Everything Is Awful And You’re A Terrible Person

The debut collection of fiction from poet and editor Daniel Zomparelli isn’t a daring adventure into a new genre for the author. Rather, it’s a natural complement to the niche he has created with his ... Read More »

July 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Mariner’s Guide to Self Sabotage

By Bill Gaston

The characters in Bill Gaston’s new story collection are almost all haunted by thoughts of what might have been, or else perched on the verge of making mistakes they’ll rue for years to come. But ... Read More »

July 4, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Glass Beads

By Dawn Dumont

Although Glass Beads is billed as a collection of short stories, it works excellently as a panoramic, polyphonic Bildungsroman, following the lives of four Indigenous friends from the early 1990s to the late 2000s. The ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Life on Mars

By Lori McNulty

None of the stories in Lori McNulty’s debut collection is set on the planet Mars, but nevertheless that destination is invoked in nearly all of them, most often as a way of alluding to feelings ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

A Plea for Constant Motion

By Paul Carlucci

“I found this photograph / underneath the broken picture glass.” So begins “Photograph,” a 1993 song written and performed by R.E.M. and Natalie Merchant that describes the sensation of coming across an old portrait and ... Read More »

April 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Old World and Other Stories

By Cary Fagan

April 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Dark and Other Love Stories

By Deborah Willis

Provocative commentary decrying the death of certain literary forms has become so common that it practically constitutes its own genre. Poetry dies several times a year, and short fiction often seems to be on life ... Read More »

March 9, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

All the Beloved Ghosts

By Alison MacLeod

March 9, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories

By Kaitlin Tremblay (ed.); Kelsi Morris (ed.)

Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay did not set out to create a traditional anthology of monster stories. In the introduction to the 13th instalment in the Exile Anthology series, the editors write about the monsters ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Two Man Tent

By Robert Chafe

As an accomplished theatre director and prolific playwright (his stage adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams plays the National Arts Centre in 2017), Newfoundland’s Robert Chafe has always had a penchant for ... Read More »

November 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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