Credit: Helen Tamsey, Sundari Photography Brent van Staalduinen is the author of the novels BOY and NOTHING BUT LIFE (both forthcoming from Dundurn Press) and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED. His stories have won numerous awards and have appeared in The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, The Sycamore Review, The Fiddlehead, Event, Litro and [...]
Concentrated mirth Wayne Jones has been a librarian for over 30 years, lastly as University Librarian at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, during 2015–2019. He is currently on an earned administrative leave and is finishing his biography of Samuel Johnson. Wayne studied Johnson’s Rambler at the University of Toronto and [...]
Credit: Crystal Chowdhury Traci Skuce currently lives in social isolation in Cumberland, B.C. with husband, two grown sons and son’s girlfriend, and new dog, Molly. She has a brand-new collection of short stories called Hunger Moon, released by NeWest press. She wishes she could go on her book-tour, but for [...]
Deathbed? Not this time. My work is often described as spare and underwritten. Sometimes I'm tempted to add lush descriptive passages, really paint a picture, but that does not appear to be my style. When I overhear a tasty bit on the bus, I don't need detailed description. Images flash [...]
"Having so much fun, all through the skin-frying day and into the mosquito-ridden night." I don't know where "Breaking on the Wheel" came from, but I do know the source of the emotional core of the story. When I was younger I knew a man who put his children into [...]
Behold the cranky, wisecracking elegance of James Garner, star of The Rockford Files. Back in the days of The Love Boat and Three's Company, this was as good as it got on network television. Even fans of the show may not know that he did most of his own stunt [...]
Today is the official launch date for No Call Too Small, my collection of short stories. I wouldn't be much of a media whore if I didn't get out on that virtual street corner, whip out my bullhorn, and blast notice of this book's arrival to anyone in hearing range. [...]
Kind words and another comparison to George Saunders. Am I blushing? https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-77168-195-7
Tom Howard is a fiction writer based in Arlington, Virginia. He’s the author of Fierce Pretty Things (Indiana University Press, 2019), and his stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, Tin House, Booth, Willow Springs, Indiana Review and elsewhere. "Fierce Pretty Things" is the winner of the Indiana Review's 2017 Fiction [...]
for Walter Rae Tickles finger-combed the kid’s sheep-dog hair and gathered it in his fist, pulling at the roots. Semi-engaged texters finally looked up from their phones. The banners announced the birthday boy was eight and that was old enough to know about respect. The kid had kicked his shins [...]
On June 9, 2019, I flew to New York for the launch of Greg Giraldo: A Comedian's Story. From the point of view of self-promotion, Matt Balaker and Wayne Jones provide an interesting case study. Other than hiring a publicist and hosting a few readings, they seem to have concentrated [...]
Suzanna Derewicz is a writer and psychotherapy student based in Toronto, ON. She has recently been published in CV2, PRISM international, Arc Poetry Magazine, on Metatron's OMEGA blog, in Peach Mag, the Minola Review, and others. Her first chapbook, Maggie Monologues, was published with words(on)pages press. When I read Christopher [...]
