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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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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
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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
Louka A
Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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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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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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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Lynn C. Fraser |
Interview: Roberta Rees |
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Lynn C. Fraser |
Review: Imagination in Action |
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Susan Plett |
Review: Wiser Pills |
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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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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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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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| 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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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
| Art |
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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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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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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 |
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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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Stairs |
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| Catherine Owen |
Reincarnation Redux |
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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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| 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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| Gabrielle Volke |
Open Your Eyes |
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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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| 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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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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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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Alone With Just One Colour |
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Breaking the Mould |
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Bench |
| Carolyn Watson |
The Cub |
| Melodie Corrigall |
Think Fast |
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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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Volume XXII Number 1 Winter 2012
Editor: Micheline Maylor
| Art |
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| Patrick Lane |
The Ecstacy of No |
| Barbara Pelman |
The Sword
Thisness |
| Barbara Black |
Herring Radio
Moth of Knives |
| Joanna Lilley |
Inside
The Piano Tuner |
| Xiwen Mai |
Visiting Cannon Beach |
| Juleta Severson-Baker |
Canyon |
| dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
Bad Bones |
| Steven Ross Smith |
Rush |
| Samantha Sternberg |
The Coming Slow |
| Michael Meagher |
Walter |
| Louisa Howerow |
The Displaced
Last Swim of the Day |
| Heidi Garnett |
A Privileged Life
Slaughter House |
| David Romanda |
slip off your name |
| Pamela Porter |
My Father’s Watch
A Story of Stone |
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Above the Tree Line |
| Marlo Attagutsiak |
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| Susan Plett |
Lose Your Favorite Lines |
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| Robin van Eck |
Lee Kvern Interview |
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Terrance G. Sheppard
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Queen Lizzie |
| Barbara Black |
The Plot
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| Lori Hahnel |
We All Shine On: What I Learned from John Lennon |
| Jessica Pia |
Dinner with Dad |
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| Naomi K. Lewis |
Seesaw |
| Matthew Heiti |
Enter My House Justified |
| Barbara Parker |
Exposure |
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| Robin van Eck |
Review: The Matter of Sylvie by Lee Kvern |
| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Particles by Martin Penny |
| Kate Marlow |
Review: Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod |
| Micheline Maylor |
Review: the id kid by Linda Besner |
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Volume XXII Number 2 Spring / Summer 2012
Guest Editor: Stephanie Bolster
Editor: Micheline Maylor
| Art |
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Once, in a story |
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| Heidi Garnett |
Our Black Dog Who Disappeared Two Weeks Ago |
| Third Place Poetry Winner |
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| Sylvia Adams |
The Bee Master’s Stag |
| Poetry Honourable Mentions |
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| Joan Shillington |
The Fifties |
| Frances Boyle |
Dark night, solo |
| First Place Prose Winner |
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Darren, Almost in Love |
| Second Place Prose Winner |
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Easy on the City John Handcock |
| Third Place Prose Winner |
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Redolent |
| Discoveries |
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A Little Book of Language by David Crystal |
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| George Amabile |
After Sappho (Fragment 130) |
| Frances Boyle |
Best Wishes |
| Simon Peter Eggersten |
Five Veils After Noon |
| Richard Harrison |
Poem for a Crescent Moon
You Tube |
| Louisa Howerow |
Incessant Hum |
| Juleta Severson-Baker |
The Lake
of |
| Carl Svoboda |
Shooting Rats |
| Zachariah Wells |
Magic Men
Twelve Poppies |
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| Michael Robert Dyet |
Hunting Muskie |
| dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
The Quinzie |
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| Micheline Maylor |
Zachariah Wells Interview |
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| Kate Marlow |
Review: Practical Jean by Trevor Cole |
| Chase Baird |
Review: Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner |
| Robin van Eck |
Review: For Your Tomorrow The Way of an Unlikely Soldier by Melanie Murray |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: The Boy by Betty Jane Hegerat |
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Volume XXII Number 3 Fall 2012
Editor: Micheline Maylor
| Art |
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| Tom Wayman |
Author’s Note:
Winter Garden Poems
Ark
Shadow
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behind the lodestar |
| Coleena Fanjoy |
Spring Burn
Advice |
| Michael Fraser |
Wedding #1
P.S. |
| Jeb Gaudet |
should’ve started earlier |
| Karen E. Kachra |
Falcons |
| Daniel J. Langton |
Back Then, Back There
Musing |
| Deborah Lawson |
DiMaggio & Monroe |
| Mike Madill |
Unresolved |
| Alan McMonagle |
Witch Woman |
| K. V. Skene |
Old Men |
| Portia Priegert |
the depressive’s manifesto |
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drawing |
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Fence-line
Longhorn Cafe |
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Skin Deep |
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Michelle Barker
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What Fits Inside a Box |
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| Barbara Biles |
The Legs |
| Rachael Frey |
The Lost-Twice Legend |
| Lucas Hill |
Variation |
| Amy Stuart |
Damn Animals |
| Alexander Williamson |
The One Who Stood |
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| Reviews |
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| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Ru by Kim Thúy translated by Sheila Fishman |
| Barbara L. Black |
Review: A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People by Gabe Foreman |
| Lynn C. Fraser |
Review: Dancing, with Mirrors by George Amabil |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: Western Taxidermy by Barb Howard |
| Beth Everest |
Review: Any Bright Horse by Lisa Pasold |
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Volume XXIII Number 1 Winter 2013
Editor: Micheline Maylor
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| Georges Bénay |
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| Feature |
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| John Wall Barger |
In Conversation
Lobotomyville
Skeletal Girl at the Beach
Gas Station Ballad |
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| Poetry |
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| Michelle Barker |
Disabled |
| aJbishop |
Pain Management |
| John F. Buckley |
Short-Sighted |
| Lisa Bush |
Please Do Not… |
| Jamie Donohoe |
To a Poet Killing Time |
| Beth Everest |
this poem is about desire |
| Vivian Hansen |
Alfie
Walking the Cane |
| Jennifer Juneau |
An Honoured Guest |
| Mary Ann Moore |
Shiny under the Moon |
| Joanna Qureshi |
Everything’s Shaken |
| Martha Royea |
How Like The Night |
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| Discoveries |
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| Cowboy Wild |
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| Short Fiction |
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| Rona Altrows |
Mozart
Offshore Transaction |
| Michael Hanson |
The Supramarket |
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| Fiction |
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| Elizabeth Boyd |
Sockeye Run |
| Michael Donoghue |
The Problem of Being Really Good at Names |
| Kyle Kinaschuk |
The Past as it was at the Moment it was Itself the Present |
| Rebecca Rosenblum |
Anxiety Attack |
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| In Conversation |
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| Jamal Ali |
Pamela Porter Interview |
| Elaine Morin |
Mar’ce Merrell Interview |
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| Reviews |
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| Kimmy Beach |
Review: Dying A Little by Barry Dempster |
| Lisa Pasold |
Review: Two O’Clock Creek Poems New and Selected by Bruce Hunter |
| Rea Tarvydas |
Review: What Echo Heard by Gordon Sombrowski |
| Annie Vigna |
Review: The Shore Girl by Fran Kimmel |
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Volume XXIII Number 2 Spring / Summer 2013
Guest Editor: Patrick Lane
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| Poetry Winners |
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| First Place |
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| Ulrike Narwani |
blue and white pottery |
| Second Place |
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| Laboni Islam |
Bioluminescent Bay |
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| Third Place |
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| dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
At 15 |
| Honourable Mention |
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| Juleta Severson-Baker |
Marguerite |
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| Prose Winners |
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| First Place |
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| Chase Baird |
The Scream |
| Second Place |
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| Beth Everest |
Hanging Clothes |
| Third Place |
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| Natalie Meisner |
Myths of Mutton Busting |
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| Discoveries |
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| Andrew MacPherson |
Some topics mentioned in novels I’ve read |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Quote |
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| Poetry |
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| Jannie Edwards |
Ruin and Beauty |
| Patrick Lane |
Sabi |
| Mary-Lynn Murphy |
Getting to Zero |
| Jim Nason |
Haiti News |
| Barbara Pelman |
The Better Story |
| Marilyn Gear Pilling |
The Skin |
| Brent Raycroft |
S and X |
| Marika Smythe |
Francisco de Goya. The Family of the Duke
of Osuna, 1788, Museo del Prado |
| P. C. Vandall |
Full of Crow |
| Cassy Welburn |
Bull Dancer |
| Elana Wolff |
Promontory |
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| Fiction |
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| Melinda Friesen |
Murdering Elegance |
| Chuck Lovatt |
Angus Breaks Free |
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| In Conversation |
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| Bob Stallworthy |
A conversation with Alice Major about
Intersecting Sets, A Poet Looks at Science |
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| Reviews |
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| Lynn C. Fraser |
Review: Duck Boy by Bill Bunn |
| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Night Eater by Patricia Young
Review: YVR by W. H. New |
| Shelley McAneeley |
Review: Floating Like the Dead by Yasuko Thanh
Review: The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin |
| Ryan Stromquist |
Review: I Know Who You Remind Me Of by Naomi K. Lewis |
| Rea Tarvydas |
Review: Marlarky by Anakana Schofield |
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Volume XXIII Number 3 Fall 2013
Editor: Micheline Maylor
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| Georges Bénay |
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| Evelyn Lau |
Invisible
Birthday Party
Manzanita, Oregon |
| Joan Shillington & Lynn Fraser |
A Conversation with Evelyn Lau |
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| Poetry |
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| Gary Allen |
Tin Star
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| Ashley-Elizabeth Best |
I’d Like To Be The Subject Of Your Neck Tattoo |
| Dymphny Dronyk |
Paris — en masse |
| Marlene Grand Maitre |
Blind To Me |
| Carol Harvey Steski |
starfish |
| M. Travis Lane |
I Have Put On Mourning |
| Nico Mara-McKay |
Stoned |
| Stephen Maude |
Mayflies
Midpoint |
| Cheyenne Mullen |
How to Wear a Tuxedo
How to Wear Open Windows |
| Michael Prior |
Pigeon’s Blood Red |
| Carol Shillibeer |
Vehementia |
| Josh Stenberg |
turns out you still can |
| Matthew Walsh |
Someone’s Speaking in Emilie Gamelin |
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| Discoveries |
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| Andrew MacPherson |
Some topics mentioned in novels I’ve read |
| Lynn C. Fraser |
Map of authors in this issue |
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| Non-Fiction |
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| Richard Harrison |
On Reading Daniel Jones and Not Writing Like Him |
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| Fiction |
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| Jann Everard |
Drippin’ Lemon |
| Kate French |
Field Mice |
| Vincent Pagé |
Burn Cream |
| Willow Verkerk |
If This Closeness Meant Something |
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| Reviews |
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| Beth Everest |
Review: 33 Million Solitudes by Ali Riley |
| Bruce Hunter |
Review: Tracie’s Revenge by Wade Bell |
| Micheline Maylor |
Review: Bull Head by John Vigna
Review: The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things by Lorna Crozier |
| Ryan Stromquist |
Review: One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote |
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