Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

By Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens is a Montreal-bred writer of Irish descent who has taught in California and currently divides his time between Maine and Texas. In his fiction, this roving biography finds expression in acute attention to ... Read More »

December 16, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Marnie Woodrow

With Heyday, novelist and playwright Marnie Woodrow has deftly threaded two parallel narratives from very different time periods. The contemporary half of her story ambitiously relies on the inner thoughts of Joss, a recovering alcoholic ... Read More »

November 16, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By June Hutton

Corpses, feral pigs, swarming moths, the reek of urine, and the “arsenic gloom of midday” represent only a handful of the distressing things Lila Sinclair encounters in 1922 Black Mountain, B.C., an imaginary company town ... Read More »

October 22, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels