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Previously Published by The Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society

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Volume XVI 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
Monica Kidd

 

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Volume XVI Number 2
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 Door

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Volume 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

 

Fiction 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 Severson-Baker                       Between Us

 Poetry

Vicki Goodfellow-Duke                      After Socrates

Barbara Green                                     I Imagine Myself Leaping

Kate Marshall-Flaherty                       Dogwood

Sandra Savage                                    Cortes Island B.C.

 

Interviews

Lynn C. Fraser                                     Katherine Govier Interview

 

Reviews

Darlene Louka                                     A Thousand Splendid Suns

                                                                   by Khaled Hosseini

Susan Plett                                           Quick by Anne Simpson

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Volume XVIII Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor

Art

 

Steve Speer

Hidden Canyon

Poetry

 

Wade Bell

Nude

Kat Cameron

Blue

Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Breakers

Michael Fraser

Picasso Museum

Elizabeth Greene

Metal

Old Cairo

Lousia Howerow

Interrogation During a Flight Connection, Houston

Elements

The Air is Too Thin For Buds

Jim Johnstone

Cause and Effect

Karen McElrea

The Arrival

 Ancient History

 The Long Way Home

Dipika Mukherjee

It May Have Been the Third Glass of Wine

Melvin Pasternak

Curve in The Road

Poem Orphanage

Alan Safarik

Foreclosure

K.V. Skeene

Away From The House The Sky Falls

Ongoing Accident in University Parks

Ongoing

Geoff Stevens

The Decimalisation of Emily

Phoebe Tsang

Cabin Fever with the Tree Pirate

The Voice of the Violin

Fiction

 

Malcolm Dixon

Big Davy’s Baptism by Mud

Susan Eldridge

Zapatos

Tim Lehnert

The Arrival

Tom Sheehan

The Man With The Broken Crutch

Interview

 

Lynn C. Fraser

Interview: Roberta Rees

Reviews

 

Lynn C. Fraser

Review: Imagination in Action

Susan Plett

Review: Wiser Pills

Dan St. Yves

Review: The Best Laid Plans

 

 

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Volume XIX Number 1
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Guest Editor: Austin Clarke

Art  
Wallace Zawadski Reflection
   
Fiction Winners  
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
   
Poetry Winners  
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
   
Editor’s Choice  
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
   
Interview  
Lynn C. Fraser Interview with Melanie Little
   
Reviews  
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

Art  
Will Pursell Organic Ink
   
Fiction  
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
   
Poetry  
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

Juleta Severson-Baker The Nights of Galileo Galilei
Sir Issac’s Loves
Love Poem for Tycho Brahe
Abigail A. Zammit Gecko
   
Interview  
Lynn C. Fraser Interview with Marina Endicott
   
Reviews  
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

Art  
George Webber Hutterite Boy
   
Fiction Winners  
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
   
Poetry Winners  
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
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
   
Editor’s Choice  
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
   
Essays  
Marilyn Letts Caged But Not Engaged
Richard Harrison In Defense of Meaning
   
Interview  
Lynn C. Fraser Interview with Arthur Slade
   
Reviews  
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  
Alastair Bird Organic Beets
   
Fiction  
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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Poetry  
Rob Boschman Jack
Gary Chappell 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
   
Non-Fiction Excerpt  
Colin Bernhardt The Writer’s Voice
   
Reviews  
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  
Patrick McAneeley Stairs
   
Poetry Winners  
First Place  
Catherine Owen Reincarnation Redux
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Second Place  
Mark Sampson On Choosing a Mattress
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Third Place  
Leslie Timmins Caravaggio to His Critics
Honourable Mentions  
Leslie Timmins What is Served
Catherine Owen Solace/No Solace
   
Interviews  
Dan St. Yves A Conversation with Will Ferguson
Listen to the entire Interview  
Gabrielle Volke Douglas Glover in Conversation
   
Fiction  
Gabrielle Volke Open Your Eyes
   
Poetry
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
   
Reviews  
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  
Ika Duprass Midnight, Northwest Territories
   
Poetry  
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
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
   
Discoveries  
Clem Martini Bitter Medicine
   
In Conversation  
Ben Dugdale Mark Anthony Jarman Interview
Lynn C. Fraser Writers in Residence in Conversation
   
Short Fiction
Ryan Stromquist
How to Write a Poem
Rona Altrows Corner Office
Chase Baird Celebrity
Salve
Haley Kaminski Nine and a Half Weeks
Betty Jane Hegerat Poste Restante
Sincerely Darryl
   
Creative Non-Fiction  
Bill Bunn Alone With Just One Colour
   
Fiction  
Barb Howard Breaking the Mould
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Scott Watmough Bench
Carolyn Watson The Cub
Melodie Corrigall Think Fast
   
Reviews  
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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