findings

CHERYL THOMPSON
Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima 2.0

You can change the image, but the imprint remains.

IAN WILLIAMS
Subject Verb Object

“Some phrases / literally could not be said.”

GAIL SCOTT
Lumberjack Politicos

“The trick is to keep looking toward the future, thus cancelling out nostalgia.”

CHRIS BOSE
Community Legacy

On sophisticated begging and the foreign language of grants.

TRYNNE DELANEY
Climate Anxiety

Understocked soy blocks are a sign of hope.

ARLEEN PARÉ
The Block Watch Co-Captain Emails Regarding More B and E's

Lock your doors. Lock your windows. Make many friends.

ANDREA BENNETT
Mom, Dad, Other

“I need the world to make just enough space for me that I can become completely unremarkable.”

JOI ARCAND
Cree Comic Sans

Cree syllabics meet Microsoft diacritics.

Steven Heighton
Light, Camera, Action

Travelling refugees and clashes on cold nights.

LARRY TREMBLAY
Sentimental Decadence

Antoine eats his eggs and bacon with gusto and proudly declares "I am what I am!"

ADAM LEITH GOLLNER
Moments of Doubt

On the ecclesiastic qualities of writers.

Touch of Death

Orgasms, vampire bites, time paradoxes and other causes of death on screen.

Free Parking, Alberta

Selected tripadvisor.com reviews of the UFO Landing Pad attraction in St. Paul, Alberta,rated #1 of 5 “things to do” in St. Paul.

BERTRAND BICKERSTETH
Christopher Columbus On the Prairies

The road to El Dorado is lined with goldenrod, golden wheat and missed opportunities.

GEORGE K. ILSLEY
Perfectly Good Beans

“What else might be sitting in there, rotting?”

KAT CAMERON
VW Ramblings

"I’m diagonally parked in a parallel universe."

HOWARD WHITE
Denouement

“Like the man said it’s a long way down.”

KELSEA O'CONNOR
Programming Language

A selection of BISAC codes added and removed in 2019.

ANDREW WEDDERBURN
All the Funnest Music

A composition of old ski hills, cigarette smoke and plastic pine trees—why change chemistry?

JEFF MUSGRAVE
Instructions For My Father

"Leave the woman taking this picture, Dad..."

DESMOND COLE
Toy Version Racism

Desmond Cole on carding in Toronto.

JEANNE RANDOLPH
Prairie Modernist Noir

On the Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth.

MICHEL TREMBLAY
Elf in the Breadbox

Losing a bit of bread from time to time is a fair price to pay to have spunkies around.

PAUL BAE
For the Ladies

Paul Bae recounts the things high school students say.