Writing Without Direction: 10½ Short Stories by Canadian Authors Under 30

By Coralee Leroux and Troy Cunningham, eds.

The 11 stories in Writing Without Direction deal with a range of issues, from the picayune (university roommates who drive each other crazy) to the much more serious (a mother’s boyfriend who sexually abuses her ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

I Still Don’t Even Know You

By Michelle Berry

Though the best stories in Michelle Berry’s collection I Still Don’t Even Know You begin with predictable set-ups, they go well past the point of familiarity and push the boundaries of a reader’s comfort. Readers ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

This Cake Is for the Party

By Sarah Selecky

One of the great joys of reading a collection of short fiction is the opportunity to experience a writer at play. Characters, themes, absurdities, and moods that could become overwhelming in a novel are somehow ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead

By Nancy Kilpatrick, ed.

With stories from genre veterans Kelley Armstrong and Tanya Huff, as well as a slew of newcomers, Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead is a worthy anthology for vampire lovers. Nancy Kilpatrick is no ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Greedy Little Eyes

By Billie Livingston

Billie Livingston’s first collection of short fiction exhibits her trademark snappy wit while delving into the sadder aspects of life: mental illness, family breakdown, and abuse. The 10 stories in this collection are heartbreaking in ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Still Missing

By Chevy Stevens

Annie O’Sullivan has good reason to complain during her regularly scheduled therapy sessions. But the thirtysomething’s revelations go far beyond Portnoy-style gripes. Where once her hometown, the tiny Vancouver Island hamlet of Clayton Falls, was ... Read More »

July 22, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ronald Reagan, My Father

By Brian Joseph Davis

Ronald Reagan, My Father, the third book by Toronto author and multi-disciplinary artist Brian Joseph Davis, continues to mine fixations that will be familiar to his readers: pop culture, politics, film, and cultural theory. In ... Read More »

May 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Darwin’s Bastards

By Zsuzsi Gartner, ed.

Canada may be the only country in the world where it’s not considered a liability to publish an anthology of dystopian and science-fiction stories that contains hardly any contributions from authors specializing in those genres. ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Chimerascope

By Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith opens his new collection of stories with a cheeky definition of the imaginary titular object: “An instrument, in book form, used for viewing a disparate (but hopefully, not grotesquely so) collection of impossible ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Welcome to Canada

By David Carpenter

The title of Warren Cariou’s foreword to Welcome to Canada, a volume of David Carpenter’s new and selected stories, is “You Are Now Entering Carpenter Country.” Carpenter’s fictional landscape – located mainly in the outposts ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Writing Without Direction: 10½ Short Stories by Canadian Authors Under 30

I Still Don’t Even Know You

This Cake Is for the Party

Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead

★ Greedy Little Eyes

Still Missing

Ronald Reagan, My Father

Darwin’s Bastards

★ Chimerascope

Welcome to Canada

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