Wan: a novel by Dawn Promislow

Wan: a novel by Dawn Promislow

Dawn Promislow’s slow-burning novel, Wan, takes the reader back to apartheid-era South Africa.

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An Excerpt from the Award-Winning “Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries” by Bill Arnott

An Excerpt from the Award-Winning “Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries” by Bill Arnott

An Excerpt from the Award-Winning "Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries" by Bill Arnott.

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The Endless Garment: A Pocket Epic in Five Collections – Marguerite Pigeon

The Endless Garment: A Pocket Epic in Five Collections – Marguerite Pigeon

With equal parts love of the art form and social critique, Marguerite Pigeon ranges over time and space in a series of long poems that delve into the history and impact of fashion.

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Tom’s Wedding by Susan Sanford Blades

Tom’s Wedding by Susan Sanford Blades

“Tom’s Wedding,” was originally published in print form in the moth: art and literature, issue 36, Spring 2019. It was also published in Susan Sanford Blades' debut novel-in-stories, Fake It So Real (Nightwood Editions, October 2020).

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curRent fiction reviews

All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay

Lisa Timpf | May 23, 2022May 22, 2022 | Fiction, science fiction, Speculative Fiction

Wan: a novel by Dawn Promislow

Ian Colford | May 23, 2022May 21, 2022 | Fiction

What Is Written on the Tongue by Anne Lazurko

Alison Manley | May 16, 2022May 15, 2022 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, War

Bystander by Mike Steeves

Ian Colford | May 16, 2022May 11, 2022 | Fiction

May is Short Story Month

River People by Wayne Curtis

James M. Fisher | April 18, 2022April 18, 2022

Excerpt: Bodies in Trouble by Diane Carley

James M. Fisher | April 18, 2022April 18, 2022

Dream Signs: Stories by Melanie Bell

James M. Fisher | March 28, 2022March 27, 2022

Cut Road by Brent Van Staalduinen

Ian Colford | March 21, 2022March 19, 2022

current non-fiction reviews

Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost by Neil Besner

Michael Greenstein | May 23, 2022May 22, 2022 | Memoirs, Non-Fiction

The Book of Malcolm: My Son’s Life with Schizophrenia by Fraser Sutherland

Noor Ferdous | May 23, 2022May 21, 2022 | Memoirs, Non-Fiction

An Excerpt from the Award-Winning “Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries” by Bill Arnott

Bill Arnott | May 21, 2022May 23, 2022 | Excerpt, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Travel

Black & White: An Intimate, Multicultural Perspective on “White Advantage” & the Paths to Change By Stephen Dorsey

Wanda Baxter | May 16, 2022May 18, 2022 | Black Lives Matter, Cultural, Non-Fiction

Current poetry reviews

The Endless Garment: A Pocket Epic in Five Collections – Marguerite Pigeon

Alison Manley | May 23, 2022May 22, 2022 | Poetry

a glimpse of water fall: Poems by Jane Tims

Donna Allard | May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 | Poetry

Meditative Magic

Cynthia Sharp | May 16, 2022May 11, 2022 | Poetry

Here Was Paradise | Aquí era el paraíso by Humberto Ak’abal, Illustrations by Amelia Lau Carling

Kayla Geitzler | May 16, 2022May 11, 2022 | Poetry

Current Titles for Younger Readers

A Bend in the Breeze by Valerie Sherrard

Ella Breau | April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 | Fiction, Young Adult

Decoding Dot Grey by Nicola Davison

Ian Colford | March 28, 2022March 29, 2022 | Fiction, Mature New Reader, Young Adult

Hare B&B by Bill Richardson, Illustrated by Bill Pechet

Melanie Métivier | March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 | Children, Children, Picture Book

Two New Children’s Picturebooks by Lori Doody

Melanie Métivier | March 21, 2022March 19, 2022 | Children, Picture Book

Featured Columns

Miramichi Flash ‘Showcase’: April 2022

Karen Schauber | April 23, 2022April 23, 2022

Bill Arnott’s Beat: No Power? No Problem!

Bill Arnott | April 25, 2022April 23, 2022

French Dive: Living More with Less in the South of France by Eric Freeze

Bill Arnott | February 28, 2022February 27, 2022

Grounds for Divorce in Writing: Crippling Clichés

Kayla Geitzler | March 28, 2022March 27, 2022

Weekly Ferocity: May 21, 2022

Simon Constam | May 21, 2022May 21, 2022

Current interviews

The Shelley A. Leedhal Interview

May 23, 2022May 21, 2022 | Interviews

The K. R. Wilson Interview

April 25, 2022April 24, 2022 | Interviews

The Tawahum Bige Interview

April 4, 2022April 3, 2022 | Interviews

The Mary Germaine Interview

March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 | Interviews

Singular Short Stories

Tom’s Wedding by Susan Sanford Blades

Susan Sanford Blades | May 23, 2022May 24, 2022

The Year of the Dog by Andrew Stancek

Andrew Stancek | May 9, 2022May 8, 2022

That Cat’s Going to be Trouble by Zoë Sutton Harris

Zoe Sutton Harris | April 11, 2022April 13, 2022

Garnett’s Gift by Pierre C Arseneault

James M. Fisher | March 28, 2022March 27, 2022

The Best Books of 2021

Best Poetry of 2021

December 28, 2021January 17, 2022

Best Non-Fiction of 2021

December 26, 2021January 17, 2022

Best Fiction of 2021

December 19, 2021January 17, 2022