We’re so pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Non-fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Sharan Dhaliwal. As Sharan writes, “with each of these submissions, we are taken on their journeys in a way that serves only...
Put Your Hand in Mine Elaine WooSignature Editions, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Vancouver poet Elaine Woo’s first collection, Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood Editions, 2014), had an often whimsical tone, but despite the poems that focussed on joy and...
And without further ado, here’s our shortlist for our annual Creative Non-fiction contest: Tabitha Siklos, “Half Scissor” Barbara Tran, “Peerless” Shelley Pacholok, “The Body Does not Flee” Rachel Lindley-Maycock, “And Begin” Jonathan Wei, “Dead Languages or The What” We’ll...
Reviews by Tasha Hefford Fool Muun Komming! When I fall in love with a thing, I fall hard. I fall completely. I am locked into the love with a magic oblivion. I can’t see what others perceive as weird,...
Interview by Tara McGuire Peter Orner’s new collection Maggie Brown & Others (Little, Brown and Company, 2019) was released in early July. The New York Times calls Orner “A master of his form.” Tara McGuire spoke with Peter Orner...
By Jess Taylor This story is an excerpt from Jess Taylor’s new collection “Just Pervs”, which is now available from Book*hug Press Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, from one bad dream or another. I get...
We’re thrilled to announce the nine stories longlisted for our annual Creative Non-fiction contest: Madelena Grossmann, “Refuge” Tabitha Siklos, “Half Scissor” Sheena Koo, “Mangosteen Guy” Barbara Tran, “Peerless” Jamie L. Smith, “Mythology Lessons” Caroline Goodwin, “Otters” Shelley Pacholok, “The...
Alm had some things he needed to do in town early, so Fanny could get a lift if she liked. As he drove, he drank coffee from a paper cup. It looked as though he was holding it in...
Grotesque TendernessDaniel CowperMcGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019 Review by Mark Grenon Flannery O’Connor wrote “When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced labor camps and in the fumes of the...