How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
How to Pronounce Knife establishes Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most important voices of her generation.
Short Fiction
We Two Alone by Jack Wang
A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.
Home of the Floating Lily: Stories by Silmy Abdullah
Set in both Canada and Bangladesh, the eight stories in Home of the Floating Lily follow the lives of everyday people as they navigate the complexities of migration, displacement, love, friendship, and familial conflict.
You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
Contentious family dynamics are at the heart of Sidura Ludwig’s collection of linked stories, You Are Not What We Expected.
The Crooked Thing: Stories by Mary MacDonald
The Crooked Thing is a collection of intense and emotional stories, there are traumas and betrayals, loves and losses, missed opportunities and discoveries, and above all, hope.
The Hours: Stories from a Pandemic By Bruce Meyer
In the course of social isolation, social distancing, and social solitude, every hour can seem to last a year. In ‘The Hours’, Bruce Meyer presents six stories that showcase how individuals responded to pandemics throughout history with dignity and determination.
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
In her sure-handed debut volume of short fiction, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, Maria Reva writes with an insider’s familiarity about the last days of the Soviet Union and what followed in the months and years after the Communist regime’s ignominious collapse.
Goth Girls of Banff by John O’Neill
John O’Neill’s gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic.
Dear Hearts by Barbara Miller Biles
Dear Hearts is a collection of character-driven stories that are whimsical, sometimes magical, unsentimental yet poignant, and focus on the ways in which girls and women who were teenagers in the 1960s experienced the changing cultural values shaped by feminism.
Walking Leonard and Other Stories by Sophie Stocking
Walking Leonard and Other Stories, is a short story collection of roughly 30,000 words in the literary fiction genre. The stories depict unspoken pivot points in the lives of ordinary people.
The Four-Faced Liar by P.W. Bridgman
In the writing of P.W. Bridgman—whether it be his fiction or his poetry—things are not always as they seem. The story that gives its title to this latest volume features a village clock that cannot not tell the truth. Its four faces never quite agree on the time.
Night Watch: The Vet Suite by Gillian Wigmore
Full of humour and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians.
Hunger Moon by Traci Skuce
Traci Skuce’s Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full.
Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell
The stories in Erase and Rewind probe the complexities of living as a woman in a skewed society. Told from the perspective of female protagonists, the pick at at rape culture, sexism in the workplace, uneven romantic and platonic relationships, and the impact of trauma under late-stage capitalism. Quirky, intelligent, and darkly comic, Meghan Bell’s debut collection is a highwire balance of levity and gravity, finding the surreal in everyday life.
Urban Disturbances by Bruce McDougall
In Urban Disturbances, his second collection of short fiction, Bruce McDougall writes unaffectedly and persuasively about unexceptional people doing unremarkable things.
