strangers Among Us, The Sum of Us, Where the Stars Rise, Shades Within Us) have been recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist (American Library Association), Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, Foreword Reviews, and Quill & Quire.
PRAISE FOR SHADES WITH US
"[A]ddresses issues surrounding migration and borders at a very poignant moment in history . . . despite being speculative, many of these stories read like they were ripped from present-day headlines . . . this collection do a great job of asking readers not only to reflect on their own lives but also to consider the lives of others." —Booklist
"An engaging collection of poignant travel through time and space. Highly recommended for its breadth of stories that look at having to leave home-or discover it." —Library Journal
"An intriguing addition to short story collections." —School Library Journal
"Even as they represent foreign existences, the problems remain the same—family, love, belonging, identity, survival . . . take a fresh approach to their subjects and conjure terrifying futures brought on by climate change, greed, and corruption of power. Political and daring, this collection adds to the future imagined by Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Aldous Huxley." --Foreword Reviews
"It invites us to use our speculative imagination to think through new ways of understanding selfhood in relation to the borders, boxes, and categories that are placed around us." --Speculating Canada (Derek Newman-Stille)
Also by Susan Forest
Addicted to Heaven
Bursts of Fire (Coming Soon)
Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction
Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
