Anthologies

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

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

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, eds.

Author Nalo Hopkinson and science fiction scholar Uppinder Mehan have cultivated this anthology of new short stories from emerging and established postcolonial writers all over the world. The 19 unique stories here are framed by ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology

By Allan Forrie, Patrick O’Rourke, Glen Sorestad, eds.

For decades, Saskatchewan-based Thistledown Press has been publishing poetry collections by well-known and lesser-known Canadian writers. The editors of In the Clear have exploited the press’s archival wealth to compile a large anthology whose purpose ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Selected Stories

By Alice Munro

We are for some reason as a people given to the extraordinarily proficient creation of short things. At sketch comedy we are unparalleled, and our short films, live-action and animated, far surpass the quality of ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant

By Mavis Gallant

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Midnight Hour: Canadian Accounts of Eerie Experiences

By John Robert Colombo

Is Canada a scary place? Our nation’s “master gatherer,” John Robert Colombo, certainly seems to think so. The veteran anthologizer and storyteller has already compiled a vast array of books on Canadian examples of the ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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