There’s Always More to Say by Natalie Southworth
With her debut collection There’s Always More to Say, Natalie Southworth demonstrates that she not only understands the skills necessary to write powerful short stories, she has no shortage of them.
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Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #58
Featuring Marie-Josée Poisson, Alison Gadsby, Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho, Natalie Southworth
Diving Board by Tomás Downey, Translated by Sarah Moses
In recent years there has been a wealth of Argentinian horror collections from writers such as Mariana Enríquez, Samanta Schweblin, Augustina Bazterrica, as well as the anthology Through the Night Like a Snake. Added to their ranks is Tomás Downey, author of the taut and frightening Diving Board, wonderfully translated by Sarah Moses.
Best Canadian Stories 2026 selected by Zsuzsi Gartner
If you feel like you missed out on a lot of good short fiction in the last twelve months, or want to take your first step into short fiction (join us! Short fiction is great!), then I highly recommend picking up Best Canadian Stories 2026, and diving in.
Planet Earth by Nicholas Ruddock
Planet Earth is a wide-ranging collection of stories. Clocking in at 184 pages in total, this is small but mighty: there are pieces of flash fiction here, longer stories, ones that break your heart and ones that chill you to the bone.
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
A Song for Wildcats by Caitlin Galway
Each of the five stories in this collection stretch the boundaries of contemporary literary fiction and in doing so establish Galway’s unique voice and style.
Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton
Newton’s skill as a writer is in the subtlety of the twists in these stories, and I was continually astonished at how well he executed a story during my read. When I pulled out Blaine Newton’s short story collection Rag Pickers again, to prepare for this review, I went to look at some brief notes …
Welcome to the Neighbourhood by Clea Young
Young’s characters yearn for community, for untroubled friendships, for peace, love, and understanding (to quote Nick Lowe)—as though they too grew up with a notion of the Welcome Wagon and feel nostalgia for something they hold dear but cannot actually manifest in their everyday lives.
Remaindered People & Other Stories by Pratap Reddy
Remaindered People is the title story for this impressive collection. Brij is a young man who is currently unemployed and seemingly without direction, yet when he accepts a position as a caregiver to his friend’s father, he comes to genuinely care for the aging patriarch. This piece establishes a very fine standard for the rest …
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.
Tilting Towards Joy by Margaret Macpherson
Tilting Towards Joy, a collection of short stories on the themes of making and finding community, is a refreshing exploration on the complexity of human behavior.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #40
Featuring Chelene Knight, Sheila Stewart, Damian Tarnopolsky, and Luciana Erregue
Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery
Hollay Ghadery is a writer who will not waste your time. By which I mean both that she says what she has to say succinctly, and that her observations are inevitably worthwhile.
