Fiction: Douglas H. Glover, Walter Kellythorne, and Rohinton Mistry.
Poetry: Bert Almon, Mike Barnes, Elizabeth Brewster, Sharon Carlson-Berge, Fred Cogswell, Glen Downie, Robert Gibbs, Ernest Hekkanen, Laurence Hutchman, Kevin Irie, A.F. Moritz, Alden Nowlan, James Quandt, Ken Rivard, Peter Sanger, Mary Tilberg, Lionel Willis, Carol Windley, and John Zanes.
Reviews: Anthony Brennan and Barbara Godard.
Fiction: Shiela Delany, Bruce Hunter, D.A. Leyden, Margot Livesey, and M. Anne Mitton.
Out of Place: Eric Trethewey.
Poetry: John Barton, Stephen Brockwell, Audrey Conard, Marlene Cookshaw, Philip Gardner, N.C. Hough, M. Travis Lane, and Leslie Nutting.
Reviews: Marget Harry, Eric Thompson, J.A> Wainwright, Liliane Welch, Terry Whalen, and Alan R. Young.
Fiction: Brian Bartlett, and Carol Shields.
Out of Place: Peter Sanger.
Interview: Martine Jacquot.
Poetry: Milton Acorn, David Beaver, Joshua Bendah, Greg Betts, Aaron Bushkowsky, Lesley Choyce, Dino Felluga, Robert Harding, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Walter MacDonald, Steve Noyes, Hillel Schwartz, Lorne Simon, and Douglas Smith.
Reviews: Harold Barratt, Anthony Brennan, Ian Glaskell, Bruce Greenfield, Jon Kertzer, Richard Paul Knowles, Louis K. MacKendrick, Michael Thorpe, and Alan R. Young.
Fiction: Fred Bonnie, Leon Rooke, and Joan Fern Shaw.
Poetry: Stephen Carter, Anne Cimon, Allan Cooper, Jeffrey Donaldson, Ingrid Fiske, D. Gutteridge, Ken J. Harvey, Tim Hoppy, Stuart Holtby, John Lavery, Michael Brian Oliver, Bruce Rice, R. Rolfe, Michael B. Turner, and Laurie Anne Whitt.
Out of Place: Liliane Welch.
Reviews: W.J. Keith, John Kertzer, Lorraine McMullen, Kathleen Tudor, and J.A. Wainwright.
Feature: Aldan Nowlan.
Fiction: Mena Orford, Anne Marriott, and Armin Wiebe.
Poetry: Sharon Berg, Robert Boudreau, John Brebner, Fred Candelaria, Tim Hoppy, Stanley Wm. Rogal, Carol Shields, Eric Trethewey, Brian Tyson, Nick Wermuth, Chris Wills, and Patricia Young.
Reviews: Michael Darling, Richard Paul Knowles, Carrie MacMillan, Randall Maggs, and Liliane Welch.
Fiction: Heather Fawcett, Douglas Glover, and Lesley Choyce.
Poetry: John Ditsky, M.B. Duggan, S.D. Harasym, George Elliott Clarke, Jeffery Donaldson, Katherine Soniat, Chistopher Levenson, Dwight Kostjuk, Erin Mouré, Alice Fulton, James Deahl, Elizabeth Philips, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Edward Gates, Mark Sanders, Gary Lundy, and Joe Blades.
Out of Place: Alden Nowlan.
Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Ann Munton, Liliane Welch, and Andrew T. Seaman.
Fiction: David Etheridge, Raymond Filip, Reg Silvester, and Al Pittman.
Out of Place: Reshard Gool.
Poetry: M. Travis Lane, John Mighton, Alden Nowlan, S. Brown, Don Domanski, Cathy Ford, C.H. Gervais, Joy Kogawa, Gertrude Story, Charles Lillard, Stephen Carter, Michael Anderson, Lynn Merril, Peter Sanger, John V. Hicks, and Amanda Hale.
Reviews: W.J. Keith, Terry Whalen, Guy Hamel, Michael Taylor, Barbara Godard, Margaret Harry, Louis K. MacKendrick, Bruce Whiteman, Jon Kertzer, Freg Cogswell, Thomas B. Vincent, and Richard Paul Knowles.
Fiction: Paula Butler, Leon Rooke, Allan Donaldson, and Stephen Ecton.
Out of Place: Milton Acorn.
Poetry: Bill Howell, Marlene Cookshaw, Liliane Welch, Andrew Greig, Edward Gates, Rienzi Crusz, Elspeth Bradbury, Robin Robertson, Ken Norris, Michael C. Kenyon, Brian R. Cornell, James Strecker, Richard Stevenson, Ron Charach, Heather Lee Crosby, Kevin Cawley, and John Brebner.
Reviews: Anne Mandel, M. Travis Lane, Liliane Welch, Michael Brian Oliver, Eric Tethewey, John Mills, and Roy Geiger.
Fiction: Keath Fraser, Ann Copeland, Margot Livesey, Alan Elliott, and Dennis Denisoff.
Out of Place: Elizabeth Jones.
Poetry: Gregory M. Cook, Mildred A. Rose, Len Gasparini, Dermot McCarthy, Lea Harper, Joseph Dolhanty, Larry Towell, Susan M. Andrews, Maggie Helwig, Robert M. Chute, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, and Roger Nash.
Reviews: Guy Hamel, Anthony S. Brennan, Barry Cameron, Anne Blott, Louis K. MacKendrick, M. Travis Lane, Bruce Whiteman, and Robert Gibbs.
Fiction: Helen Weinzweig, Wayne Wright, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and David Carpenter.
Interview: Nancy Bauer.
Out of Place: Douglas Lochead, and David Adams Richards.
Poetry: Marcia Hurlow, Derk Wynard, Rosemary Blake, Jan E. Conn, Eric Cashen, John Zanes, Dorothy Roberts, Susan Fromberg Schaefer, Jeff Worley, Paddy McCallum, David S. West, Marlene Cookshaw, and Joseph Sherman.
Reviews: Michael Dixon, Barbara Godard, John Mills, Andrew T. Seaman, Michael Taylor, Russell M. Brown, Kent Thompson, Bruce Whiteman, and Jon Kertzer.
Fiction: W.J. Smart, Jane Somerville, Fred Bonnie, and Bryan Moon.
Poetry: Allan Cooper, Jerry M. Rush, Martin Singelton, David McKain, John V. Hicks, Ron Rigley, Lewis Horne, Francois Bonneville, Craig Powell, Yvonne Trainer, Brent MacLaine, and Don Gutteridge.
Reviews: Ann Mandel, M. Travis Lane, Michael Brian Oliver, W.J. Keith, Jon Kertzer, Anthony S. Brennan, and Anne Blott.
Fiction: Mark Jarman, Rochelle Distelheim, Hugh Cook, and Frances Itani.
Poetry: L. A. Farquhar, Roger Nash, Elspeth Bradbury, Peter Sanger, S.Kerslake, St.-John Simmons, Kathryn Deneau, Virginia Scott, Bill Howell, Kathleen Lignell, Erin Mouré, Daniel David Moses, Karen Bodlak, and M. Travis Lane.
Reviews: Guy Hamel, Anthony S. Brennan, Carrie MacMillan, M. Travis Lane, Allan Cooper, and Gillian Davies.
Fiction: Joan Clark, Ernest Hekkanen, and M. Anne Mitton.
Poetry: Ted Kulik, Don Summerhayes, George Perreault, Mike Barnes, Naomi Rachel, Alan Perry, Cecelia Frey, Robert Wiljer, Bert Almon, Patricia Young, Mary Di Michele, Linda Bierds, and Paula Bonnell.
Reviews: John Mills, Stephen Scobie, M. Travis Lane, Michael Taylor, Robert Gibbs, Ellen Quigley, George Dretzsky, Anthony Bukoski, Gillian Davies, and Fred Cogswell.
Poetry: Barry Dempster, David Andrus, Ian Dempsey, Kris Larson, Neile Graham, Bruce Meyer, Michael Czuma, Mark Sanders, Dorothy Roberts, Lela Parlow, Sally Harasym, Patricia Alpert, and David Hickey.
Fiction: Larry Rowdon, John Metcalf, and Don Dickinson.
Reviews: Guy Hamel, W.J. Keith, Michael Dixon, Joseph Gold, John Mills, Anthony S. Brennan, Jon Kertzer, M. Travis Lane, Eric Trethewey, Don Precosky, and Gillian Davies.
Fiction: Bill Longstaff, and Gerald Lynch.
Poetry: Richard Lemm, Cyril Dabydeen, John Lee, Gregory Cook, Dawn Rae Downton, George McWhirter, Grant Heckman, Barbara Powis, Ron Charach, Linda Bierds, and Anne Marriott.
Drama: Tom Crothers.
Reviews: Anne Blott, Michael Dixon, Michael Taylor, Barbara Godard, Anthony S. Brennan, and Jon Kertzer.
Fiction: Leon Rooke, Miriam Waddington, Philip Milner, and Joel Yanofsky.
Poetry: Tom Wayman, Ellen Siegel Wolfe, Neil Cole, Gordon Turner, Allan Cooper, Mark Lowey, M. Joan Macleod, Jeffery Donaldson, Garry Raddysh, Lewis Horne, Paul Belserene, Eugene McNamara, Kay Smith, Mike Barnes, Mark Defoe, John Bruce, Jerome Micho, Lorna Uher, and Kim Maltman.
Reviews: Barbara Godard, John Mills, Michael Brian Oliver, George Dretzsky, Michael Taylor, Roger Ploude, Anthony Brennan, J.M. Kertzer, Eric Trethewey, Carrie MacMillan, Don Precosky, D.W. Russell, and Gillian Davies.
Poetry: Alfred G. Bailey, Elizabeth Brewster, Fred Cogswell, Robert Gibbs, Kent Thompson, John P. Zanes, Alden Nowlan, Michael Brian Oliver, Robert Cockburn, Marjory Donaldson, Theodore Colson, M. Travis Lane, Peter Thomas, William Bauer, Randall Maggs, Robert Alan Burns, and David S. West.
Fiction: Cynthia Holz, Kevin Roberts, Frances Itani, Fred Bonnie, and Stephen Boston.
Poetry: Ken Norris, Brian Purdy, Daniel David Moses, E.M. Schorb, Rachel Bonacci, Alan Mackenzie, John V. Hicks, Mike Czuma, Alan Kennedy, Jill Elizabeth Dunderdale, Daniel Adams, Leona Keenan, Mike Barnes, Barry Dempster, Joy Kogawa, Betty Ann McDorman, Roger Nash, and Jim Joyce.
Reviews: Anita Lahey, Clarisssa Hurley, Emily Skov-Nielsen, Ryan Gaio, and Mark Dickinson.
Fiction: Bill Gaston, Rita Rosenfeld, William A Bauer, and Irene Stewart.
Poetry: Bill Gaston, Rita Rosenfeld, Derk Wynand, Eric A. C. Miller, Harold Rhenisch, Nicholas Mason-Browne, Shiela Demetre, Doug Grenville, Brian Henderson, Dorothy Roberts, Erin Mouré, John Zanes, David Citino, M.L. Pollard, Mark Abley, Kris Larson, Ken Duffin, Rosemary Aubert, and Anne Szumigalski.
Reviews: Paul McNally, Sharon Nicoll, Eric Trethewey, John Mills, Barbara Godard, and Jack David.
Poetry: Leigh Faulkner, Elizabeth Brewster, Liliane Welch, Allan Cooper, Peter Thomas, Beckie Leaman, Frances Itani, Audrey Conard, Terrance Cox, Daniel Adams, B. Vanderlip, Agha Ali, Heather Cadsby, Lois Beebe Hayna, Janet Durno, Richard Lemm, Dave Margoshes, Tim Merrill, Paddy McCallum, and Bert Almon.
Fiction: M. Anne Mitton, Joan Fern Shaw, and Elin Elgaard.
Reviews: Robert Gibbs, Michael Brian Oliver, Stan Dragland, Roy Geiger, Don Precosky, Louis K. MacKendrick, Anthony S. Brennan, Kathleen Tudor, and D. W. Russell.
Fiction: Leon Rooke, Elizabeth Brewster, Theresa Kishkan, D. J. Kushner, and Alexandre Amprimoz.
Poetry: Andrew Bartlett, Wayne MacPhail, Rosemary Blake, Marilyn Bowering, Don Conway, Sharon Berg, Jane Urquhart, Catherine A. Crosby, C. M. Buckaway, Rhea Tregebov, Heather Barclay, Patricia Jasper, Cathy Ford, Mary J. Surguine, Emily Sion, Kristjana Gunnars, Nancy Taylor, Clare Beghtol, Marc Hudson, Suzanne Collins, Leona Gom, Tom Wayman, Susan Glickman, Simon Leigh, Michael Pacey, Kim Maltman, and Mark Frutkin.
Reviews: Michael Taylor, Anthony S. Brennan, John Mills, Gwendolyn Davies, Stephen Scobie, Douglas Barbour, Michael Brian Oliver, Eric Trethewey, M. Travis Lane, Paul McNally, David S. West, Fred Cogswell, and Gillian Davies.
Fiction: Barry Dempster, Kenneth Radu, Ernest Hekkanen, Rolaine Hokstein, and Ann Copeland.
Poetry: Stephen Guppy, Ron Miles, John Flood, Helen Porter, R. A. Kawalilak, Allan Cooper, Maria Jacobs, Kathleen Lignell, Susan Schaeffer, Leigh Faulkner, Stephen E. Smith, David Romtvedt, Jim Joyce, Rober Ziegler, Charles Lillard, Charles Black, David Hopes, Jim Bennett, Bronwen Wallace, and Daniel D. Moses.
Reviews: Michael Taylor, Stephen Scobie, Guy Hamel, John Mills, Paul McNally, M. Travis Lane, Jean Mallinson, and George Dretzsky.
Fiction: Peter Thomas, Greg Hollingshed, H. J. Hitchins, Ed Kleiman.
Poetry: Dorothy Livesay, J. D. Carpenter, Elfreida Read, Carolyn Zonailo, Kenneth Radu, James Inskeep, Betsy Struthers, Wendy Bishop, Ken Gair, Deborah Godin, Robert A. Burns, and David S. West.
Reviews: Michael Oliver, Michael Dixon, Douglas Barbour, John Mills, Michael Taylor, Anthony Brennan, Jon Kertzer, Carrie MacMillan, and Eric Trethewey.
Fiction: Hugh Hood, Mark Jarman, Barbara Jasiura, Frances Itani, Larry Rowdon, and Brenda Riches.
Poetry: Sharon Chiaferi, Allan Cooper, Liliane Welch, Brian Bartlett, Marsha Mitchell, John Currie, John Lent, Mildred Rose, Robert Hillies, Walter Wason, Gord Ripley, Barry Dempster, Paul Cook, Lawrence Mathews, Rosemary Aubert, Blane Despres, Jan Webber, Sandra Foushee, Phil Cope, Len Gasparini, Paul Boudreau, Paul Gotro, Hilary Thompson, Carol Jane Bangs, Jeanne Murray Walker, Craig Powell, Patrick White, and Rita Rosenfeld.
Reviews: Guy Hamel, Sam Solecki, M. Travis Lane, David West, Robert Gibbs, Chaviva Hosek, Paul McNally, Jack David, Anthony Brennan, Michael Taylor, and John Mills.
Fiction: Sara Stambaugh, Douglas Glover, David Haskins, Ken Stange, Gerald Lynch, and George Szanto.
Poetry: Raymond Filip, Elizabeth Jones, Rienzi Crusz, Timothy Shay, John Hicks, Colin Morton, Patricia Young, Susan Carlisle, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mary Gurguine, M. Bluger, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Wright, Nathan Cervo, Suzanne Marie Hobbs, Hillel Schwartz, and David Conn.
Reviews: Dennis Duffy, Peter Thomas, Sam Solecki, Robert Lecker, John Mills, Michael Taylor, Anthony Brennan, Jon Kertzer, Joseph Sherman, M. Travis Lane, and Gillian Davies.
Fiction: Elizabeth Brewster, Peter Crowell, Michael Smith, William Bauer, Jeff Lipkis, and Erika Ritter.
Poetry: Robert Lietz, Donald Ward, Mark Jarman, W. J. Smart, Ann Fox Chadonnet, D. Conway, Kathy Tyler, Mary Di Michele, Allan Safarik, Leigh Faulkner, Jean Berett, David Conn, Kenneth Radu, Susan Zimmerman, David West, Ken Norris, Maureen McCarthy, William Elliott, Mike Czuma, David Solway, Elizabeth Gourlay, and M. Travis Lane.
Reviews: John Mills, Jon Kertzer, Anthony Brennan, Michael Brian Oliver, M. Travis Lane, Alan Young, and Bill Bauer.
Fiction: Reg Silvester, David Waltner, Fred Bonnie, James Ross, Robert Gibbs, and Patience Wheatley.
Poetry: Alex Stiber, Emily Sion, C. S. Giscombe, H. C. Dillow, Cathie Pelletiere, Fred Cogswell, Howard Koopferstock, David Young, Rod Willmot, Ronald Hambleton, Len Dickey, Lawrence Mathews, Heather Cadsby, Dohn Ditsky, Janine Zwicky, Philip Lee, Carl Edgar Law, John Steffler, David Halliday, Henrietta Thompson, Don Gutteridge, Alfred G. Bailey, Wade Hancock, Sparling Mills, Alan Kennedy, and Christopher Wiseman.
Reviews: Guy Hamel, Anthony Brennan, Eugene McNamara, Fred Cogswell, and Barry Cameron.
Poetry: Kevin Roberts, Floyd G. Stuart, Bronwen Wallace, Douglas Barbour, Joseph McLeod, Michael Brian Oliver, Dermot McCarthy, Barry Dempster, Nathan Cervo, Leigh Faulkner, Janet Kask, Olaf Pollmann, Dave Cavanagh, Constance Scheerer, Frederick Zydek, Eric Trethewey, James Harrison, and Rod McDonald.
Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates.
Reviews: Michael Dixon, Chaviva Hosek, Robert Lecker, Stephen Scobie, Michael Brian Oliver, Jack David, and Gillian Davies.
Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen, Ruth Rifka, Olive MacKay Petersen, Brian Barlett, and David Adams Richards.
Poetry: Deborah Godin, Allan Brown, August Kleinzahler, H. W. Connor, Janice Blue-Zwarts, Eric Ivan Berg, Fred Cogswell, John Maxfield, Margo Swiss, M. Travis Lane, Tom Wayman, Brian Henderson, Perry Taylor, N. E. Howard Baker, David Brooks, and Len Gasparini.
Reviews: Michael Taylor, Jon Kertzer, John Mills, Guy Hamel, Robert Gibbs, Douglas Barbour, David R. Scherzer, Edward Mullaly, and Bill Bauer.
Fiction: Eric Trethewey, Clare Beghtol, Morgan Martin, F. W. Watt, and W. D. Valgardson.
Poetry: Salli Ritch-Smith, Glen Sorestad, Ken Watson, Paul Cook, Kim Maltman, Deirdre Ballantyne, Alan Kennedy, Audrey Conard, Don Sawyer, Giles Slade, C. M. Buckaway, Lorna Uher, Sharon Nelson, Michael Harris, Claude Liman, R. Filter, Carolyn Zonailo, Ted Kulik, Marty Gervais, Sharon Olds, Bryan Doubt, Laurence Hutchman, Janie Blue-Zwarts, Craig Rogers, Judith Johnson Sherwin, and Andy Bartlett.
Reviews: Wilfred Crude, Anthony Brennan, Kent Thompson, John Mills, Ian Burgess, Sam Solecki, M. Travis Lane, and Gillian Davies.
Fiction: Allistair MacLeod, Bas van Fraassen, Erika Ritter, Peter Crowell, Edna Alford, and Anne Slomka.
Poetry: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, David Andrus, H. C. Dillow, Michael Todd, Elizabeth Jones, David McFadden, David Waltner-Toews, Michael Brian Oliver, Joseph Sherman, Albert Frank Moritz, Roland Burns, Eugene McNamara, Marilyn Bowering, Rienzi Crusz, Robert Burns, and Tom Wayman.
Reviews: Anthony Brennan, Michael Brian Oliver, Michael Taylor, R. P. Bilan, Dermot McCarthy, M. Travis Lane, and Fred Cogswell.
Fiction: Fred Bonnie, D. J. Cohen, Abraham Boyarsky, Marcel Bénéteau, Pamela Bush, and Suzanne McConnell.
Poetry: Ralph Gustafson, Robert Hawkes, Bob Kirby, Mary Willis, Russell M. Brown, Timothy Shay, Raymond Souster, Donald Guravich, Ed Jewinski, Bruce Falconer, Shawn Thompson, Derk Wynand, Stephen Luxton, Michael Cameron, Ants Reigo, Rod Willmot, Cyril Dabydeen, Julie McNeill, and Robert Burns.
Reviews: Michael Taylor, Fred Cogswell, M. Travis Lane, Gillian Davies, Stan Dragland, and Mary Lund.
Fiction: W. P. Kinsella, Eric Trethewey, Mary Swan, and Elizabeth Brewster.
Poetry: Carolyn Borsman, David Miller, Peter Goodchild, Donald Guravich, Patricia Monk, Myrna Fraser, Lela Parlow, Nance Vanwinckel, Michael Brian Oliver, Fred Cogswell, J. D. Carpenter, Alan Annand, David Brooks, Leigh Faulkner, Margaret Maxfield, Sister Maura, Les Arnold, and M. Travis Lane.
Reviews: Fred Cogswell, Anthony S. Brennan, M. Travis Lane, and Simon Leigh.
Fiction: Rudy Wiebe, Alexandre Amprimoz, Joyce Marshall, and Terry Kelly.
Poetry: Dorothy Livesay, Elizabeth Brewster, Peter Stevens, Anthony Christie, Olaf Pollmann, Leroy Gorman, Theodore Colson, Jan Webber, Lorna Uher, Tom Wayman, Penny Chalmers, Brian Purdy, Dorothy Roberts, Kevin Major, Paula Hopper, Pier Giorgio DiCicco, Claude Liman, Mark Frutkin, Robert Currie, Allan Brown, William Krauss, and Lazar Sarna.
Reviews: Gillian Davies, Mary Lund, Michael Taylor, Peter Thomas, and Simon Leigh.
Fiction: Beth Powning, Frederick Tamminga, Mel Dagg, Fred Bonnie, and Mary Soderstrom.
Poetry: Ian Adam, Richard Hall, Phil Hall, Les Choyce, Jim Stewart, Eric Ivan Berg, Leonard Russo, Elizabeth Brewster, John Maxfield, Calvin Lapp, Gordon Johnston, Albert Frank Moritz, Brian Bartlett, Robert Diotte, Bill Longstaff, Herbert Burke, Timothy Shay, Margaret Maxfield, R. G. Everson, Glen Sorestad, John Stupp, and Dermot McCarthy.
Reviews: Peter Thomas, John Mills, Gillian Davies, Rod Willmot, and Claude G. Liman.
Fiction: Dorothy Grant, Marcia Tager, Alan Annand, Ants Reigo, and Ken Mitchell.
Poetry: Gregory Grace, Keith Henderson, Taylor Graham, Les Arnold, Dawn Downton, Bruce Iserman, Robert Lietz, Don Domanski, Cathie Pelletier, Randall Maggs, Michael Brian Oliver, Dan Leger, Leigh Faulkner, Allan Cooper, Terry Krishkan, and Richard Wollatt.
Drama: Edward Mullaly.
Article: Ralph Gustafson.
Reviews: Stephen Scobie, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Taylor, Allan Donaldson, Gillian Davies, and M. Travis Lane.
Poetry: Don McKay, Joan B. Thornton, Fred Cogswell, Vincenzo Albanese, John Bruce, Lorraine O'Brien, Craig Millage, David S. West, Lois Lindblad, John E. Maxfield, Irene Friedman, Peter Jones, H. C. Dillow, Lawrence Mathews, E. A. K. Roberts, Shawn Thompson, Ron Miles, C. M. Buckaway, Tom Wayman, Rienzi Crusz, Gary Hyland, James Harrison, Jamie Hamilton, and Alan Whiteley.
Fiction: Lucy Miner: Robyn Sarah, D. G. Collier, W. D. Valvargson, and Leon Rooke.
Reviews: Aviva Ravel, Douglas Barbour, Anthony S. Brennan, M. Travis Lane, Daniel Doerksen, Barrie Davies, George McWhirter, and Mary Lund.
Fiction: Margaret Atwood, Fred Bonnie, Marilyn Julian, and Douglas Glover.
Poetry: Randall Maggs, Roland Burns, Neil Besner, Stanley Cooperman, D. R. Hannah, Anne Marriott, Brian Henderson, Robert Burns, Tom Wayman, David McFadden, Graham Adams, Harry Howie, and Bruce Iserman.
Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Brita Mickleburgh, Stan Dragland, John Mills, David Watmough, Steven Overbury, Francis Timleck, Gillian Davies, and Robert Gibbs.
Fiction: C. J. Newman, Sorryl Hoffer, and Brian Bartlett.
Poetry: George Amabile, Robert Bringhurst, Harry Thurston, Robert Cockburn, Elwin Moore, Barbara Rendall, Len Dickey, Sparkle Hayter, and M. Travis Lane.
Reviews: Gillian Davies, Clare MacCulloch, and Mary Lund.
Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates, and Ara Baliozian.
Poetry: Dave Margoshes, Allan Annand, Lawrence Mathews, Cyril Dabydeen, Glen Allen, Don McKay, William Downes, Douglas Barbour, Ralph Gustafson, Claude G. Liman, Elizabeth Jones, Leslie Mobbs, Shawn Thompson, Michael Brian Oliver, Bob Kirby, Dermot McCarthy, Don Gutteridge, Hugh Miller, and Joe Hutchison.
Reviews: Anthony S. Brennan, Russell Hunt, T. D. Maclulich, and M. Travis Lane.
Fiction: Marian Engel, J. G. Blackwell, and Hugh Hood.
Poetry: George Galt, Daniel Adams, Bob Tyhurst, Seymour Mayne, David Day, Terry Nabata, Tom Wayman, George Maddison, Ants Reigo, Eric Ivan Berg, Hans Jewinski, John Zanes, and Barbara Saunders.
Canadian Drama: Edward Mullaly.
Reviews: Kent Thompson, Russell Hunt, and Mary Lund.
Published in 1974, issue one hundred of The Fiddlehead is not only entertaining but a deeply moving celebration, offering a glimpse into the past to see how far the journal has come and to see the words of those who worked so hard to get it to where it is today. A bold sticker – “Take that, Toronto!” – gloats on its cover and sets the stage for editor Kent Thompson’s no-holds-barred editorial in which he takes aim at the literary establishment in Toronto, riffing off his new book review editor’s opinion on literary reviews as “mutual puffery.” According to Thompson, “The other magazines, yes, they do that, all the time . . . and everything he says about reviewing is true to them, but is quite untrue of us. We’re different. We’re better.” We can glimpse the visions and aspirations he had for the magazine.
This issue features important writers. One worth mentioning is Carol Shields who appears in this issue with three short poems romanticizing average quotidian occurrences. In 1993, nearly two decades after being published in our magazine, Shields’ book The Stone Diaries was the recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and in 1995 she won the Pulitzer Prize. Other prominent writers featured in the issue include poet Elizabeth Brewster, a founding member of The Fiddlehead who contributes three poems, and fiction writer Alan Mackenzie. The interpretation of I Ching hexagrams are at the center of one of Brewster’s poems, divided into three sections, each offering a different meaning. Alan MacKenzie’s short story examines the line between life and death and at what point is death considered a gift through the eyes of a seemingly normal high school football player
Another unique characteristic of this issue is that it is scattered with stunning drawings by Robert Percival, which capture human emotions in vulnerable moments. All pictures are set in a hospital and one man reappears throughout the issue in Percival’s drawings. Percival reminds us of our inescapable mortality. The facial expressions on the man’s face exudes pain and sadness. His eyes are the windows to his soul. In one of the drawings, a man is surrounded by health care professionals, but is lonely all the same. Percival does a terrific job in depicting a rather bleak experience, using shadowing techniques to illustrate a hopelessness, an absence of light and happiness.
Bailey Noiles
Intern, February 2022
Fiction: Beverley Mitchell, J. C. Stockdale, Judith J. Ritter, and Lance Woolaver.
Poetry: Mike Finley, Tom Wayman, Sunyata MacLean, Victor Skretkowicz, David Waltner-Toews, Joseph McLeod, Simon Leigh, Gordon White, George Yemec, Fred Ryan, Rosalind MacPhee, Jeremy P. Long, John Bell, John Miller, Ian Adam, Calvin Lapp, Len Gasparini, Rienzi Crusz, John V. Hicks, Martin S. Dworkin, Michael Bronson, Martin Reyto, Jim Colby, G. Traucht, and Rui Afonso.
Reviews: Desmond Pacey, Beverley Mitchell, Stan Dragland, Joseph Sherman, M. Travis Lane, and R. Frauq Hassan.
Fiction: Blanche Hodder, Marilyn Julian, and Fred Bonnie.
Poetry: M. Travis Lane, Mel Dagg, Pat Lowther, Jim Stewart, Michael Muldoon, Carol Shields, Rienzi Crusz, Maria Flook, C. M. Buckaway, John Stupp, F. C. Booker, and Rona Murray.
Reviews: B. D. Barrie, Daniel W. Doerksen, and Allan Donaldson.
Fiction: Ernest Herbert, Peter Madden, and Esme Clemence.
Poetry: Peter Stevens, E. J. Carson, Helen Hawley, E. Belgrave, Robert A. Hedin, Calvin Lapp, Al Pittman, Tom Wayman, Ray Freed, Patrick White, Brian Bartlett, E. A. K. Roberts, John Stevens Wade, H. C. Dillow, Robert Currie, Holly Delaven, Thomas Sexton, and Don Gutteridge.
Reviews: Edward Mullaly, Kent Thompson, Anthony Boxill, Alden Nowlan, Robert Sorfleet, and Brenda Fleet.
Fiction: David Reiter, Leon Rooke, Sharon Pollock, and Helen Rosta.
Poetry: 422-902-510 HB, Brendan Galvin, Seymour Mayne, Susan Musgrave, Alden Nowlan, Anne Marriott, M. Travis Lane, Joe Hutchison, Micere (Githae) Mugo, Sean Virgo, Lorraine Vernon, Robert Kroetsch, C. H. Gervais, Mark Sarner, Rienzi Crusz, John Zanes, Richard McNulty, Michael Bronson, Donald M. Murray, Dan A. Barker, Marilyn Zanes, Jeannine Dobbs, Brendan Galvin, and Charles Lillard.
Reviews: M. Travis Lane, John G. Moss, and Joseph Sherman.
Fiction: Rudy Wiebe, Brian Bartlett, Alice Bliss, Vic Kowal, Abraham Boyarsky, Catherine Petroski, Daniel Moyano, Jean-Guy Carrier, and David Adams Richards.
Poetry: Gary Ross, Susan Schaeffer, Norman Nathan, Ray Boxer, Emily Sion, David Conn, Calvin Lapp, E. J. Carson, Harry Thurston, Robert L. McRoberts, Michael Brian Oliver, Maurice Gibbons, Linda Wilkene Johnson, Robert Walters, and Charles Black.
Reviews: Kent Thompson, Anthony Boxill, and Brian Bartlett.
Fiction: Hugh Hood, Victor Carl Friesen, Frederick Busch, and D. G. Collier.
Poetry: Frank R. Maloney, David Adams Richards, M. Travis Lane, Eugene McNamara, Peter Stevens, Sunyata MacLean, C. M. Buckaway, Douglas Blazek, Charles Koltz, E. J. Carson, Douglas Collin, Florence McNeil, Patrick White, Carl Lauppe, William Virgil Davis, Richard Hillman, Bhikku Bannister, Leona Gom, Mary Willis, Mel Dagg, Sid Stephen, Richard Sommer, Stan Dragland, John V. Hicks, Judy McGillivary, Gail Fox, Les Arnold, Gregory M. Cook, and J. M. C. Alexander.
Reviews: Mel Dagg, William Prouty, David Arnason, Nancy Bauer, T. Colson, Richard Adams, Joseph Sherman, and Robert Gibbs.
Fiction: Beatrice Green and Kent Thompson.
Poetry: Joseph Sherman, Michael Patrick O'Connor, Tom Wayman, Fred Cogswell, Margo Swiss, Pat Lowther, Robert Read, and George Amabile.
Reviews: B. D. Barrie, Patricia Paget, T. Colson, Richard Adams, Mel Dagg, Peter Pacey, and John Robert Sorfleet.
Fiction: Peter Mitcham, Leon Rooke, and W. D. Valgardson.
Poetry: Avi Boxer, T. J. Henighan, Jim Brodie, Sid Stephen, Kathleen Forsythe, Riezi Crusz, Sunyata MacLean, Elizabeth Brewster, Ann Jones, Philip Gallo, D. H. Sullivan, Peter Richardson, Mike Esok, Janice Blue, Toni Zimmerman, Marius Kociejowski, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Terrence Heath, William C. Cavanaugh, David Solway, Ian Staveley, William Virgil Davis, Tod Carney, Calvin A. Lapp, and John Millett.
Film Script: Stephen Boston.
Reviews: John Nugent, M. Travis Lane, Carole Spray, and Kent Thompson.
