Anthologies

One on One: Favourite Conversations and the Stories Behind Them

In One on One, Peter Mansbridge, one of Canada’s best-known TV journalists, collects his most illuminating, engaging, and inspiring interviews from the past 10 years with more than 30 of the world’s most prominent politicians, ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Anthologies

Write Turns: New Directions in Canadian Fiction

By Alison Acheson et al

This anthology showcases graduates of UBC’s widely praised creative writing program. All of the 15 authors in Write Turns are recent graduates of the course, all have had books published in the last five years ... Read More »

October 14, 2009 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality

By Drew Hayden Taylor, ed.

If you’ve ever wondered about the relative abundance of pubic hair among women and men of the First Nations, you don’t have to feel alone anymore. Me Sexy, an anthology of 13 essays on the ... Read More »

March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Four Letter Word: Original Love Letters

By Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter, eds.

While the traditional handwritten love letter may have lost its preeminence in the electronic age, editors Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have attempted to resurrect the art of literary lovemaking with this anthology. Each of ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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

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