Fiction: Short

Avenue of Champions

The debut short-story collection from Métis-Ukrainian writer and educator Conor Kerr, Avenue of Champions, is an account of disenfranchisement and displacement, both historical and contemporary. Its historical roots lie in the late 19th century, “when ... Read More »

October 27, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Householders

By Kate Cayley

The last word in Householders, the affecting new collection of stories from Toronto writer Kate Cayley, is “home” – appropriate for a book that so assiduously interrogates notions of identity and belonging. In it, characters ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Glorious Frazzled Beings

By Angélique Lalonde

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Pump

By Sydney Warner Brooman

In their debut short-story collection, Grimsby, Ontario-born writer Sydney Warner Brooman takes us on a twisted journey into a small town where malaise will eat you alive. The swampy landscape of The Pump is true ... Read More »

September 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Disintegration in Four Parts

By Devon Code; Emily Anglin; Jean Marc Ah-Sen; Lee Henderson

The novellas that make up Disintegration in Four Parts connect to the concept of purity, which, like this book, defies immediate, steady categorization. Rather than relying upon the theme as a plot device, each of ... Read More »

June 14, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Octopus Has Three Hearts

By Rachel Rose

As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Tainna: The Unseen Ones

By Norma Dunning

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Stoop City

By Kristyn Dunnion

What an assured and attractively variegated collection of stories. Set in Toronto and small-town southern Ontario, Kristyn Dunnion’s 13 short pieces are marvellous feats of pacing and styling bolstered by vibrant characterization and enviable turns ... Read More »

December 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Dominoes at the Crossroads

By Kaie Kellough

Kaie Kellough’s second book of fiction, the story collection Dominoes at the Crossroads, follows the subversive, polyphonic trail of his novel, Accordéon (a finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award), and his recent book ... Read More »

September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction

By André Alexis

The epigraph to André Alexis’s novella, “A,” first published in 2013, is by Margaret Laurence: “Then things become all at once strange.” It’s a fitting sentiment given Alexis’s penchant to allow his fiction to drift ... Read More »

September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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