Hearts AmokKevin SpenstAnvil Press, 2020 Review by Robert Colman Kevin Spenst has been inextricably linked to Canada’s small press poetry world for the better part of the past decade. Prior to 2020’s Hearts Amok (Anvil Press) he’d published not...
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Non-fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Alexander Chee! Grand Prize “Ghost Bread” by Angelique Stevens Angelique Stevens is Haudenosaunee and Italian. Her nonfiction can be found in LitHub, The...
Designated MournerCatherine OwenECW Press, 2014 Riven Catherine OwenECW Press, 2020 Review by Kim Trainor Last night I went down to the river, the Fraser slipping through Delta’s fingers, past Westham Island, mud-green flow of water tipped silver out to sea....
The following pieces have been shortlisted for the 2020 Creative Nonfiction Contest! Check back soon for the winners announcement, chosen by this year’s contest judge, Alexander Chee. (PS, our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is open for submissions until October...
Grand Union: StoriesZadie SmithHamish Hamilton, 2019 Review by B. H. Lake Zadie Smith, the author of such masterworks of contemporary literature as White Teeth, Feel Free, and Swing Time, published a new collection of short stories in the fall...
We’re so excited to share our longlist for the 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! We were blown away by the number of submissions and the quality of writing for this contest. Thank you to all the writers who submitted and...
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Oct 31st, 2020 Our annual Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! We’re thrilled to have Ariana Brown as this year’s contest judge. Ariana is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of...
Photo by Jennifer IvingsInterview by A.N. Higgins Tanya Boteju’s first book, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens, published in 2019, is a Young Adult (YA) novel about a 17-year-old queer, mixed Brown girl who, over the course of one life-changing summer,...
How To Pronounce KnifeSouvankham Thammavongsa McClelland & Stewart, 2020 Review by Leslie Palleson In a recent interview with the Atlantic, Souvankham Thammavongsa describes laughter as the cornerstone of the stories in her debut collection How to Pronounce Knife. “Laughter does...
