News & Extras

A Mariner’s Guide to Self-Sabotage by Bill Gaston

Sep 4, 2018

In Bill Gaston’s short story “Hello:,” the narrator tells us that, according to some Tibetan Buddhist teachings, guardian spirits called Protectors exist, whose “sole purpose is to promote our wakefulness”

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The Heavy Bear by Tim Bowling

Aug 17, 2018

The Heavy Bear is Tim Bowling’s latest novel and like In the Suicide’s Library (2004) its focus is on the ghosts of great male artists.

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Children Shouldn’t Use Knives by Shirley Camia

Aug 9, 2018

Shirley Camia’s eleven spare, imagistic poems are so very slight—wispy, flickering at the edges of what children perceive and remember.

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Prairie Fire news

PF @ 40 Part 3: My Experience with the Early Sparks of Prairie Fire By Armin Wiebe

Aug 3, 2018

So it’s the 1970s and I have this crazy notion that I will be a writer. In Manitoba.

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Prairie Fire news

PF @ 40 Part 2: Galley-Proofs Beyond Killer Highway by Carolyn Creed

Jul 27, 2018

One might think an hour’s drive toward editorial work would prove as easy as breath taken and expelled, but no—

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The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories by Paulo da Costa

Jul 25, 2018

The author’s subtitle, “60 Sudden Fictions,” illuminates much of what a reader experiences in delving into Midwife of Torment:

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