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Ice and Other Stories is an anthology put out by the UK house PS Publishing, celebrating the career of one of Canada’s greatest science fiction innovators, Candas Jane Dorsey. The release of the collection comes at an opportune time: Dorsey was recently honoured with the Golden Pen Award for lifetime achievement by the Writers’ Guild […]

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Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Candas Jane Dorsey, Sexuality

December 1, 2019

Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers

Erin Emily Ann Vance’s first novel, Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers, reads like a Wes Anderson movie set in a Robert Kroetsch small town. Clocking in at a brisk 97 pages, the book is more an extended character study than a traditional novel—plot is less important than personalities, and we jump frequently to various […]

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Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bruce Cinnamon, Hummingbirds, Resignation, Stonehouse Publishing

Rising

Becoming the First Canadian Woman to Summit Everest

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Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Canmore, Douglas and Mcintyre, Sharon Wood

Pressure Cooker Love Bomb

With a title like Pressure Cooker Love Bomb, this collection makes the reader both eager and a bit hesitant to crack the book open (will it explode in our hands?). Sharanpal Ruprai’s new poems excel at creating precisely this sort of edgy tension—a mood that makes you want to laugh while also holding your breath. […]

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Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, BIPOC, Christine Wiesenthal, Discrimination, Frontenac House, Racism, Sikh, Social Media, South Asia

Looking Back, Moving Forward

Looking Back, Moving Forward is an anthology focused on the voices of Canadian immigrant writers. Edmonton-based editor Julie C. Robinson, the former program coordinator of the Writer’s Guild of Alberta, has gathered the work of more than a dozen writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, combining emerging voices with the works of those who […]