FreeFall Digital Launch Volume 30 Number 1 and Patrick Lane Tribute Issue
June 30, at 7:00 pm MDT. Join on Facebook and YouTube as we launch this incredible double issue
2019 Annual Prose and Poetry Short List
Prose The Thief, the Crier, and those Damned Dark AgesPhoebe’s Five-Finger RevoltFluidBy the NumbersRoll, Pitch, and YawBloomsConservationGloriaThe Canary’s CallingThree BucksA Tea Party for NomiBarred with WhiteThe Voynich Manuscript Poetry Arc…
Review of Randy Lundy’s “Field Notes for the Self”
by Micheline Maylor Field Notes for the Self by Randy Lundy University of Regina Press (2020) ISBN 9780889776937 Field Notes for the Self, Randy Lundy’s fifth full-length collection, reaches towards…
Review of Randy Nikkel Schroeder’s “Arctic Smoke”
by Mike Thorn Arctic Smoke: A Novel by Randy Nikkel Schroeder NeWest Press (2019) ISBN 978-1-988732-70-1 Randy Nikkel Schroeder’s Arctic Smoke does not simply inhabit its multiple genres, but instead…
Interview with Denise Chong
by Jamal Ali A third-generation Chinese-Canadian, Denise Chong, the internationally published and award-winning writer, was born in Vancouver and raised in Prince George. She studied economics at the University…
Review of Cecelia Frey’s “Lovers Fall Back to Earth”
by Vivian Hansen Lovers Fall Back to Earth by Cecelia Frey Innana Press (2018) ISBN 978-1-77133-481-5 This book is about unpacking clichés; all that has been hoarded over the years. Frey pries beneath…
Crystal Mackenzie’s Book Review of “On Huron’s Shore” by Marilyn Gear Pilling
Crystal Mackenzie A review of: On Huron’s Shore by Marilyn Gear Pilling Demeter Press (2014) ISBN 978-1-927335-34-5 We all have to grow up, some of us are just better at…
Book Review of “Hastings-Sunrise” by Bren Simmers
Bren Simmers, Hastings-Sunrise Friday night at Hastings Park. Our beer in plastic cups. Pre-race, the announcer tells us to look for a big ass, a line of muscle along the…
Book Review of Rita Wong’s “Undercurrent”
rob mclennan a review of: Undercurrent By Rita Wong Nightwood Editions ISBN 978-0-88971-308-6 both the ferned & the furry, the herbaceous & the human, can call the ocean our ancestor.…
“a trip into the abyss” by Jordan Simpson: a Design Review of “House of Leaves” by Mark Z Danielewski
Jordan Simpson a review of: House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski Pantheon Books ISBN: 0-375-70376-4 Reading Mark Z. Danielewski’s “novel” House of Leaves (Feb 29, 2000) is a lot like…