Merna Summers
Blue Portugal and Other Essays
The essay is an accommodating form; it can take on almost any subject. Essays also, according to the author of this new collection, “braid and weave and assemble patterns.” They may contain [...]
No Good Asking
I used to think that some young writer, looking for a way to finance a writing career, ought to craft a Christmas story, something along the lines of It’s A Wonderful Life, maybe, or Meet Me In [...]
Autant
Let us suppose that there once lived, in an invented town in Alberta’s real Peace River country, an invented family by the name of Garance, some of whose members were distinctly odd. Their [...]
You Can’t Stay Here
Frank O’Connor, the great Irish author, described a writer as one who sets a mirror in the roadway and then goes about describing what he or she sees reflected there. Edmonton author Jasmina Odor [...]
Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity
Edited by George Melnyk and Donna Coates
Encountering Riel
Certain historical events—particularly those where someone sins and someone is sinned against—draw novelists as magnets draw iron filings. In Canada, the misnamed Riel Rebellion of 1885, the [...]
Ten Canadian Writers in Context
edited by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie and Jason Purcell