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FictionNew mystery series to follow Imogene Durant through cities across the globe
In Victor & Me in Paris, the first in the new Imogene Durant Mystery series by Edmonton writer Janice MacDonald, retired academic Imogene Durant heads to Paris – with beloved French writer Victor Hugo as her guide – to read and to work on a followup to her notable book Fyodor & Me in Russia. -
FictionParallel narrative and playfulness mark Grayson’s return to adult fiction
With her new novel, The Twistical Nature of Spoons, Winnipeg author Patti Grayson returns to adult fiction after a brief foray into middle years/YA fiction. She appears to have kept a childlike sense of playfulness and wonder, though, in this story of magic and curses. -
PoetryWith six takes on the apocalypse and meditations on anger, Knife on Snow is oddly hopeful
Alice Major’s new poetry collection, Knife on Snow, began with the mysterious appearance of a knife in the snow of her backyard. “Somehow this ordinary, inexplicable object on the untrodden white really spooked me. It also made me realize how much I feel this piece of property is ‘mine.’ -
FictionAction-packed story revolves around identity theft, and one man’s worst day ever
Everyone has bad days. However, John Hancock, the protagonist of Stealing John Hancock by H&A Christensen, has had the worst day of all time. -
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PoetryPoet explores displacement, migration, and colonialism in debut collection
Joanne Leow’s debut collection of poetry, Seas Move Away, weaves together narratives of movement, displacement, migration, and return. “This collection is dedicated ‘to those who move away,’” she says. -
FictionMennonites do have a sense of humour, and Andrew Unger’s collection proves it
In the follow-up to his award-winning debut novel, Once Removed, Steinbach-based author Andrew Unger returns to familiar territory with The Best of the Bonnet, a selection of articles from The Daily Bonnet, the website where he has posted approximately 2,300 satirical news articles over the last five years. -
FeaturesTurnstone Press turns 45, stays true to its roots
The year 2021 marks the 45th anniversary of Turnstone Press. As the story goes, Turnstone sprang from a get-together at a local Winnipeg pub. There, Robert Enright, Dennis Cooley, John Beaver, David Arnason, Wayne Tefs, and Daniel Lenoski discussed creating a collection of poetry books to bring light to a huge wellspring of Manitoba writing that was being overlooked by the mainstream. -
PoetryCollection comes together through staying with poems, letting themes reveal themselves
For Manitoba poet Sarah Klassen, writing poems is an exercise in waiting. The process she went through for her newest collection of poetry, The Tree of Life, was no different. -
PoetryDebut poetry collection considers transitions under the Prairie sky
Sarah Ens’s first collection of poetry, The World Is Mostly Sky, is a closely observed exploration of her rural Prairie roots, as well as the landscape’s – and the sky’s – changing physical and emotional resonances. -
FictionArchivist turns to her own family history, and considers how to live with its legacy
All That Belongs, the latest novel by Dora Dueck, tells the story of Catherine, a newly retired archivist, who decides to spend the next year examining her life story and those of her deceased Mennonite predecessors to gain insight into her family history.
