Fiction: Short

By the Book: Stories and Pictures

Although most widely known for her novels and short-story collections, Diane Schoemperlen won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 1998 for Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures, in which prose and found images ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Alphabetique: 26 Characteristic Fictions

By Kara Kosaka; Molly Peacock; illus.

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Some Extremely Boring Drives

By Marguerite Pigeon

Many of the characters who inhabit B.C. writer Marguerite Pigeon’s first short-story collection live at the edges and extremes, set adrift in some way from their homes and travelling toward the unknown. Themes of escape, ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What I Want to Tell Goes Like This

By Matt Rader

Matt Rader is an acclaimed writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction whose work has appeared in numerous journals. He’s been nominated for the Journey Prize and two Pushcart Prizes, and his story “All This Was ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Beginning with the Mirror: Ten Stories about Love, Desire, and Moving Between Worlds

By Peter Dubé

Montreal author Peter Dubé’s new short-story collection affirms his place at the forefront of gay surrealist fiction. Dubé, who edited the queer men’s surrealist anthology Madder Love, confidently blends the strange, fantastical, and occult into ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Gifts for the One Who Comes After

By Helen Marshall

Following her 2012 debut collection, Hair Side, Flesh Side (which won her a British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer), Helen Marshall returns with 17 disquieting excursions into dark and darkly funny places. In the dimly ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Nothing Looks Familiar

By Shawn Syms

The stories in the debut collection from Toronto writer, editor, and critic (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Shawn Syms, draw back the comforter to reveal the tattered, blood-stained sheets beneath. That might seem like a forced ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia; ed.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia knows apocalypses. Her previous anthology for Exile Editions, Dead North, featured an entire volume of them, brought on by a blight of zombies. Her latest carries on telling stories of Canadians on the ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

★ Stone Mattress

By Margaret Atwood

Before opening Margaret Atwood’s new collection, ponder the subtitle. Tales, not stories, are what is on offer. As Atwood explains in the acknowledgements, short stories often work “within the boundaries of social realism” whereas “tale” ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Wallflowers

By Eliza Robertson

The debut short-fiction collection by B.C. author Eliza Robertson is carefully composed – perhaps too much so. The collection’s 17 stories – including “My Sister Sang,” which was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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