News & Extras
A History of the Theories of Rain by Stephen Collis
Oct 13, 2022
There is a telling line in Stephen Collis’s 2021 collection, A History of the Theories of Rain—in fact, there are many. But for me, the line that captures the book’s central concern, the daunting, infuriatingly impersonal disaster of climate change bearing down upon us, appears in the title poem: “… maybe the cosmos doesn’t do […]
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The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont, translated from French by J.C. Sutcliffe
Sep 27, 2022
The Music Game would have shattered me when I was twenty-five. At thirty-two, this book still stings me like salt in a wound that hasn’t truly closed. Originally published in French in 2017 and winner of several prizes including the prestigious Ringuet Prize, Stéfanie Clermont’s debut story collection The Music Game follows childhood friends Céline, […]
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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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