
Featuring 2022/23 Prose and Poetry Contest Winners
| Volume XXXIII Number 2 | Fall 2023 |
| Editors | Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor |
| Cover | Warrior I am by Mitchell Brown |
| Poetry Winners | |
| Alec Whitford | Ode to My Father |
| Ronna Bloom | Prayer for the Day |
| David Martin | Of Her Eyes |
| Alec Whitford | The Punk Hoodie |
| Prose Winners | |
| R.J. Hurl | Helios. or Goodbye. Goodnight. |
| Jonathan Van Elslander | The River |
| Kaitlin Ruether | Coral is Dead |
| Julie Trimingham | Bunny |
| Murgatroyd Monaghan | The Newborn Photographer |
| Daryl Sneath | What Makes Us Love |
| Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award | |
| Ashley-Rae Carter-Wells | Witch, Please |
| Poetry | |
| Rayanne Haines | 42 Facts About Hummingbirds |
| Jonathan Greenhause | A Retiree Lost in 3 Sonnets |
| Miles Forrester | From Slow Town Arias: Like a Halted Pirouette |
| Ian FitzGerald | The Stiffer the Bristle, the Better the Brush (off) Depth |
| Atma Frans | I Picture My Father That Day With My Dove |
| Mike Sluchinski | Honeyflight (Nipawin Bound) Stopping for 2 Hells Angels at Borden Before Town |
| Emily Cann | Inflorescence, Fig Wasp |
| Jana Tzanakos | Me Time |
| Leanne Shirtliffe | Ode to Prairie Hotels |
| Barbara Pelman | On the Canal, Tortuguero |
| Diana Hayes | Otter Bay Squalls Postcards From the Skeena |
| Steven Ross Smith | Afloat |
| Ronna Bloom | Restaurants I Have Cried In |
| Lorne Daniel | The Thing |
| Mary Vlooswyk | Your White Wolf: A Cento |
| Michelle Yeo | That Day in East Sooke |
| Essay | |
| Patti Edgar | Coyote City |
| Reviews | |
| Mary Vlooswyk | Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
| Kim Fahner | It Begins in Salt by Natalie Meisner |
| Skylar Kay | How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney |
| Megan Nega | How to Hold a Pebble by Jaspreet Singh |
| Pearl Pirie | Openwork and Limestone by Frances Boyle |
| Yvonne Blomer | Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children by Kerry Ryan |
| Skylar Kay | Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green |
