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29 Mennonite Poets—Edited by Clarise Foster
I am not Mennonite. Nor is Clarise Foster, the editor who curated 29 Mennonite Poets, the first comprehensive collection of Mennonite poetry since the publication of Half in the Sun: An Anthology of Mennonite Writing (Ronsdale Press, 2006) and A Capella: Mennonite...
Bibioasis’s 2018 “A Ghost Story for Christmas” Collection
Biblioasis and famous Canadian cartoonist Seth have once again released three Victorian ghost stories just in time for the holiday season. These stories are short enough to be read in one sitting, or read aloud. Seth’s illustrations throughout are in keeping with the...
Looking for Light by Susan Ioannou
Susan Ioannou’s Looking for Light charms and delights. It also feels like a final statement, as if it’s a summing up and a glancing back across the creative process. Chris Faiers’s Foreword suggests one pathway into the three sections of Looking for Light. He...
Grandmother, Laughing by Armin Wiebe
How a life is measured can take a lifetime of contemplation and along the way there are many questions, some that cannot be answered. What do we learn? What do we feel we have accomplished, if anything? And what is left afterwards for others to discover? Two...
Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from my Father by Heather O’Neill
Heather O’Neill’s Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father begins with a piece of fatherly advice that must have sounded, to the young budding writer, as a challenge: “Lesson One, Never Keep a Diary”(3). O’Neill tells us that while chronicling the daily...
The Fairy Tale Museum by Susannah M. Smith
You find yourself in the forest. You know the one. It’s the forest where the stories you read as a child take place. A forest so green and thick, that it’s positively brimming with life, with magic. Up ahead, you see a grand building, majestic amongst the trees, yet...