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November 22, 2024Chido Muchemwa Makes a Powerful Debut with the Poignant and Complex Stories in Who Will Bury You?
Acclaimed short story writer Chido Muchemwa has been published widely in prestigious literary journals across North America. Twice shortlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize, and winner of the ...
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September 23, 2024Scandal at the Alphorn Factory Brings 40 Years of Magical Gary Barwin Stories Together in a Definitive Collection
Author to over 30 titles in total, Gary Barwin is a mainstay on the CanLit scene and a renowned short story writer. It will come as no surprise to readers of his work that his catalogue includes a considerable ...
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July 18, 2025In Andrew Kaufman's New Short Story Collection, A Small Town Motel Can't Help but Transform Each and Every Guest
Award-winning, bestselling author Andrew Kaufman returns with Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel (Coach House Books), an absurdist collection of short fiction that will challenge and delight readers ...
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September 10, 2024An Eclectic and Gripping Cast of Characters Yearn for Happiness in Caroline Adderson's New Short Story Collection
Caroline Adderson is an author that has long been lauded amongst readers and literary critics, with a reputation for writing powerful novels, and some of the finest short fiction published in Canada and ...
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September 10, 2025A Grieving Mother Tries to Undo Death with Her Words and Stories in Susanna Crossman's THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS
In her latest novel The Orange Notebooks (Assembly Press), award-winning writer Susanna Crossman delves into the raw terrain of grief, memory, and myth. Told through the journals of Anna, a mother confined ...
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June 01, 2021Ian Hamilton on Digging Deep into Family Stories & Secrets for His Compelling New Novel, Bonnie Jack
Ian Hamilton, known for his two beloved series, the Ava Lee mysteries and their companion Uncle Chow Tung books, is branching out to new territory with a stand-alone novel that delves deep into a family's ...
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April 18, 2023Vancouver's Will Richter Wins CBC Short Story Prize for His Gripping Tale of Literary Festival Violence
This morning, CBC Books and the Canada Council for the Arts announced that Vancouver's Will Richter has won the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize. His story "Just a Howl" captured the prestigious $6,000 prize, ...
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January 23, 2020It's a Long Story: Ian Hamilton Goes Back In Time in His Newest Novel
At the start of the 1980s, China sits on the precipice of a new era of economic growth and prosperity, but not everyone is welcoming it.This exciting and tumultuous time is the setting for best-selling ...
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June 11, 2019"I Love How Short Fiction’s DNA Embodies the Broken" Elise Levine on Her New Story Collection & the Craft of Short Fiction
So much has been said - or rather, raved - about Elise Levine's fiction that an introduction to her writing could nearly be a book in itself. To pick just a few: NOW Magazine called her "A cutting-edge ...
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May 14, 2009
Should Professors of Poetry at Oxford Be Without Sin?
A friend of mine, a Jamaican man, told me many years ago that he disliked going to bars in England, where he’d been a student. Why? Because if a man put his hand up under a woman’s skirt, he was likely ...
