The Signs of No
Caught in the crosshairs of rampaging hormones and impending divorce
Jannie Edwards
Avenue of Champions
Given that Edmonton has the second-largest urban Indigenous population in the country, it astounds me that it took me a lifetime of reading Alberta books to encounter a story like Conor Kerr’s [...]
You Look Good For Your Age: An Anthology
The title of this anthology edited by Calgary writer Rona Altrows echoes a backhanded compliment that sparked a deep dive into Altrows’s ambivalence about aging and frustration with the gendered [...]
Vermin
Calgary novelist and short fiction writer Lori Hahnel’s second collection of short stories, Vermin, arrives at an opportune time, when short fiction is being lauded on literary award lists. [...]
The Complex Arms
Edmonton writer Dolly Dennis’s second novel, The Complex Arms, tracks the lives of an eccentric coterie of characters who comprise a tenuous community of renters in a four-storey walk-up in the [...]
Chance Encounters with Wild Animals
The title of Calgary writer Monica Kidd’s fourth collection of poetry, Chance Encounters with Wild Animals, suggests an exploration of the risks and rewards of wilderness travel, the kind that [...]
An Honest Woman
Calgary writer JoAnn McCaig’s latest novel, An Honest Woman, has a matryoshka doll structure: It layers the story of a single, middle-aged woman who is writing a novel about a single, middle-aged [...]