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Bleeding Light by Rob Benvie
Aug 18, 2023
Content warning: gun violence in a school (there are dark themes and drug use throughout, but the most shocking, triggering event is a school shooting that is mostly averted but could be very triggering) Rob Benvie is the author of two previous novels, Maintenance and Safety of War. In addition to writing prose, he also […]
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Moments of Happiness by Neils Hav, Translated by Per Brask and Patrick Friesen
Jul 28, 2023
The cover art for Neils Hav’s Moments of Happiness features a wall with wallpaper and paint partially peeled away, revealing layer after layer of understory. In keeping with this image, Hav opens the collection with the line: “The battered inside of the cupboard under the kitchen sink / makes me happy.” (13) He goes on […]
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Dreaming Home by Lucian Childs
Jun 26, 2023
Lucian Childs’ short stories have been widely published in various literary journals throughout the US and Canada. Dreaming Home is his debut book-length work of fiction, divided into six chapters that focus on different characters spanning a time period of about forty years. So is it a short story collection, a novel in stories, or […]
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“Museum of Winter” by Willy Blomme Takes Second Place in Fiction at National Magazine Awards
Jun 5, 2023
A big ‘ol congrats to Will Blomme whose fiction piece “The Museum of Winter” took second place at the National Magazine Awards! Great Job, Willy! And also a shout out to Duncan Mercredi whose poem “Misipawistik” received honourable mention! Way to go, Duncan! Both pieces can be found in our winter 2021-2022 issue, which can […]
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Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, Eds. Andrew Chesham and Laura Farina
May 18, 2023
Books about the craft of writing often make big promises. Typically written for an audience of aspiring authors who long for the guidance of an expert, a lot of writing craft books insist that they hold the secret key to helping unlock the novels, stories, poems, and memoirs that we carry within our hearts, just […]
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I Want to Tell You Love: A Critical Edition by Milton Acorn & bill bissett
Apr 19, 2023
After fifty-seven years in archival gestation, Milton Acorn and bill bissett’s I Want to Tell You Love has finally, like a letter lost and deferred in the mail, reached the ears of its public. The work first took shape as a manuscript in 1965 when Acorn and bissett met in Vancouver: Canada’s most quintessentially postmodern […]
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