The characters in Jann Everard’s sensitive and precisely calibrated stories have profound relationships with the natural world
Blue Runaways is the first fiction publication from Stonehewer Books, a new independent press out of Victoria, B.C.
Vancouver writer Carleigh Baker’s sophomore collection is a piquant examination of the way we live now
The stories in Last Woman have their finger on the pulse of the current zeitgeist.
A declarative kitchen-sink realism pairs with themes of yearning and befuddlement in Allison Graves’s debut story collection
These are stories that are honest enough to meet their characters on their own terms.
Canadian writers let loose in an anthology of anonymous sexytimes stories
The stories here are entertaining enough, provocative enough, and spicy enough that their ultimate provenance doesn't really make any difference.
Valérie Bah and Kama La Mackerel “creolize” language in a story collection that examines the interstices between its characters and their identities
The individual entries are linked by characters that drift in and out among them.
Transition and stasis operate in tension throughout Anuja Varghese’s debut short fiction collection
Regardless of the narrative mode Verghese chooses, her thematic focus remains relatively constant.
Golems, ghosts, and the horrific Schnabelperchten haunt the pages of this seasonal anthology of horror tales
As with any anthology of this kind, not all entries work equally well.
Christine Estima’s debut collection mines the experience of Arab immigrants to Canada
Estima infuses her writing with sensitivity for the barbed points of human interaction.
The Spooky Season: Joyce Carol Oates offers up fifteen tales of body horror by women
Body horror is by nature a visceral mode, and many of the writers here take full advantage of the gooier elements in their tales.
The Spooky Season: Jordan Peele adds some Hollywood star power to new anthology of horror tales by Black authors
Bringing these stories together in one place highlights the genre contributions of Black writers.