Fiction: Short

★ Boo

As a child in Illinois, Oliver is nicknamed Boo because of his ghostly, albino-like pallor. We meet Oliver in a branch of heaven known as Town, where all the inhabitants have died at age 13. ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Daydreams of Angels

By Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill – whose first book, Lullabies for Little Criminals, won CBC’s Canada Reads competition in 2007 and whose second, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize – ... Read More »

April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Street Symphony

By Rachel Wyatt

This is the fifth short-story collection from Rachel Wyatt, Member of the Order of Canada, former Banff Centre director of writing programs, and author of numerous novels and plays. Unsurprisingly, Street Symphony is an accomplished ... Read More »

March 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome

By Megan Gail Coles

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome marks a potent fiction debut for Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles. These 16 stories are often rather brief, but rarely short on impact. The diverse characters are united in ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

By Mark Anthony Jarman

It’s unfortunate, but the qualities that make Mark Anthony Jarman the most interesting, if not the best, short-story writer in Canada today – in particular his unorthodox, experimental approach to style and form – are ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Cover Before Striking

By Priscila Uppal

Toronto poet, playwright, and fiction writer Priscila Uppal has the kind of wild imagination that constantly makes me think she might lose control in her stories, but she doesn’t. Instead, these 13 pieces – previously ... Read More »

January 19, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By the Book: Stories and Pictures

By Diane Schoemperlen

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

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