Fiction: Short

Bats or Swallows

Montreal writer Teri Vlassopoulos’s debut collection contains stories about characters coming of age, suffering through severed relationships, and searching for their own identities. The author mixes kitchen-sink realism with elementary philosophy to portray the confusion, ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Beggar’s Garden

By Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s debut collection of nine linked stories is dazzling. Drawing on his experience working in a homeless shelter in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Christie explores the intense humanity of people living on the margins of ... Read More »

February 7, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Young in Their Country

By Richard Cumyn

Richard Cumyn is a writer who doesn’t like to be boxed in. The stories collected here resist pigeonholing: they are narrated by young and old voices belonging to men and women, Jews, Muslims, and old-money ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Are You Married to a Psychopath?

By Nadine Bismuth; Donald Winkler, trans.

Quebec writer Nadine Bismuth covers well-traversed ground in her second short story collection: the 10 stories, primarily narrated by female characters, explore various aspects of romantic relationships. The subject matter may be nothing new, but ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Punishing Ugly Children

By Darryl Joel Berger

Darryl Joel Berger’s debut short story collection is filled with distinctive characters, many pining for luck amidst bad situations and mile-long losing streaks. Whether his characters get what they want is ultimately less important than ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark

By Christopher Meades

While the label ChickLit may seem condescending to some, and the genre itself – which typically involves the adventures of emotionally immature shopaholic women – demeaning, things look even worse on the other side of ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Hair Wreath and Other Stories

By Halli Villegas

Ghosts and other mysterious forces intrude on the characters in the new collection of dark fiction from Toronto-based writer (and Tightrope Books publisher) Halli Villegas. Several of the stories involve homes – especially sterile, charmless ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Missed Her

By Ivan E. Coyote

Relationships. Clothes. Food. Haircuts. Little dogs. Cab rides. Sex. All of these things carry heavy meaning in the writing of Ivan E. Coyote. Her specialty, and ultimately her strength, lies in putting the simple, subtle ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010

By Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe’s reputation is based on his novels and non-fiction, which have focused on Aboriginal themes and his Mennonite heritage. Though he is not widely known as a short story writer, a half-century’s worth of ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sarah Court

By Craig Davidson

Fredericton-based writer Craig Davidson’s 2006 book The Preserve, written under the pseudonym Patrick Lestewka, was a horror novel set in northern Canada. Under his own name, he published the more literary Rust and Bone in ... Read More »

October 12, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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