A European sensibility infuses the stories in Montreal resident Mikhail Iossel’s latest story collection
Iossel's chosen technique has the paradoxical effect of simultaneously speeding the prose up and slowing it down.
M&S has “support of the estate” for redacted text in Alistair MacLeod story, says publisher
Alexander MacLeod, Alistair's son and a fellow M&S author, said he had "no knowledge of this change."
McClelland & Stewart excises racial epithet from a story in the new Kanata Classics version of Alistair MacLeod’s Island
Better not to include it in this series at all than to include it in even a mildly bowdlerized form.
Canadian Chanel Sutherland wins the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Sutherland says the structure of the story was "a risk" that arose out of her belief that "every enslaved person deserves to have their story told with dignity."
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 31: “The Underside of a Wing” by Paola Ferrante
Ferrante's tale shows the ongoing potential for the short form to continue to evolve outside a strictly mimetic mode.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 30: “lived experience” by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Belcourt's tactic in "lived experience" is to trouble this unquestioned notion of progress and urban gentrification.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 29: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
The presentation of the technology in the story firmly situates it in the tech skeptic realm.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 28: “Started Early, Took My Dog” by Caroline Adderson
Throughout the story, relationships between and among the characters are drawn in different shades.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 27: “The Loves of Lady Purple” by Angela Carter
Lazarus, raised from the dead, is a potent biblical allusion for the marionette that comes to life as a woman.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 26: “Pending Licensor Approval” by Adam Cesare
"Pending Licensor Approval" is structured largely as a conversation between a writer and a bartender.