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Volume XVI Number 1 Contest Issue Theme Prairie
Editor: Vivian Hanson
Guest Editor: Pamela Banting

Fiction
1st Prize: East of White City by Allison Kydd
2nd Prize: The Light by Audrey J. Whitson
Lycanthropy by Kenneth Neufeld
Falmouth Jamaica, by Elizabeth McLean
Lost and Found - Part II by Barbara Howard
Poetry
1st Prize: Trinity by Marilyn Letts
2nd Prize: Summer Sunset by Rebecca Holand
August Hayfield by Edward Dewar
Break loose like a Chinook by Edward Dewar
Caragana Peas and Butterflies by Edward Dewar
dandelions by Wendy Joy
Nonfiction
Prairied Again by Dallas Harrison
Photographs
Lynn Fraser
Monica Kidd

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Volume XVI Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor

Fiction
Wade Bell Nola’s Blouse

Salvatore Difalco The Skunk

C.E. Mandybura Depths of Heart

Errol Scott - The Dempster-Rabbit's One Eye

Carolyn Watson - Jack of All Trades

Poetry
Barry Butson Hamlet on Skates

Rocco de Giacomo Namdaemun Sestina

Untitled

Jesse P. Ferguson Amber

Straja Linder King Haiku

Ingrid Miller Lamonte

Melvin Pasternak Late February Walk

Dianne Reid Front Street Toronto in November

Jonathan A. Reynolds The Nature of Things

Dennis Ross Dreams and Fences

Stone's View

Ginger Eve Rozmus dragon fly

Sandra Savage You Are Your Own Landscape

Bob Stamp Morning Becomes Electric

Over the Rainbow

Jane Stuart Barn Dance

Rosalee van Stelten Bow River

Changming Yuan Name Changing

Nonfiction
Joan Shillington Profile of Richard Harrison
Reviews
K. Gordon Neufeld Caught Between Two Worlds: The

Short Firction of Jacqueline Honnet

Lynn C. Fraser In John Updike's Room
Photographs
Sharon Novak Cabin Door

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Volume XVII Number 1 Contest Issue Theme: LOVE
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Guest Editor: Christopher Wiseman

Fiction Winners
1st Place: Beverly Rasporich True Romance
2nd Place: Lorraine Cathro The Melt
3rd Place: Salvatore Difalco Albert & Boo Boo
Honourable Mentions:
Jenine Safioles A Fable from Hythe
Penny-Anne Beaudoin First Do No Harm

Poetry Winners
1st Place: Chris Wanamaker The closest I ever came to finding love
2nd Place: Salvatore Difalco The Wolf
3rd Place: Wendy Joy Hot Sheets. Really
Honourable Mentions:
Kate Marshall Flaherty The Spaces In Between
Cassy Welburn Rough Crossing

Poetry
Barry Butson Darkest Mirror

Scars of Schoolboys in Love

Barry Roberts Egerton Verowe Saelde

Gail Gernat The Car

Shaun Hunter Mother Nature

Taking Flight

Irene Livingston Dogs and Grand Passions

Kate Marshall Flaherty Another Meditation on Unwinding

Mildred Tremblay A Small Pot of Coffee

Nina Varsava A Portrait of Us: Then and Now

Author Interview
Lynn C. Fraser Paul Anderson

Reviews
Micheline Maylor Swithering

Violet Nesdoly Running Toward Home

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Volume XVII Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor

Fiction
Lori Ann Bloomfield Starring Wanda Plimpton

Salvatore Difalco Sunflowers

Robert Fantina Forsaking All Others

Susan Eldridge-Vautour A Feast of Apples

Poetry
Kathryn Bjornson In Her Cedar Wardrobe

Barry Dempster A Distal Winter’s Night

A Paper Hug

The Last Photograph

Jesse Ferguson Pangaea

Rattle

Julian Gobert Carousel

Lousia Howerow Reflections on a Gift

When Night Stilled Reason

Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck After Reading Silence by Billy Collins

Renee Norman Erasure

Felicia Pacentrilli The Innate Sexuality of

Childhood Games

Dennis Ross Iowa October

Tom Sheehan After Apples, Listening

Cutting Ice on Rapid Tucker’s Pond

Knute Skinner A Lovely Night

Rob Taylor Demolition Site

Davide Trame Pictures From the Home Ground

Interviews
Micheline Maylor Trevor Cole

Jake Uitti Lauren B. Davis

Reviews
Beth Everest Where It Began

Micheline Maylor Pearl

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Volume XVIII Number 1 Contest Issue
Editor: Micheline Maylor

Guest Editor: Karen Connelly

Fiction Winners
1st Place: Carin Makuz Treehouse

2nd Place: Judy Galbraith Homeland Security
3rd Place: Collette Maitland Control - 1969

Honourable Mentions:

Jan Manchur Run Away Fish

Andrea Beca The Disappearing Act

Linda Hutsell-Manning One Friday Night

Poetry Winners
1st Place: Vicki Goodfellow-Duke Nearer In
2nd Place: Sandra Savage Linked
3rd Place: Barbara Green Through the Looking Glass
Honourable Mentions:
Kate Marshall-Flaherty Detachment

Nick Fuller Time Isn't Linear

Juleta Severson-Baker Between Us

Poetry

Vicki Goodfellow-Duke After Socrates

Barbara Green I Imagine Myself Leaping

Kate Marshall-Flaherty Dogwood

Sandra Savage Cortes Island B.C.

Interviews

Lynn C. Fraser Katherine Govier Interview

Reviews

Darlene Louka A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Susan Plett Quick by Anne Simpson

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Volume XVIII Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor

Art
Steve Speer	Hidden Canyon
Poetry
Wade Bell	Nude
Kat Cameron	Blue
Jesse Patrick Ferguson	Breakers
Michael Fraser	Picasso Museum
Elizabeth Greene	Metal Old Cairo
Lousia Howerow	Interrogation During a Flight Connection, Houston Elements The Air is Too Thin For Buds
Jim Johnstone	Cause and Effect
Karen McElrea	The Arrival Ancient History The Long Way Home
Dipika Mukherjee	It May Have Been the Third Glass of Wine
Melvin Pasternak	Curve in The Road Poem Orphanage
Alan Safarik	Foreclosure
K.V. Skeene	Away From The House The Sky Falls Ongoing Accident in University Parks Ongoing
Geoff Stevens	The Decimalisation of Emily
Phoebe Tsang	Cabin Fever with the Tree Pirate The Voice of the Violin
Fiction
Malcolm Dixon	Big Davy’s Baptism by Mud
Susan Eldridge	Zapatos
Tim Lehnert	The Arrival
Tom Sheehan	The Man With The Broken Crutch
Interview
Lynn C. Fraser	Interview: Roberta Rees
Reviews
Lynn C. Fraser	Review: Imagination in Action
Susan Plett	Review: Wiser Pills
Dan St. Yves	Review: The Best Laid Plans

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Volume XIX Number 1
Editor: Micheline Maylor
Guest Editor: Austin Clarke

Art
Wallace Zawadski	Reflection
Fiction Winners
First Place Paul Sammartino	The White Tiger
Second Place Angela Day	Buryin’ Day Today
Third Place Diane Fretz	Searching for the Pebble
Honourable Mention Beverly Rasporich	The Clay Medallion
Poetry Winners
First Place Rosemary Griebel	Walking with Walt Whitman through Calgary’s Eastside My father comes back as a draught horse
Second Place Joan Shillington	A Kitchen Poem A Measure of Taste
Third Place Pamela Porter	Witness
Honourable Mention Angelo Giambra	Timothy, On Foot
Editor’s Choice
David Miller	Seeds
Jennifer Stone	Fragile Blue and Creamy White
Pamela Porter	Sestina: Museum of Grief
Linda Frank	Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream
Juleta Severson-Baker	Hailing Home What Remains
Louisa Howerow	The Couple in the Plaza On Nine Mile Road
Frances Hern	Screws
Interview
Lynn C. Fraser	Interview with Melanie Little
Reviews
Annie Vigna	Review: Ragged Company
Kristen Ingram	Review: A Crack in the Wall
Micheline Maylor	Review: Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets

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Volume XIX Number 2
Editor: Micheline Maylor

Art
Will Pursell	Organic Ink
Fiction
Kim Firmston	Life Before War
Aaron Kreuter	Garages
Bonner Litchfield	Shortfall
Inge Trueman	A Rootbeer Season
Carolyn Watson	Armed With Knowledge
Crystal Wood	Safe Words
Poetry
Wade Bell	Moonlight
Louise Carson	She set the woods on fire
Deidre Dwyer	Century Farm
Elizabeth Greene	Imaginary Cities
Louisa Howerow	Stepping Out of the Family Wedding In the Face of Extreme Heat
Anna Jaquiery	Neighbours
Mark McBride	After She’d Written me 10,000 Words
Sherry O’Keefe	Trailing
Doug Ramspeck	The End of Self
Juleta Severson-Baker	The Nights of Galileo Galilei Sir Issac’s Loves Love Poem for Tycho Brahe
Abigail A. Zammit	Gecko
Interview
Lynn C. Fraser	Interview with Marina Endicott
Reviews
Chris Dodd	Review: The Mechanical Bird
Leah Gillis	Review: String of Mysteries
Kate Marlow	Review: Good Morning Comrades
Phillip Mattie	Review: The Tales of Beedle The Bard

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