Swallow Dive by Zev Bagel
Zev Bagel (the pen-name for Warren Redman) was born in England and moved to Canada in 1994. He has lived in Shediac, New Brunswick since 2009.
short stories
Chemical Valley by David Huebert
From refinery operators to long term care nurses, dishwashers to preppers to hockey enforcers, Chemical Valley’s compassionate and carefully wrought stories cultivate rich emotional worlds in and through the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy.
Boone Park, a Short Story by JP McLean
When playing musical chairs with death, keep a song in your heart and an eye on the chairs.
The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman
For fans of Shirley Jackson and Alice Munro, a Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue.
Pigeon Soup & Other Stories by Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli
The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food.
The Sleep of Apples by Ami Sands Brodoff
In The Sleep of Apples, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with passion and consummate skill about nine closely linked characters who walk the tightrope of survival.
Into the Abyss: A Short Story by Allan Hudson
Into the Abyss is a short story by Allan Hudson of New Brunswick.
The Running Trees by Amber McMillan
A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations — through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation — to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
How to Pronounce Knife establishes Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most important voices of her generation.
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.
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.
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.