Works by
Nairne Holtz
(Writer)

Anthologies

• No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian (2006), Edited with Catherine Lake -- Finalist 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies
  Elegant tomboys, academic femmes, and small-town kisses; encounters on the road and in the bar; questions arising from an in-between culture; cane stalks, sake, fresh-cut flowers, home insemination, and hotel-room orgasms.
  
  Crossing race, culture, and gender constraints, No Margins leads the reader through the lushness of lesbian life and the vastness of the Canadian experience.
  
  
  No Margins is a stellar short fiction collection featuring fifteen of Canada's finest contemporary writers-all of whom include lesbian identity as one piece of their selves and their work.

Fiction

• This One’s Going to Last Forever (In progress)

• The Skin Beneath (2007) -- Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction;  Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery; Shortlisted for Quebec’s McAuslan First Book Prize
  Five years ago, Sam O'Connor's sister Chloe died in New York, just another accidental overdose at the Chelsea Hotel. But now, someone has sent Sam a mysterious postcard claiming that Chloe actually died of gunshot wounds and that she was investigating a political conspiracy. Sam has to find out what really happened. As she navigates the twisted trail between fact and fantasy, she is forced to confront some difficult truths about her sister and, more frightening, about herself.

See also:

• Blithe House Quarterly (Spring 2006)
  See “Phantoms"

• Fantasy: Untrue Stories of Lesbian Passion (2007), Barbara Johnson and Therese Szymanski, eds.
  See "Garters and Boxers"

• Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love  (2006), Claude Lalumière and Elise Moser, eds.
  See "No Parking"

• Queer Shorts (2006), Maria Angeline, ed.
  Originally appeared in Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction, n. 11, http://velvetmafia.com/11/holtz.php
  See "When Gay is the New Straight"

• Hot & Bothered 4: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire (2004), Karen X. Tulchinsky, ed.
  See "Too Cool for School"

• Back to Basics: A Butch/Femme Anthology (2004), Therese Szymanski, ed.
  See "Miss August"

• Skin Deep 2 (2004), Nicole Foster, ed.
  See "Fucking for Real"

• Delicate Friction (2003, (Out of print)
  See "Most Valuable Player"