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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 30: “The Alps” by Colin Barrett

May 30, 2022June 14, 2022

Canadian-Irish writer Colin Barrett is a wizard with language that sings with the rhythms and cadences of the working class.

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Brief EncountersCanLitShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 1: “The Dead Are More Visible” by Steven Heighton

May 1, 2022June 14, 2022

One of the author’s best, this story interrogates the notion of societal visibility through the prism of a middle-aged-woman working as a labourer flooding ice rinks in the middle of the night.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Aimee Wall’s debut novel recalls a 1960s underground movement in a story told through precise, exuberant language

September 16, 2021June 14, 2022

The brief novel’s propulsion and effect result from its author’s key understanding of just how far to push her technique to achieve maximum effect.

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Brief EncountersShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2021: Why read short stories?

April 30, 2021June 14, 2022

Stories require attention and concentration and often yield their meanings only over time, or in retrospect. But the best stories reward vigilance and repeated reading.

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31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 1: “The Finkelstein 5” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

May 1, 2020June 14, 2022

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's story is a satire about the cascading violence that results from institutional racism.

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31 Days of Stories 2020: Why stories?

April 30, 2020June 14, 2022

Short stories offer a different kind of pleasure from other forms of literature, a pleasure not curtailed by a story's relatively small size.

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