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 [...]
In this latest collection of her poetry, A Selected History of Soul Speak, Andrea Thompson wants to put the tenuous relationship between spoken word and formal poetry to bed. Not only does her [...]
Frances Peck’s debut novel, The Broken Places, about a fictional Vancouver earthquake and the lives it disrupts, takes a hatchet to the trope that those who can’t do, teach. As a writing workshop [...]
Short fiction has limits. Years ago a colleague summed it up fairly reasonably as: “Short stories ask questions. Novels provide answers.” It doesn’t bother me that a story can’t be a complete [...]
