fiction The Miramichi Reader

Everyone but Fajza by John Portelli, Translated by Irene Mangion

January 3, 2022 by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews

Everyone but Fajza starts off with conflicting media reports in Toronto about a serious incident involving Fajza. The major characters narrate their relation with Fajza and offer their construction of events.

How to Murder a Marriage by Gabrielle St. George

December 6, 2021 by Ramona Porter

Gina Malone, a bestselling relationships advice author and expert on exes, meddles in other people's affairs for a living. It makes for enemies. One of them is scaring her to death.

Doris Fly by P.W. Bridgman

November 29, 2021 by P. W. Bridgman

"Doris Fly" by P.W. Bridgman is from his short story collection, "The Four-Faced Liar".

Excerpt: This is How We Love by Lisa Moore

November 16, 2021 by James M. Fisher

An excerpt from the forthcoming novel by Lisa Moore, the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?

Beyond the Gallery: An Anthology of Visual Encounters, edited by Liuba Gonzàles de Armas and Ana Ruiz Aguirre

November 15, 2021 by Rachel Fernandes

This multilingual and multi-genre anthology showcases emerging and established talents within the Hispanic Canadian community, featuring a broad range of writings on visual culture by Spanish-speaking writers, artists, and cultural workers.

Because Venus Crossed An Alpine Violet On The Day That I Was Born by Mona Høvring, trans. Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin

November 6, 2021November 1, 2021 by Alison Manley

In a hotel, high up in a mountain village, two sisters aim to reconnect after distant years that contrast their close, almost twin-like upbringing. Martha has just been discharged from a sanatorium after a mental breakdown. Ella agrees to keep her company in the hope that the clean winter air will provide clarity—and a way back to their childhood connection.

I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through by Jack Hannan

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 by Alison Manley

Introspective and lyrical, I am the Earth the Plants Grow Through by Jack Hannan takes us on a cross-country trip through time, away from Montreal of the 1970s and Montreal of the present day, following a love story and an art story.

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

October 21, 2021 by Bill Arnott

Bill encounters the #1 international best-seller, Fresh Water for Flowers, an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly believes in happiness, despite it all.

The Body On The Beach by Patrick J. Collins

October 17, 2021 by Stephanie Collins

Inspired by a true event in Harbour Grace, 1920 Frank Fallon, a veteran policeman, finds himself demoted and transferred back to his hometown. Having left the community in 1905 after being rejected by his first love, Constable Fallon never wanted to return to the place of his childhood. Although they were young budding lovers, Marie Callahan's denial of him for the love of another is still a painful memory.

The Devil to Pay: An Inspector Green Mystery by Barbara Fradkin

October 10, 2021 by Allan Hudson

When a man disappears, the police conclude he is simply fleeing an unhappy home and a mountain of debt. Then a body is discovered. Inspector Green’s daughter, a rookie patrol officer, fears that her actions precipitated the murder and starts to dig for answers. Her search leads her straight into the path of danger. And another body.

Operation Trafficked by Helen C. Escott

September 26, 2021 by Stephanie Collins

In her most thrilling novel to date, bestselling, award-winning author Helen C. Escott takes you on a lightning-paced, chillingly current criminal investigation that is surprising at every twist up to its astonishing conclusion.

Claudette on the Keys by Joanne Culley

September 24, 2021September 23, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Author Joanne Culley turns her grandparent's history into a novel of historical fiction in Claudette on the Keys.

Trappings by Vanessa Winn

September 5, 2021 by Naomi MacKinnon

For fans of historical fiction and/or Canadian history, Trappings is a book based on real people and events in mid-nineteenth-century British Columbia. What’s more, it offers a woman’s view of politics and life during this time.

The Lesser Man: A Short Story by Tristan Marajh

November 3, 2021August 27, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Tristan Marajh is the 1st-Prize Winner in The Stratford Writing Competition and a Winner in The Scugog Arts Council’s Ekphrastic Writing Competition. His fiction and poetry appear in The New Quarterly, Existere: A Journal of Art & Literature, The Ekphrastic Review, Blank Spaces Magazine, Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine and others.

The Joanne Culley Interview

September 24, 2021August 22, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Joanne Culley received her MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto and her Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from the Humber School for Writers.