The last two entries in our Short Story Month series are actually anthologies! The Unpublished City, Volume 1, Edited by Dionne Brand, and Write Across Canada: An Anthology of Emerging Writers, Curated by Joseph Kertes and Geoffrey Taylor, offer up a bevy of writing talent, perfect for getting an introduction to new writers and a […]
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The next entry in our Short Story Month series hails the rare find written by a celebrated author. A prolific writer between the years 1911-1961, H.D.—a.k.a. Hilda Doolittle—was primarily known as a poet, but she also wrote a great deal of prose. In fact, her writing career began with the publication of children’s stories in […]
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The next two collections in our Short Story Month series remind us that “women are powerful and dangerous” (Lorde). Written about the everyday issues women face – from sexual identity to sexual assault, mental health to an imbalance in relationships – in a way that is anything but ordinary, Her Body Among Animals by Paola […]
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Our Short Story Month continues with two highly immersive, darkly humorous collections that exist in the eye of the storm: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler and The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball. In a style of writing that manages to be both surreal and prophetic, Mockler and Ball build worlds out of the darkest […]
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The next collection in our Short Story Month series is a generational narrative so epic it had to have a post of its own. Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas is a collection of linked stories that takes you on a novel-like journey of a lifetime – several, actually- as each story captures a different history […]
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Have you ever read something that hit you so hard that you needed to immediately seek out and get your hands on anything else written by that author? Same. And lucky for us, we’ve had the pleasure of publishing both of her current collections of short stories. This Short Story Month post is dedicated to […]
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Our Short Story Month series continues by celebrating those stories that make us think twice about what we’ve read – those stories that sit marinating in our minds, and like a fine wine, open up more with time. The Third Person by Emily Anglin, and The Jokes by Stephen Thomas, are collections that contain exactly those sorts […]
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The next two collections in our Short Story Month series could fall under the category of the “novel-in-stories.” The Handsome Man by Brad Casey, and We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie, are collections that offer a novel-like narrative by using linked stories to follow a single protagonist. Navigating new landscapes and confronting a […]
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May is Short Story Month! In honour of that, we’ve put together a series that shares some of our favourite short story collections with you – a guide to our Book*hug gallery, if you will. Whether you’re a connoisseur of the art form or just starting to get familiar, this guide will help you find […]
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How can poetry set you free? The final offering in our National Poetry month series is an intimate reflection from Laila Malik. As she speaks on breath, survival, and possibility, her response brings us full circle, back into Lorde’s essay, and the freeing power of poetry. “In 1991, six years after Audre Lorde wrote “Poetry […]
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