Mad Hope

There’s a voyeuristic quality to Heather Birrell’s stories. The Toronto author seems to have mastered the art of writing about universal themes and subjects – marriage, family, motherhood, death, sex – in a manner both ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

People Who Disappear

By Alex Leslie

The title of Alex Leslie’s affecting first collection of stories also serves as a unifying theme. Set in towns and cities, and along the winding coastal highways and obscure logging roads of British Columbia, these ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Dead Are More Visible

By Steven Heighton

The title story in Steven Heighton’s third collection features a man trying to move a huge stone with his mind. He stands in a cemetery-cum-public-park and contends that the thousands of buried dead want the ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Complete Lockpick Pornography

By Joey Comeau

It would be easy to assess Joey Comeau’s The Complete Lockpick Pornography as a simple exploration of violence and sexuality. The volume is certainly semi-pornographic and, depending on your personal or literary boundaries, refreshingly subversive. ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Western Taxidermy

By Barb Howard

Alberta author Barb Howard has a novel (Whiplock), a novella (Notes for Monday), and a young adult novel (The Dewpoint Show) under her belt, to say nothing of the more than two dozen short stories ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

All the Voices Cry

By Alice Petersen

Montreal writer and critic Alice Petersen has produced a first collection of stories that, in its depth and quiet wisdom, is reminiscent of the work of another famous Canadian writer named Alice. The 17 stories ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Juliet Stories

By Carrie Snyder

Like her first book, Hair Hat, Carrie Snyder’s sophomore offering is a collection of linked short stories. Here they are arranged in a novelistic arc, following the titular heroine from a childhood caught between foreign ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Radio Belly

By Buffy Cram

Among the impressive lineup of talent assembled in the 2010 speculative fiction anthology Darwin’s Bastards, a pair of stories by a couple of newcomers stood out: Matthew J. Trafford’s “The Divinity Gene” and Buffy Cram’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ A Book of Great Worth

By Dave Margoshes

It takes some serious chops for an author to write a family memoir in which he or she is not the main character. It takes even bigger chops to use the constituent parts of a ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ajjiit: Dark Dreams of the Ancient Arctic

By Sean A. Tinsley and Rachel A. Qitsualik; Andrew Trabbold, illus.

With Ajjiit, husband-and-wife team Sean A. Tinsley and Rachel A. Qitsualik, who individually have published many short stories and articles on Inuit cultural lore and shamanism, have employed traditional Inuit tales to create a collection ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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