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Stoop City by Kristyn Dunnion
Aug 23, 2022
In Stoop City, novelist and short story writer, Kristyn Dunnion, has accomplished every writer’s goal, delivering thirteen fully realized stories that feel for all the world like real life. Set mainly in Toronto, they feature a remarkable range of styles, voices and characters. We meet college students, activists, upscale strivers, homeless kids, junkies, prostitutes and […]
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The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman ( now Hegele)
Jul 21, 2022
Note: author now goes by Sydney Hegele “Who’s ready to earn their beaver badge?” (20) The brutal enchantment of old-world folktales meets the mundane horrors of small-town Ontario in Sydney Hegele’s debut story collection The Pump. With a fast-paced plot and haunting style, Hegele takes the reader on a journey through a small town known […]
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Best Canadian Stories 2021, Edited by Diane Schoemperlen
Jun 7, 2022
Each year, Windsor, Ontario-based publisher Biblioasis releases a series of anthologies collecting the best new poetry, non-fiction and fiction produced by Canadian writers. Since 1971, these collections have offered readers an overview of the Canadian literary landscape by curating some of the country’s most notable works, including pieces by literary greats like Alice Munro and […]
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Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road by Marion Quednau
May 4, 2022
I feel for the women in Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road, an excellent short story collection by BC author, Marion Quednau. Vive la différence! does not always apply. Paired with stereotypically insensitive paradigms of manhood, these women—from whose points of view the stories are mostly told—are reduced to bickering with their polar opposites or […]
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Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris
Apr 14, 2022
Sylvia Legris’ highly anticipated sixth book of poetry, Garden Physic, provides a welcome tonic to the apocalyptic bent of much current ecopoetics. Rather than producing a state of self-loathing and existential panic in readers, the collection works towards a nuanced awareness of the floral world and our dependencies on it, both imaginative and material. While […]
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Following Sea by Lauren Carter
Mar 30, 2022
Following Sea, the title of Lauren Carter’s 2019 poetry collection, is a nautical term that means a boat is moving in the same direction as the waves. But it also describes a sea pushing from behind, a sea that can cause a vessel to swamp or plow under the wave just ahead—a fitting title for […]
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