★ Gifts for the One Who Comes After

Following her 2012 debut collection, Hair Side, Flesh Side (which won her a British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer), Helen Marshall returns with 17 disquieting excursions into dark and darkly funny places. In the dimly ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Nothing Looks Familiar

By Shawn Syms

The stories in the debut collection from Toronto writer, editor, and critic (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Shawn Syms, draw back the comforter to reveal the tattered, blood-stained sheets beneath. That might seem like a forced ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia; ed.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia knows apocalypses. Her previous anthology for Exile Editions, Dead North, featured an entire volume of them, brought on by a blight of zombies. Her latest carries on telling stories of Canadians on the ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

★ Stone Mattress

By Margaret Atwood

Before opening Margaret Atwood’s new collection, ponder the subtitle. Tales, not stories, are what is on offer. As Atwood explains in the acknowledgements, short stories often work “within the boundaries of social realism” whereas “tale” ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Wallflowers

By Eliza Robertson

The debut short-fiction collection by B.C. author Eliza Robertson is carefully composed – perhaps too much so. The collection’s 17 stories – including “My Sister Sang,” which was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Freedom in American Songs

By Kathleen Winter

With her new collection of short stories, Montreal-based writer Kathleen Winter (whose 2010 debut novel, Annabel, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Orange Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary Award) returns to the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Chez l’Arabe

By Mireille Silcoff

Though this collection of short stories is the first work of fiction from Montreal’s Mireille Silcoff, the author’s name may already be familiar to readers. Silcoff is a regular National Post columnist and has previously ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Irregular Verbs

By Matthew Johnson

In her introduction to Matthew Johnson’s new collection of short stories, Helen Marshall refers to the “perfect language” writers dream of: “Here is a writer who … can make something new,” Marshall says of Johnson. ... Read More »

July 21, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sweet Affliction

By Anna Leventhal

The 15 stories that make up Journey Prize nominee Anna Leventhal’s debut collection, set in contemporary and recent-past Montreal, are about people who stumble and struggle and don’t always do the right thing. Most of ... Read More »

July 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Juliet Was a Surprise

By Bill Gaston

Novelist, dramatist, poet, and short-story writer Bill Gaston is a quadruple threat, but it’s with his stories that he’s had the most measurable success (his 2002 collection, Mount Appetite, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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★ Gifts for the One Who Comes After

Nothing Looks Familiar

Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse

★ Stone Mattress

Wallflowers

★ The Freedom in American Songs

★ Chez l’Arabe

★ Irregular Verbs

★ Sweet Affliction

★ Juliet Was a Surprise

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