Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice

 •  October 20

NATALIE RICE is the author of Nightjar (Gaspereau Press, 2025) and Scorch (Gaspereau Press,2023). Her poems have appeared in journals such as...

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Poetry: “Steve and I travel to Calgary” by Christina Shah

 •  October 11

CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected...

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Poetry: “The Flies” by Dennis Cooley

 •  August 11

DENNIS COOLEY has been active on the Prairies as poet, editor, critic and publisher. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the League of...

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Non-Fiction: “Predator, Prey” by Hilary Fair

 •  July 8

HILARY FAIR is a writer from Ontario. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly and is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. Her essays have been...

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Poetry: “I Am Afraid of the Magnolia Blossoms” by Hayden Ward

 •  June 11

HAYDEN WARD is a writer and musician living in Tiohti:áke/Montreal on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. He holds a BA in...

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Fiction: “Recognition” by Sara Heinonen

 •  May 13

SARA HEINONEN’s story collection Dear Leaves, I Miss You All (Mansfield Press, 2013) was shortlisted for a 2014 ReLit Award. Her fiction has...

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Poetry: “Glazing” by Michael Goodfellow

 •  March 28

MICHAEL GOODFELLOW is the author of the poetry collections Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg...

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Fiction: “Cut Off” by Zilla Jones

 •  February 27

ZILLA JONES is an African-Canadian woman writing in Treaty 1 (Winnipeg). In 2023, she won the Journey Prize and was shortlisted for the Bronwen...

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Poetry: “High Risk Potentially Lethal” by Jónína Kirton

 •  January 21

JÓNÍNA KIRTON, a Red River Métis and Icelandic poet, was 61 when she received the 2016 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in...

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Fiction: “Net” by Alex Leslie

 •  November 26

ALEX LESLIE has published two collections of poetry, The things I heard about you (Nightwood, 2014) and Vancouver for Beginners (Book*hug,...

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