Journey Prize
It is a lovely irony of literature that the largest Canadian prize for short fiction was endowed by an American. James A. Mitchener’s Canadian royalties […]
Authors
Interview with the Future
Today’s Proust answers come from Irdaign, midwife, gipsy, princess, seer, and grandmother to the heroine of Allaigna’s Song by JM Landels, which appears in each […]
Award Season!
We are pleased as punch to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize. How did we pick them? It was hard. Have you even looked […]
Interview with a Pianist
This interview is a teaser for the flash fiction piece ‘Waiting for Twilight’, the 2014 Hummingbird Prize runner-up by Daniela Elza. Savour this glimpse into […]
Interview with an Adolescent
Teenagerhood is an awkward time of strange sensations and metamorphoses. For some it’s worse than others. Meet Markella, the protagonist of Rebecca Gomez Farrell’s ‘Thlush-a-lum’, […]
Interview with a Siren
Some slippery characters are harder to catch than others, but poet Mary Rykov slung her net around the fish-tailed catch of ‘A Siren’s Song’ from […]
Interview with the Green
From the Beer Faerie to her great grandaddy, today’s interview is with the Green Man from Margaret Kingsbury’s haunting spec fic story ‘The Longing is […]
Reviews in the Age of the Internet: Karma Comes to the Castle
When I first discovered that many used books in the UK were one pence plus delivery I went a little crazy. Sequels and missed treasures […]
Interview with a Baker
‘Doughboy Lovers and the Appetites of Desire’ in the current issue of Pulp Literature is a story steeped in myth and magical realism with cautions […]
Interview with the Muse
Wouldn’t you love to pin your Muse down and ask her a few pointed questions? Susan Pieters managed it with Capture of the Muse in […]