★ The Freedom in American Songs

With her new collection of short stories, Montreal-based writer Kathleen Winter (whose 2010 debut novel, Annabel, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Orange Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary Award) returns to the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Chez l’Arabe

By Mireille Silcoff

Though this collection of short stories is the first work of fiction from Montreal’s Mireille Silcoff, the author’s name may already be familiar to readers. Silcoff is a regular National Post columnist and has previously ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Irregular Verbs

By Matthew Johnson

In her introduction to Matthew Johnson’s new collection of short stories, Helen Marshall refers to the “perfect language” writers dream of: “Here is a writer who … can make something new,” Marshall says of Johnson. ... Read More »

July 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sweet Affliction

By Anna Leventhal

The 15 stories that make up Journey Prize nominee Anna Leventhal’s debut collection, set in contemporary and recent-past Montreal, are about people who stumble and struggle and don’t always do the right thing. Most of ... Read More »

July 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Juliet Was a Surprise

By Bill Gaston

Novelist, dramatist, poet, and short-story writer Bill Gaston is a quadruple threat, but it’s with his stories that he’s had the most measurable success (his 2002 collection, Mount Appetite, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

How Loveta Got Her Baby

By Nicholas Ruddock

Nicholas Ruddock follows his 2010 debut novel, The Parabolist (which was nominated for the Toronto Book Awards and an Arthur Ellis Award), with a collection of linked stories set in and around St. John’s. There ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

David Foster Wallace Ruined My Suicide

By D.D. Miller

D.D. Miller’s debut story collection will probably raise a few eyebrows with its shamelessly provocative title. And for the most part, these tales live up to that promised audaciousness, even as Miller runs a familiar ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Paradise & Elsewhere

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page and C.P. Boyko, two B.C.–based authors at different stages of their careers, return this season with short-fiction collections offering radically divergent approaches to the notions of storytelling and storytellers. In Paradise & Elsewhere, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Novelists

By C.P.Boyko

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Strange Bedfellows: An Anthology of Political Science Fiction

By Hayden Trenholm (ed.)

Science fiction,” states editor Hayden Trenholm, “contains within its central premises a profoundly political stance.” Strange Bedfellows, an anthology teeming with aliens, warfare, and dystopian hell-scapes, seeks to support this idea. Gathering submissions from seven ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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