Fiction & Poetry Contest Issue
Judge’s Essay by Fiction Contest Judge Zsuzsi Gartner
Judge’s Essay by Poetry Contest Judge Rhea Tregebov
FICTION
Grand Prize Winner
“Roadnotes” by Eliza Robertson
Runners-up
“The Dead Roads” by D.W. Wilson
“The Fur Trader’s Daughter” by Seyward Goodhand
POETRY
Grand Prize winner
“Owl on the roof” by Joelene Heathcote
Runners-up
“Leap” by Leslie Vryenhoek
“The Big Siesta (or: The End of Modern Warfare)” by Patricia Young
FICTION
“The Slums of Kitsilano” by Eden Robinson
POETRY
“Fairway” / “This poem has been modified from its original version. It has been modified to fit this space.” by Antony DiNardo
“Dixville Notch” / “Hoser” by Regan Taylor
“Dissolve” by Nathan Baker
“Fly Dying on the Bedroom Floor” by Kevin Bushell
“Having Passed Down a Hall to a Room with Yellow Seats Labelled ‘Cebupacific,’ a TV Squawking, Under Hissing Lights” / “We Will Recognize Them!” by John Wall Barger
“Bloodroot” / “Hiding the Erotic Inclination” / “Swim Trunks” / “The Sources of the Self” by Jan Conn
“I Think I Dreamed of Wings” by Robert Gore
“Euclidean” / “Castaway” by George Sipos
“Linkage” / “Gatineau Pastoral for a Gent Who Waits Table in the Rockies” / “Cloud Puffs above a Ridge-top Barbeque Grill” by Peter Richardson