Creative Fiction – The Miramichi Reader

Gutter Child by Jael Richardson

November 29, 2020November 28, 2020 by James M. Fisher

Jael Richardson’s debut novel, Gutter Child (2021, HarperCollins Canada)* is a forceful one that shines a spotlight on racism, colonization and the struggle to get out from under an imposed debt that only death will bring freedom from. It is … Continue reading

Pretty Time Machine: ekphrastic prose poems by Lorette C. Luzajic

March 21, 2020March 21, 2020 by Bill Arnott

In Pretty Time Machine, Lorette Luzajic does what she does best, finding those veins in art’s ore, revelations resulting in a complementary shared experience. Enlightening moments. The ekphrasis of life.

The Group of Seven Reimagined, Edited by Karen Schauber

November 15, 2020October 22, 2019 by James M. Fisher

It is a fabulous idea, the melding of the internationally famous Group of Seven Canadian landscape artists with some of the finest award-winning writers on the Canadian and international fiction scene today.

Send More Tourists…the Last Ones Were Delicious by Tracey Waddleton

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 by James M. Fisher

While some reviewers think that the humorous title befits this book, I think there is a darker side to many of the stories to which I was immediately attracted to.

The Little Fox of Mayerville by Éric Mathieu, Translated by Peter McCambridge

June 18, 2020August 20, 2019 by James M. Fisher

Éric Mathieu's The Little Fox of Mayerville (translated by Peter McCambridge) represents a bit of a departure from recent QC Fiction offerings such as Prague and In the End They Told Them all to Get Lost, which while being ingenious works of fiction, may not have been to everyone's taste like the Giller-nominated Songs for the Cold of Heart.

Grass-Fed by Aaron Schneider

March 18, 2019 by James M. Fisher

An academic, an artist, two businessmen, a talk show host, and a retired hockey player gather at a hunting lodge and resort in Northern Ontario. Over the course of their retreat they kill, they eat and they justify their lives.

Use Your Imagination! by Kris Bertin

August 15, 2019March 10, 2019 by James M. Fisher

Halifax-based writer Kris Bertin has won many awards for his previous short story collection, Bad Things Happen (2016, Biblioasis) and I'm sure that Use Your Imagination! (2019, Vagrant Press*) will garner its share. Composed of seven stories spread over 200 pages, these are the type of short stories you can really get into.