Introduction
5 Alicia Elliott: Whatever We Need It To Be
Creative Nonfiction
7 Ania Mroczek: It's Necessary to Talk About Trees
13 Jill M. Talbot: Checkmate
23 Zarrin Darnel-Martin: Garlic Pussy
28 Tyler Dunning: Eldon, Missouri
32 Mikka Jacobsen: Parlour Tricks
41 Gila Green: Winnipeg, 1987
46 David Rock: Let Me Put it to You This Way
47 Nicholas Herring: The Lives of Milton Acorn
61 R.L. Aseret: Spider Games
65 Erin Soros: I Call This Institutionalized Rape
74 Dominik Parisien: When You Could Not Hear, I Spoke
78 Angela Wright: Other Targets
84 Mary Chen: Of Body
89 Charmaine Ward: Moonstruck
98 Tara Campbell: Soft 'n' Sheepish
104 Jeanie Keough: Somewhere Over Greenland
111 Šari Dale: Eulogy for Pale Lilies
115 Arielle Twist: Soakers
Reviews
120 Ian Colford: “For the Love of Books”
Bookshop: A Reader's History, Jorge Carrión
122 Jennifer Andrews: Wonderworks/Wonderwords
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, Daniel Heath Justice
124 Mark Dickinson: seemingly infinite numbers of fascinating anecdotes
Arrival: The Story of CanLit, Nick Mount
126 Susan Haley: how the knot works
The Summer of the Horse, Donna Kane
128 Richard Cumyn: Shangri-Who?
The Dragon Run, Tony Robinson-Smith
131 Carolyn Richardson: The Permeable Conversationalist
The Larger Conversation: Contemplartion and Place, Tim Lilburn
134 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Braelyn Cyr
Chief Allan Polchies Jr.Waning Summer Light, 2017
Oil and acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 in.
The painting featured on this cover was unveiled during Pride Week in Frederiction (August 10-18, 2018) as part of the Pride Heroes Portrait Project, a project with three main concepts: honour, inspiration, and education. The paintings — six in total featuring local pride heroes — were put up for sale with part of the proceeds going to Rainbow Railroad, a Toronto-based organization that works to help save LGBTQ2+ refugees from state-sanctioned violence across the world.
Chief Allan Polchies Jr., of St. Mary’s First Nation, has risen in the community as a leader as the first two-spirit Chief in Atlantic Canada.
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