storytelling

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Bill Arnott’s Artist Showcase: Ian Cognito

February 11, 2021 by Bill Arnott

Welcome back Showcasers! Today we sail to Vancouver Island to visit with multitalented poet Ian Cognitō. Ian and I first met through 15 Minutes of Infamy, his performance series of storytellers and songwriters.

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Curtis LeBlanc’s Birding In The Glass Age Of Isolation

April 3, 2020 by Chris Banks

Curtis LeBlanc’s Birding In The Glass Age of Isolation, mental illness, masculinity, and storytelling are all explored in this worthy follow-up to his first book Little Wild (2018). Like the hunters he writes about, LeBlanc practices patience and careful … Continue reading

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The Way to Go Home by Catharine Leggett

January 5, 2020January 4, 2020 by James M. Fisher

Catharine Leggett's debut novel The Way to Go Home (2019, Urbanfarmhouse Press) is an ambitious one, and it comes on the heels of her shorty story collection, In Progress. While I enjoyed that book, I was anticipating how good a full-length novel by Ms. Leggett might be. At a little over 370 pages, it is a far cry from the short-story length, yet the essence of her mature writing style has remained intact, I am happy to say.

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Use Your Imagination! by Kris Bertin

August 15, 2019March 10, 2019 by James M. Fisher

Halifax-based writer Kris Bertin has won many awards for his previous short story collection, Bad Things Happen (2016, Biblioasis) and I'm sure that Use Your Imagination! (2019, Vagrant Press*) will garner its share. Composed of seven stories spread over 200 pages, these are the type of short stories you can really get into.