Featuring Chelsea Humphries, Jenny Berkel, Edie Reaney Chunn, and Jordan Redekop-Jones Chelsea Humphries, author of Flower Language Flower Language emerged, in part, from my fascination with the Victorian age and my love of secret codes and hidden meanings. Floriography is the language of flowers, popularized by the Victorians in the nineteenth century. It ascribes significance …
The title of Jaclyn Desforges’s new book of short fiction, Weird Babies, is absolutely appropriate. These stories are about childhood and motherhood, and they are strange. Strange and delightful, that is: the characters and their experiences are situated to one side of what we might consider normal, ranging from speculative fiction to something close to …
With reviews of books by Jack Daniel Christie, A. Daniyal, and Kit Roffey
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.
Gadsby has become a diviner of sorts, and her stories a clarion call.
Stan on Guard: A Two-Part Invention by K.R. Wilson is the anticipated sequel to the Leacock nominated Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia.
Metadata from a Changing Climate considers themes of nature, change, and connection.
Sean Howard’s new collection, Overlays (Gaspereau Press, 2025) collects “fresh poems from the deep wells of two related texts—John Thompson’s influential poetry collection Stilt Jack (1978) and Peter Sanger’s Sea Run (Gaspereau Press, 2023), a critical commentary on Thompson’s [work].”
With Reviews of books by Rebecca Salazar, Jake Byrne, and Margo LaPierre.
With reviews of books by Jordan Williamson, Victoria Mbabazi, and Manahil Bandukwala & Conyer Clayton
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.
More observational than confessional, Pirie writes not from the margins, but from the centre of her own life. This is a radical act—to narrate one’s interiority and place it before the world without apology.
With Reviews of books by Annick MacAskill, Elena Bentley, and Joshua Chris Bouchard
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