ArticlesIssue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22
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FictionAnthology explores women’s concussions, grapples with meaning of recovery
The anthology Impact: Women Writing After Concussion is a collection of work that sheds light on the array of symptoms associated with concussion, showing how over 20 writers who have had concussions manage their personal and professional lives. Jane Cawthorne and E. D. Morin, co-editors of the book, count themselves among those writers. -
FeaturesScholar-activist considers de-growth for a sustainable future
Worldwide recognition of climate change highlights the need for economic, social, and environmental sustainability. It is within this context that Noel Keough wrote Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City with Geoff Ghitter, using Calgary as a microcosm of global issues. -
FeaturesNovella asks what world could become ‘if people don’t take climate change seriously’
Climate change continues to make alterations to the world in unpredictable ways, the impact of which will change billions of lives. It is a scenario that an increasing number of people are worried about. And that concern is at the core of The Annual Migration of Clouds. -
FeaturesSagas with environmental undertones leave room for readers to fill in the blanks
Stories are a staple of all world cultures. They convey new ideas and older history. And such stories are at the core of Harold R. Johnson’s new novel, The Björkan Sagas. -
FeaturesBeaty threads hope for a better future through collection examining impacts of global warming
Georgina Beaty is a successful playwright and actor raised in the Rockies and based in Toronto. Now her accomplished debut story collection The Party Is Here fuses relationships and climate change. -
Non-FictionKohlman’s second cookbook incorporates veggie notes from farmer boyfriend
Renée Kohlman describes her second cookbook as “a love story about food and a food story about love.” It is appropriate, therefore, that “Asparagus and Eggs” is the first recipe in its pages, honouring the asparagus her partner Dixon Simpkins, a farmer, presented to her on their first date. -
Non-FictionScholar studies Métis spirituality to help reconnect people to the healing power of ceremony
When University of Winnipeg Michif scholar Chantal Fiola began learning about Indigenous ceremonies as an MA student at the University of Toronto, she did not expect her experiences to lead to groundbreaking research. Ten years later, and now an associate professor in the Urban and Inner-City Studies Department at the University of Winnipeg, Fiola is releasing her second book about Métis spirituality, Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities. -
Non-FictionMemoir an ode to Indigenous Elders, with hope for helping others to heal
Nicola I. Campbell, a Nłeʔkepmx, Syilx, and Métis writer from British Columbia, has written a powerful memoir, Spíləxm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, Resurgence. The book combines prose and poetry to tell her journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma, while finding strength through traditional perspectives of healing and transformation. -
Non-FictionMemoir makes use of ‘outlier forms,’ including word search, crossword puzzle
Rowan McCandless, currently the creative non-fiction editor at The Fiddlehead, is a Winnipeg writer whose short story “Castaways” was long-listed for the Journey Prize, and whose essay “Found Objects” won the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize. -
Non-FictionAuthors make case for schools to be as inclusive as possible for 2SLGBTQ+ students
The school environment can be difficult to navigate for any young person. Students who are 2SLGBTQ+ are especially challenged when the expression of their sexuality or gender is perceived as a threat to a school’s values. How Canadian law responds to the “competing human rights claims” of people asserting sexual minority rights and those asserting religious rights is explored in Making the Case: 2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools.
