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Number 1 Contest Issue Theme Prairie
Editor: Vivian Hanson
Guest Editor: Pamela Banting
Fiction
1st Prize: East of White City by Allison Kydd
2nd Prize: The Light by Audrey J. Whitson
Lycanthropy by Kenneth Neufeld
Falmouth Jamaica, by Elizabeth McLean
Lost and Found - Part II by Barbara Howard
Poetry
1st Prize: Trinity by Marilyn Letts
2nd Prize: Summer Sunset by Rebecca Holand
August Hayfield by Edward Dewar
Break loose like a Chinook by Edward Dewar
Caragana Peas and Butterflies by Edward Dewar
dandelions by Wendy Joy
Nonfiction
Prairied Again by Dallas Harrison
Photographs
Lynn Fraser
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Volume XVI
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Editor: Micheline Maylor
Fiction
Wade Bell Nola’s Blouse
Salvatore Difalco The
Skunk
C.E. Mandybura Depths of
Heart
Errol Scott - The
Dempster-Rabbit's One Eye
Carolyn Watson - Jack
of All Trades
Poetry
Barry Butson Hamlet
on Skates
Rocco de Giacomo Namdaemun
Sestina
Untitled
Jesse P. Ferguson Amber
Straja Linder King Haiku
Ingrid Miller Lamonte
Melvin Pasternak Late
February Walk
Dianne Reid Front
Street Toronto in November
Jonathan A. Reynolds The
Nature of Things
Dennis Ross Dreams
and Fences
Stone's
View
Ginger Eve Rozmus dragon
fly
Sandra Savage You
Are Your Own Landscape
Bob Stamp Morning
Becomes Electric
Over the
Rainbow
Jane Stuart Barn
Dance
Rosalee van Stelten Bow
River
Changming Yuan Name
Changing
Nonfiction
Joan Shillington Profile
of Richard Harrison
Reviews
K. Gordon Neufeld Caught
Between Two Worlds: The
Short
Firction of Jacqueline Honnet
Lynn C. Fraser In
John Updike's Room
Photographs
Sharon Novak Cabin
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XVII Number 1 Contest Issue Theme:
LOVE
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Guest Editor: Christopher Wiseman
Fiction
Winners
1st Place: Beverly Rasporich True
Romance
2nd Place: Lorraine Cathro The
Melt
3rd Place: Salvatore Difalco Albert
& Boo Boo
Honourable Mentions:
Jenine Safioles A
Fable from Hythe
Penny-Anne Beaudoin First
Do No Harm
Poetry Winners
1st Place: Chris Wanamaker The
closest I ever came to finding love
2nd Place: Salvatore Difalco The
Wolf
3rd Place: Wendy Joy Hot
Sheets. Really
Honourable Mentions:
Kate Marshall Flaherty The
Spaces In Between
Cassy Welburn Rough
Crossing
Poetry
Barry Butson Darkest
Mirror
Scars
of Schoolboys in Love
Barry Roberts Egerton Verowe
Saelde
Gail Gernat The
Car
Shaun Hunter Mother
Nature
Taking
Flight
Irene Livingston Dogs
and Grand Passions
Kate Marshall Flaherty Another
Meditation on Unwinding
Mildred Tremblay A
Small Pot of Coffee
Nina Varsava A
Portrait of Us: Then and Now
Author
Interview
Lynn C. Fraser Paul
Anderson
Reviews
Micheline Maylor Swithering
Violet Nesdoly Running
Toward Home
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Volume XVII
Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Fiction
Lori Ann Bloomfield
Starring Wanda Plimpton
Salvatore Difalco Sunflowers
Robert Fantina Forsaking
All Others
Susan Eldridge-Vautour A
Feast of Apples
Poetry
Kathryn Bjornson
In Her Cedar Wardrobe
Barry Dempster A
Distal Winter’s Night
A
Paper Hug
The
Last Photograph
Jesse Ferguson Pangaea
Rattle
Julian Gobert Carousel
Lousia Howerow Reflections
on a Gift
When
Night Stilled Reason
Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck After
Reading Silence by Billy Collins
Renee Norman Erasure
Felicia Pacentrilli The
Innate Sexuality of
Childhood Games
Dennis Ross Iowa
October
Tom Sheehan After
Apples, Listening
Cutting
Ice on Rapid Tucker’s Pond
Knute Skinner A
Lovely Night
Rob Taylor Demolition
Site
Davide Trame Pictures
From the Home Ground
Interviews
Micheline Maylor Trevor
Cole
Jake Uitti Lauren
B. Davis
Reviews
Beth Everest Where It Began
Micheline Maylor Pearl
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Volume XVIII
Number 1 Contest Issue
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Guest Editor: Karen Connelly
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Winners
1st Place: Carin Makuz Treehouse
2nd Place: Judy Galbraith Homeland
Security
3rd Place: Collette Maitland Control
- 1969
Honourable Mentions:
Jan
Manchur Run
Away Fish
Andrea
Beca The
Disappearing Act
Linda
Hutsell-Manning One
Friday Night
Poetry Winners
1st Place: Vicki Goodfellow-Duke Nearer
In
2nd Place: Sandra Savage Linked
3rd Place: Barbara Green Through
the Looking Glass
Honourable Mentions:
Kate Marshall-Flaherty Detachment
Nick
Fuller Time
Isn't Linear
Juleta
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Vicki
Goodfellow-Duke After
Socrates
Barbara
Green I
Imagine Myself Leaping
Kate
Marshall-Flaherty Dogwood
Sandra
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Lynn C.
Fraser Katherine
Govier Interview
Reviews
Darlene
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Thousand Splendid Suns
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Susan
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Volume XVIII
Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor
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Hidden Canyon |
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Poetry |
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Wade Bell |
Nude |
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Kat Cameron |
Blue |
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Jesse Patrick Ferguson |
Breakers |
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Michael Fraser |
Picasso Museum |
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Elizabeth Greene |
Metal
Old Cairo |
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Lousia Howerow |
Interrogation During a Flight Connection, Houston
Elements
The Air is Too Thin For Buds |
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Jim Johnstone |
Cause and Effect |
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Karen McElrea |
The Arrival
Ancient
History
The Long Way
Home |
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Dipika Mukherjee |
It May Have Been the Third Glass of Wine |
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Melvin Pasternak |
Curve in The Road
Poem Orphanage |
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Alan Safarik |
Foreclosure |
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K.V. Skeene |
Away From The House The Sky Falls
Ongoing Accident in University Parks
Ongoing |
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Geoff Stevens |
The Decimalisation of Emily |
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Phoebe Tsang |
Cabin Fever with the Tree Pirate
The Voice of the Violin |
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Malcolm Dixon |
Big Davy’s Baptism by Mud |
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Susan Eldridge |
Zapatos |
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Tim Lehnert |
The Arrival |
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Tom Sheehan |
The Man With The Broken Crutch |
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Interview |
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Lynn C. Fraser |
Interview: Roberta Rees |
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Reviews |
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Lynn C. Fraser |
Review: Imagination in Action |
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Susan Plett |
Review: Wiser Pills |
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Dan St. Yves |
Review: The Best Laid Plans |
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Volume XIX
Number 1
Editor: Micheline Maylor Guest Editor: Austin Clarke
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Reflection |
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| Fiction Winners |
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First Place
Paul Sammartino |
The White Tiger |
Second Place
Angela Day |
Buryin’ Day Today |
Third Place
Diane Fretz |
Searching for the Pebble |
Honourable Mention
Beverly Rasporich |
The Clay Medallion |
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First Place
Rosemary Griebel |
Walking with Walt Whitman through Calgary’s Eastside
My father comes back as a draught horse |
Second Place
Joan Shillington |
A Kitchen Poem
A Measure of Taste |
Third Place
Pamela Porter |
Witness |
Honourable Mention
Angelo Giambra |
Timothy, On Foot |
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| David Miller |
Seeds |
| Jennifer Stone |
Fragile Blue and Creamy White |
| Pamela Porter |
Sestina: Museum of Grief |
| Linda Frank |
Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream |
| Juleta Severson-Baker |
Hailing Home
What Remains |
| Louisa Howerow |
The Couple in the Plaza
On Nine Mile Road |
| Frances Hern |
Screws |
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| Interview |
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| Lynn C. Fraser |
Interview with Melanie Little |
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| Annie Vigna |
Review: Ragged Company |
| Kristen Ingram |
Review: A Crack in the Wall |
| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets |
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Volume XIX Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor
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Organic Ink |
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| Kim Firmston |
Life Before War |
| Aaron Kreuter |
Garages |
| Bonner Litchfield |
Shortfall |
| Inge Trueman |
A Rootbeer Season |
| Carolyn Watson |
Armed With Knowledge |
| Crystal Wood |
Safe Words |
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| Poetry |
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| Wade Bell |
Moonlight |
| Louise Carson |
She set the woods on fire |
| Deidre Dwyer |
Century Farm |
| Elizabeth Greene |
Imaginary Cities |
| Louisa Howerow |
Stepping Out of the Family Wedding
In the Face of Extreme Heat |
| Anna Jaquiery |
Neighbours |
| Mark McBride |
After She’d Written me 10,000 Words |
| Sherry O’Keefe |
Trailing |
| Doug Ramspeck |
The End of Self
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| Juleta Severson-Baker |
The Nights of Galileo Galilei Sir Issac’s Loves
Love Poem for Tycho Brahe |
| Abigail A. Zammit |
Gecko |
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| Interview |
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| Lynn C. Fraser |
Interview with Marina Endicott |
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| Reviews |
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| Chris Dodd |
Review: The Mechanical Bird |
| Leah Gillis |
Review: String of Mysteries |
| Kate Marlow |
Review: Good Morning Comrades |
| Phillip Mattie |
Review: The Tales of Beedle The Bard |
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Volume XX Number 1 Spring/Summer 2010
Guest Editor: Robyn Sarah
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| George Webber |
Hutterite Boy |
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Fiction Winners |
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First Place
Marilyn Gear Pilling |
The Love Bites of Twenty-three Rogue Monkeys |
Second Place
Barbara Parker |
Bethlehem Blanket |
Third Place
David Willis |
Armchair Blues |
Honourable Mention
Katherine Fawcett |
Cannonball |
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First Place
Rosemary Griebel |
Hotel Room, Paris
Sparrows |
Second Place
Marilyn Gear Pilling |
As His God Holds Him
How She Remains |
Third Place
George Amabile |
Waking Up in the Dark |
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Marjorie Bruhmuller |
The Puddle That Attracts the Sky |
Honourable Mention
Marilyn Gear Pilling |
A Sunday Morning in February |
| Greg Simison |
Dreams of the Grand Banks |
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| Susan Stenson |
Performance In The Bedroom And Wanting To Help |
| K. V. Skene |
Less a Stillness, More a Lover of Flight |
| Susan Stenson |
Praying With Hooligans |
| Louisa Howerow |
Waiting For Letters While on Sabbatical |
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| Essays |
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| Marilyn Letts |
Caged But Not Engaged |
| Richard Harrison |
In Defense of Meaning |
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| Interview |
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| Lynn C. Fraser |
Interview with Arthur Slade |
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| Reviews |
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| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Poet in a Train
Art of Fugue |
| Laurie D. Graham |
Review: Untitled Child |
| Robin van Eck |
Review: Buying Cigarettes for the Dog |
| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Track and Trace |
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Volume XX Number 2 Fall/ Winter 2010-11
Editor: Micheline Maylor
| Art |
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Organic Beets |
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| Fiction |
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| Blake Brandley |
Frenchie and the Cyclops |
| Jane Cawthorne |
Weight |
| Zachary Gillis |
A Night on the Town |
| Jeanie Keogh |
Out of True |
| Ron Schafrick |
The Boy From Ireland |
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| Rob Boschman |
Jack |
| Gary Chappell |
Motorcycle Zen |
| Listen to Motorcycle Zen |
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Salvatore Difalco |
Inchworm |
| Laurie G. Graham |
Astrometry
Where The Music Comes From |
| Rosemary Griebel |
Insomnia |
| Richard Harrison |
Haiku |
| Louisa Howerow |
Maps |
| Nanci Lee |
Pomegranate To Help
Four Men Stole Munch’s Scream |
| Dan MacIsaac |
The Hour |
| Pat McAlister |
Backsplash |
| Conrad Scott |
In the Woodshop |
| Deena Kara Shaffer |
Split |
| Leslie Timmins |
The Prevailing Wind |
| Blair Trewartha |
Aerosol Cans |
| John Wall Barger |
Pulling My Dog in A Child’s Red Wagon Scream |
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| Colin Bernhardt |
The Writer’s Voice |
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| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Palilalia by Jeffery Donaldson |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane |
| Sarah Delport |
Review: Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel |
| Leah Gillis |
Review: Revolutions by Joan Shillington |
| Kate Marlow |
Review: Fall by Colin McAdam |
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Volume XXI Number 1 Spring/ Summer 2011
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Guest Editor: Douglas Glover
| Art |
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| Patrick McAneeley |
Stairs |
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| First Place |
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| Catherine Owen |
Reincarnation Redux |
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| Second Place |
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| Mark Sampson |
On Choosing a Mattress |
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| Third Place |
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| Leslie Timmins |
Caravaggio to His Critics |
| Honourable Mentions |
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| Leslie Timmins |
What is Served |
| Catherine Owen |
Solace/No Solace |
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| Interviews |
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| Dan St. Yves |
A Conversation with Will Ferguson |
| Listen to the entire Interview |
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| Gabrielle Volke |
Douglas Glover in Conversation |
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| Fiction |
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| Gabrielle Volke |
Open Your Eyes |
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| Poetry |
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| Catherine Owen |
What I did with the Remains |
| Elana Wolff |
Corfu |
| Cassy Welburn |
FreeFall |
| Louisa Howerow |
Just to Let you Know I Haven’t Forgotten the Garden |
| Catriona Wright |
Upon Subletting a one Bedroom in Montreal for the Month of June |
| Joan Shillington |
Cessna |
| Tegan Zimmerman |
Palimpsest |
| Rosemary Griebel |
A Night Full of Rain |
| Frances Hern |
In Search of Ezra Pound |
| K. V. Skene |
From the Saxon Tower to Carfax |
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| Reviews |
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| Rosemary Griebel |
Review: Active Pass by Jane Munro |
| Kit Dobson |
Review: Pain-Proof Men by John Wall Barger |
| Robin van Eck |
Review: Key in Lock by Rona Altrows |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: Memoir of a Good Death by Anne Sorbie |
| Kate Marlow |
Review: Rats of Las Vegas by Lisa Pasold |
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Volume XXI Number 2 Fall 2011
Editor: Micheline Maylor
| Art |
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Midnight, Northwest Territories |
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| Poetry |
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| Laura Chalar |
Brother Wolf
Midnight at the Law Firm
Tinnitus |
| J. J. Steinfeld |
On Occasion Seeing is Disbelieving
Watching the Audience
A Love Poem’s Conclusion |
| Bob Stallworthy |
What to do after a death in the family
Name Those Fears
Weighted Words
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David Wasmuth |
Tin Cans |
| Sneha Madhavan-Reese |
On Halloween
Certainty |
| Laura Clarke |
The Flood
Eva Balodis |
| Ted McCarthy |
Bikers |
| David Martin |
Misericordia Hospital, 3 a.m. |
| Salvatore Difalco |
Zuppa Inglese |
| Todd Swift |
Holiday
Pont D’Avignon
The Polish Builders In Hammersmith |
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| Discoveries |
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| Clem Martini |
Bitter Medicine |
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| In Conversation |
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| Ben Dugdale |
Mark Anthony Jarman Interview |
| Lynn C. Fraser |
Writers in Residence in Conversation |
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| Short Fiction |
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Ryan Stromquist
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How to Write a Poem |
| Rona Altrows |
Corner Office
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| Chase Baird |
Celebrity
Salve |
| Haley Kaminski |
Nine and a Half Weeks |
| Betty Jane Hegerat |
Poste Restante
Sincerely Darryl |
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| Creative Non-Fiction |
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| Bill Bunn |
Alone With Just One Colour |
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| Fiction |
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| Barb Howard |
Breaking the Mould |
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| Scott Watmough |
Bench |
| Carolyn Watson |
The Cub |
| Melodie Corrigall |
Think Fast |
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| Reviews |
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| Beth Everest |
Review: Yes by Rosemary Griebel |
| Krista Zeidler |
Review: Lucifer at the Starlight by Kim Addonizio |
| Marilyn Letts |
Review: What Disturbs the Blood by James Fitzgerald |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb |
| Robin van Eck |
Review: Tangles, A Story About Alzheimer’s,
My Mother and me by Sarah Leavitt |
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