Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson fiction shortlist comprises entirely books from independent Canadian presses
Two collections of short fiction and two works in translation are represented on a list that spans the country from PEI to Alberta.
Montreal author Kevin Lambert channels Jean Genet in a scalding novel about sex and class warfare
Lambert uses the structure of a classical Greek tragedy to tell the story of a strike at a sawmill and the amoral, charismatic figure caught up in it.