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First Fiction Friday: Rage

November 3, 2017

John Mavin's debut short story collection Rage (Thistledown Press) is about forms of rage, its power and presence, how it rears itself. These linked short stories see a priest facing a moral dilemma when he takes a Colombian refugee into sanctuary; a teenage homecoming in ... Read more

First Fiction Friday: Dazzle Patterns

October 27, 2017

Alison Watt's historical novel Dazzle Patterns (Freehand Books) opens on the day of the Halifax Explosion of 1917 - the largest man-made disaster in Canadian history - when a cargo ship carrying explosives collided with another vessel. A story about love, loss, and the ... Read more

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