Anthologies

Queer View Mirror 2: Lesbian and Gay Short Short Fiction

By James C. Johnstone,Karen X. Tulchinsky, eds.

It is unlikely 100 fine short stories are written per year. The form requires distillation and hard work, the exclusion of the irrelevant and microscopic enhancements of what’s crucial. Queer View Mirror 2 is a ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Penguin Book of Canadian Women’s Short Stories

By Lisa Moore, ed.

he Penguin Book of Canadian Women’s Short StoriesLisa Moore, ed.; $32 cloth 0-670-065552-8, 360 pp., 6 x 9, Penguin Canada, Sept. The only inexplicable thing about this superb anthology of writing by Canadian women is ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life

By Constance Rooke, ed.

Reading this collection of essays and memoirs on the vagaries, challenges, and joys of the writing life, a composite portrait of the Canadian Author slowly emerges. Curious, slightly earnest, lovingly self-absorbed but concerned with the ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing

By Donna Bailey Nurse

“Literature has been the means through which I have learned to understand who I am and who I might be,” writes Donna Bailey Nurse in the introduction to this, the first major anthology of black ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

Me Funny

By Drew Hayden Taylor, ed.

It is a paradoxical truth that explaining why something is funny is intrinsically unfunny. It is perhaps for this reason that Drew Hayden Taylor, the editor and compiler of Me Funny, a motley collection of ... Read More »

January 30, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

By Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, eds.

Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman selected 23 of the best recent works of Canadian speculative short fiction and poetry, from both established and emerging writers, moulding an anthology that places the genre firmly alongside fantastical ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution

By Judy Rebick

At a time when it seems the women’s movement in Canada has all but evaporated, along comes a book to remind us what great strides this country’s feminists achieved in the latter part of the ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Book of Love Letters: Canadian Kinship, Friendship, and Romance

By Paul and Audrey Grescoe

Paul and Audrey Grescoe’s lively and emotional new collection, The Book of Love Letters, is like a big box of the very best chocolate. The letters are rich with emotion and wit, but they should ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies

Revenge: A Noir Anthology About Getting Even

By Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

It’s tempting to think of Insomniac Press’s series of noir fiction anthologies (of which Revenge is the third, after Iced and Hard Boiled Love) as a kind of corrective to the swaths of mushy, middlebrow ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Story-Wallah!: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction

By Shyam Selvadurai, ed.

It’s a shame the word “diaspora” isn’t more commonly used. Because as Sri-Lankan born Toronto novelist Shyam Selvadurai points out in his excellent introduction, diaspora – with its adjective “diasporic,” both from the Greek for ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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