Photo Credit: Una RoulstonReview by A.N. Higgins Emma Donoghue is the author of eleven novels for adults––including Room, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize––two novels for children, and five short story collections, as well as various plays, screenplays,...
DREAM FRAGMENTS (Cactus Press, 2020)Mirabel Review by Meggie Royer Mirabel’s DREAM FRAGMENTS reads like one extended descent into sleep––slipping through shadowy corridors and mirrors, grasping for something that may or may not be there. Throughout her pages, the reader...
Interview by Bevan Thomas In 2007, aspiring cartoonist Jeffrey Ellis decided to unite Vancouver’s comics artists, and Cloudscape Comics was born. Over a decade later, Cloudscape Comics has published numerous graphic novels and anthologies to showcase both veteran cartoonists...
Less Sweet Than Chocolate or Concrete by Aimee LouwFrog Hollow Press, 2020 Review by Neil Surkan “Crip Poetics is my thesis title / I don’t really know what poetics means.” So ends the penultimate poem in Aimee Louw’s new...
Photo by Aaron VandenbrinkInterview by Natasha Ramoutar Emma Hansen’s debut memoir Still ebbs and flows around the reader, much like its recurring motif of water. At times, it brims with heartbreak; at other times, it is tender and overflowing...
The first news of 2021: Our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize winners, as chosen by contest judge Ariana Brown! Congratulations Karen, Natalie, and Imani! Grand Prize “only the bottom left quadrant of my hair is full” by Karen Lee karen...
Winter means one thing around these parts: our annual Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction is now open for submissions! The prize is named for Jacob Zilber, who played a central role founding the University of British Columbia’s department...
And without further ado, here’s our shortlist for our annual Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize: “In Defense of My Roommate’s Dog” by Natalie Wee “only the bottom left quadrant of my hair is full” by Karen Lee “the recital” by...
In the Vicinity of RichesChris Hutchinsonicehouse poetry, 2020 Review by Mark Grenon The title of Chris Hutchinson’s fourth book of poetry, In the Vicinity of Riches, suggests that, though the riches of late capitalism may seem to be within...