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Paradise & Elsewhere

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page and C.P. Boyko, two B.C.–based authors at different stages of their careers, return this season with short-fiction collections offering radically divergent approaches to the notions of storytelling and storytellers. In Paradise & Elsewhere, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Novelists

By C.P.Boyko

Kathy Page and C.P. Boyko, two B.C.–based authors at different stages of their careers, return this season with short-fiction collections offering radically divergent approaches to the notions of storytelling and storytellers. In Paradise & Elsewhere, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Boundary Problems

By Greg Bechtel

A vanishingly thin – and therefore easily crossed – line exists between dream and reality, magic and science, insanity and sanity in Greg Bechtel’s debut story collection. Situations are rarely what they seem, and often ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Circus

By Claire Battershill

In Claire Battershill’s story “Circus,” which won the 2008 CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction, the author distinguishes between two types of circuses: the bright, friendly ones with clowns and cotton candy, and the older, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

THOU

By Aisha Sasha John

To be a corporeal creature is an incredibly lonely thing. Every bit of muscle and bone represents a distance that keeps us from each other, every aspect of our physical form is a kind of ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Fleece Era

By Joanna Lilley

U.K.-born, Yukon-based poet Joanna Lilley’s debut collection uses a wintry landscape as the backdrop for heated questions about love and life on Earth. More accurately, Lilley’s collection details our fraught relationships with Mother Nature – ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Emberton

By Peter Norman

With his debut novel, Toronto poet Peter Norman – whose first collection, At the Gates of the Theme Park, was shortlisted for the 2011 Trillium Book Award for poetry – delivers a solid, if flawed, ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels