Fiction: Short

Tales of the Mountains and the Sea

Dania Idriss’s Tales of the Mountains and the Sea is a cross-genre debut collection in which characters’ lives, beliefs, and actions are interwoven with Middle Eastern folklore and superstition. In five stories set in Lebanon ... Read More »

May 20, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Weird Babies

By Jaclyn Desforges

Pleasure and danger commingle within the pages of Weird Babies, the striking and provocative fiction debut by RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award–winning poet and children’s author Jaclyn Desforges. So do realism and the absurd. Over ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Smash and Grab

By Mark Anthony Jarman

The first line of “The Bailiffs Arrive with Their Grey Eyes,” the last story in Mark Anthony Jarman’s latest collection, compares the incidents about to unfold to “some forgotten folk tale.” It’s a particularly appropriate ... Read More »

January 28, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories

By Terese Mason Pierre (ed.)

Ten contemporary Black writers show up boldly on the pages of a new anthology of short fiction, As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories. Traditionally published speculative fiction, with a few exceptions such as ... Read More »

October 8, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Reviews

A Quiet Disappearance

By Rabindranath Maharaj

Leila Marshy’s collection of stories, My Thievery of the People, is full of incisive political commentary on people and how we interact with and hide from each other. In this new collection, the story settings ... Read More »

June 25, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

My Thievery of the People

By Leila Marshy

June 25, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Here

By Heidi Wicks

In “Bubbles,” the first story in Here, the new short story collection (more on that momentarily) from St. John’s, Newfoundland, writer Heidi Wicks, Brenda returns (in a vague disgrace) from working in Montreal to her ... Read More »

June 4, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Tunnel Island

By Bill Gaston

In the first story of Tunnel Island, the new collection of short fiction from Gabriola Island, B.C., writer Bill Gaston, readers are introduced to the titular Gulf Island that forms the setting for the collection. ... Read More »

April 23, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food

By J.J. Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella (eds.)

The future. Since at least the publication of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine in 1895, it’s always right over there. That’s true for me, absolutely. I grew up with space-age Tang – flavour crystals that astronauts mixed ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Food & Drink, Reviews