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.
Literary links from around the web: A new director for Quill & Quire, an actual writer defending a Canada Reads title, and more
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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.
Books of the Year: 2023 in reading
These are books that made an impression on me.
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.
Hardboiled, with heart: two tough-guy crime novels add a social conscience to the violence and mayhem
Sam Wiebe and S.A. Cosby are among the leading practitioners of a new strain of noir fiction.
Toronto police lay charges in the vandalism of an Indigo store earlier this month
Protesters gathered outside 52 Division in downtown Toronto to call for the charges against the eleven to be dropped.
Kai Thomas, Christina Sharpe, and Helen Humphreys among the winners of seven Writers’ Trust awards
In addition to the prizes for individual works, several prizes for a body of work were also handed out.
Canadian authors and publishers sign open letter in support of Giller protesters; Anne Boyer resigns as poetry editor at New York Times Magazine
The Giller protesters also received support on social media.