Short story month 2024: Shashi Bhat on short stories, autofiction, and her debut collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts
The real, physical world is ever-present in these stories, most particularly in a recurring theme focusing on women's bodies.
Short story month 2024: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and giant of the short story, dies at 92
One need only read a few sentences of Munro's writing to understand that one is in the presence of literary genius.
Short story month 2024: The struggles of immigrant characters are at the heart of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut collection
The best stories in the book are less assiduous in cuing their reader as to how to react in any given moment.
Short story month 2024: The peripatetic, restless fiction of Clark Blaise
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.
Short story month 2024: Sara Power navigates the emotional terrain of wives and mothers in her debut collection
A number of these stories focus on military families. But the broader theme is the status of women and their struggle for independence and autonomy.
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.