
| Volume XXXI Number 2 | Fall 2021 |
| Editors | Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor |
| Cover | Matthew O’Reilly |
| Poetry Winners | |
| Matthew King | Two-Faced Kitten, and Other Freaks of Nature |
| Michael Fraser | Things to Do Around Edmonton When You’re Black |
| Bret Crowle | Drumheller |
| Lisa Richter | What the Fool Remembers |
| Prose Winners | |
| Zilla Jones | Pie Jesu |
| Calvin Minions | Sasha Lived on a Farm |
| Neil C. Griffin | The Bus to the Massacre Site Leaves in Ten Minutes |
| Dan Auger | Blood Memory |
| Micheline Maylor Prize for Poetic Excellence | |
| Laura Zacharin | Please Don’t Put Your Leftover Lunch in the Chat Box |
| Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award | |
| Bruce Meyer | Pas de Deux |
| Micah Jansen | The Slightly Awkward and Mildly Entertaining Tale of a Low-Grade Lifeguard |
| Poetry | |
| Dan MacIsaac | Bull Kelp Chameleon |
| Cheryl White | At My Back |
| Matt Sutton | If I Was at Home I Wouldn’t Need This Drink in the First Place A Letter to Bukowski From a Previous Lover on Her Death Bed |
| Alec Whitford | The Whiffle Ball |
| Shannon Barry | Tendinitis |
| Marlene Grand Maître | Riven Heeding Water’s Voice |
| Russell Thornton | While You Brushed Your Hair |
| Jonathan Greenhause | The Day Abraham Lincoln & I Went Bowling |
| Brian Day | The Fisherman’s Wife A Tapestry |
| Mary Ann Moore | A Ceremony in the Forest |
| Barbara Pelman | Lost Names |
| Joanna Drummond | Will-o’-wisp |
| Zack Beer | (non) Binary |
| Tonya Lailey | Don’t Bring Me Flowers |
| Lynn Tait | The Enemies I Cannot See |
| Michael Fraser | Solstice |
| Lisa Richter | Three Years, Two Months and Twelve Days After My Father Dies Overseas |
| Essay | |
| Micheline Maylor | Confessional Poets Now |
| Reviews | |
| Annie Wesko | If Sylvie Had Nine Lives by Leona Theis Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio |
| Catherine Owen | First by Arleen Paré |
| Vincent Potter | Shelter for the Damned by Mike Thorn |
| Skylar Kay | For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe by Gary Barwin All the Animals on Earth by Mark Sampson Music From a Strange Planet by Barbara Black |
