SuperCanucks: An anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes

Short Fiction
Pub Date : March 21, 2026
5.5 X 8.5 in | 152 pgs
Trade Paperback : 9781997529057 
e-pub: 9781997529064 

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SuperCanucks features eleven stories that explore the usual superhero tropes while shining a spotlight on the unique corners of Canada. Not your typical big city superhero, but those who live in and around Canada’s more often overlooked locales—isolated small towns and rural outposts. These heroes battle unique Canadian dangers, including government bureaucracy and the overreaching neighbours in the south.

SuperCanucks features contributions by:

Praise for SuperCanucks

SuperCanucks is a joy from start to finish—a sharp, funny, and heartfelt collection that reimagines resourceful, stubborn, and unmistakably Canadian superheroes. These small-town heroes save the day from both world-ending threats and quiet disasters. Clever, compassionate, and loaded with Canadiana, these stories remind us that saving the world often starts with saving your neighbours.

 —Stephen Kotowych, Aurora Award-winning editor of Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction

Balancing sharp satire with genuine tenderness, these stories explore grief and transformation, solidarity and sacrifice, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people standing together. This delightfully Canadian collection of homegrown heroes powerfully celebrates our heart, soul, and diversity in a brilliant love letter to the places that, until now, never made it onto any superhero map."

—Mark Leslie, author of the Canadian Werewolf series

"SuperCanucks is an anthology that paints in all the colours, showing us many ways to be a hero. This is a deeply Canadian group of stories by some of our best short fiction writers. I enjoyed it immensely."

—Kate Heartfield, Aurora-award winning author of The Embroidered Book

About the Editors

Matthew D. Del Papa

Matthew D. Del Papa spent every Tuesday of his youth crisscrossing his hometown of Capreol in search of newly arrived comic books. He wore superhero-themed Underoos to a truly worrying age and still has his Batman (and Robin) lunchbox, backpack, and wristwatch. A graduate of Laurentian University, Matthew is a writer, editor, and self-publisher, and has released ten titles to some modest local acclaim. He joined the Sudbury Writers’ Guild in 2009 and his writing has appeared in Spooky Sudbury, Nothing Without Us Too, Mighty, and the forthcoming Sudbury Superstack: A Changing Skyline. His first book, a collection of humorous essays titled Jerry Lewis Told Me I Was Going to Die, was released in 2023 through Latitude 46 Publishing.

Andy W. Taylor

Andy W. Taylor grew up as a teen in the 1980s reading Alpha Flight comics and was excited to see Canadian superheroes represented for the first time. Andy was a reader and writer of speculative fiction from an early age thanks in no small part to his mother’s frequent trips to the public library with her kids. He’s a member of the Sudbury Writers’ Guild, a graduate of the Viable Paradise writing workshop and Playwright’s Junction workshop, and a member of CODEX writer’s forum. Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Andy currently lives in Sudbury with his family. His fiction has appeared in On Spec Magazine, FictionVale, Polar Borealis, Sudbury Ink Anthology, and on the streets of Sudbury. He has a new poem and non-fiction piece coming out in 2024 in the anthology Sudbury Superstack: A Changing Skyline.