There’s palpable tension in the spare opening pages of Yellow Barks Spider, a debut novella by Vancouver-based Saskatchewan transplant Harman Burns. Even before the story begins, a dedication—“for ██████ wherever you are” —draws any curious eye. A technique Burns revisits later, redaction—with its there/not there visibility—prompts inevitable questions: what’s the masked name and the story behind …
Four novellas by four writers are presented in Blasphemy and Other Ancestors: “The New Book” (Padgett Powell), “Aunt Katie’s Tales” (Darius James), “The Werewolf” (Lee Henderson), and “Insolite” (Jean Marc Ah-Sen). What unites them isn’t theme or situations.
McCurdle’s Arm by Andrew Forbes is a welcomed addition to a strong and robust baseball literary tradition
That cookie jar that looks at you from the shelf, tempting you to steal from it even if you don’t know what type of cookies it contains … that’s this story.
In Sickness and In Health by Nora Gold is the fictionalized memoir of a woman whose childhood was marked by epilepsy. Yom Kippur in a Gym by Nora Gold is a powerful, moving narrative that illuminates the messiness of our lives, while also providing a gentle nudge towards deep healing through kinship and faith.
The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars.
This Unlikely Soil, the sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Andrea Routley, is a quintet of linked novellas exploring the failures of kindness and connection among a rural west-coast community of queer women.
A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community
Mexican-Canadian writer Martha Bátiz is the author, amongst other works, of a particularly alluring novella, Damiana’s Reprieve (Exile Editions, 2018). With the backdrop of Italian Opera The Marriage of Figaro, the life of opera singer Damiana, and that of her family develop amidst sibling rivalry and a family mystery that relentlessly pulls the reader in.
We’re excited to announce the first three installments of The Gamble, bestseller Bill Arnott’s e-book novella series (suspense, intrigue, action and humour) are now in a single volume, “The Gamble Novellas: Books 1-2-3.”
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