Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive by Alison Gadsby
Gadsby has become a diviner of sorts, and her stories a clarion call.
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As the Earth Dreams | The Terese Mason Pierre interview
Terese Mason Pierre is the editor of As The Earth Dreams (House of Anansi Press), a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #53: Now I Shall Leave You to Your Fate Takeover Edition!
Hear from the contributors of Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate about why they wrote their stories in the collection!
Homebound by Josh Quirion
This collection is well worth your time, populated by a set of distinct voices
The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories by Lynda Williams
Life is wonderful and challenging, complicated and hard. That much you might easily take away from the title of Lynda Williams’s debut short story collection, The Beauty and the Hell of It.
Excerpt: Skin by Catherine Bush
“Animals” is excerpted from Skin copyright © 2025 by Catherine Bush. Reprinted by permission of Goose Lane Editions. For more information, please visit www.gooselane.com.
The Art of Forgiveness: Short Fiction by Chris Benjamin
In The Art of Forgiveness, Chris Benjamin presents readers with short fictions in grim tones about three friends — Gerry, Long, and Drew — in a collection that could have been called Men Without Women if Hemingway first, then Murakami, hadn’t used that title.
Northern Nights, Edited by Michael Kelly
From the introduction and “Rescue Station” by Nayani Jensen, I knew I was in for a wild and wonderful ride.
The Private Apartments by Idman Nur Omar
Moving, insightful, linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants — despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.
We Have Never Lived On Earth: Stories by Kasia Van Schaik
Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa.
The Ghost of You by Margarita Saona
The English translation, The Ghost of You, originally titled in Spanish La ciudad donde no estás, gives these ghosts an English-speaking home, in the hopes they can remain in the memory of their readers the same way someone’s presence stills haunts a place.
Chrysalis By Anuja Varghese
Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.
Magnetic Dogs, Stories by Bruce Meyer
Magnetic Dogs is a collection of short stories that examines how displaced individuals – those who have been snatched out of their time and place – struggle to adapt and reinvent themselves in an entirely new context or re-establish themselves in their former situations.
Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives.
