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Fiction – Short StoriesLingering Tide and Other StoriesLatha Viswanathan • TSAR PublicationsThese poignant stories finely depict the lives of immigrants, through the themes of family adjustment, loss,and starting afresh in a new place. Set in suburban Toronto, New Jersey, Texas, and India, they draw outthe conflicts in three generations of Indians whose lives interconnect even as they straddle the old and thenew. What we sense is both the anguish of loss and the thrill of discovery.Viswanathan’s quiet prose imparts powerful emotions that ring true, and her rendering of cultural clash istruly skillful and nuanced. The depiction of her characters’ interior lives is so full and vital that they breatheand walk off the page. The reader is drawn in and completely absorbed into her world of transitions.ISBN-13: 9781894770750paperback / 168 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $20.95October 2011Latha Viswanathan has worked as a journalist, copywriter, editor, and teacher in India, London, Manila,Montreal, Toronto, and the United States. These stories have appeared in major American literarymagazines and won awards. Her work received a grant from the Texas Commission of the Arts inFiction, was published in Best New Stories from the South and broadcast on National Public Radio.She currently lives and writes in Houston.Key words: Short stories, Immigrant experiences, South Asian identities, DiasporicMoonlight SketchesGerard Collins • Creative Book PublishingIn Moonlight Sketches, Gerard Collins portrays a land of shadows, beyond the overpass, where cruelty andhope gnaw at your peace of mind as the brine patiently devours a wharf. With his trademark dark humourand a nod to the unknown, the author shines a light on the difficulty of being human and yet somehowsurviving with grace, dignity, and a modicum of happiness.Winner of the Ches Crosbie Barrister Newfoundland Book Award.ISBN-13: 9781897174708paperback / 200 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $19.95June 2011Gerard Collins is the author of the award-winning collection of short stories Moonlight Sketches andFinton Moon. He has won the Percy Janes First Novel Award for Finton Moon, been shortlisted for theCuffer Prize, won several Arts and Letters awards, and published in journals and anthologies, such asZeugma, Storyteller, and Hard Ol’ Spot. He lives in St. John’s where he writes and teaches English atMemorial University of Newfoundland.Key words: Canadian short stories, Regional identity – Newfoundland, Literary studiesNot Anyone’s AnythingIan Williams • Freehand Books“The writing in Not Anyone’s Anything is fresh, funny, and intelligent. This is a solid first book withgripping, convincing dialogue, a fluid sense of urbanity, and structural innovation that doesn’t come offas trickery. You see the poet here, in the crisp choice of language and even in the line breaks, as Williamsuses typography and unusual layout to suggest a split-screen view of life. This is a brilliant collection.”—Danuta Gleed Literary Award jury (Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Robin McGrath, and Hal Niedzviecki)ISBN-13: 9781551119953paperback / 224 pp6 x 9 / $21.95April 2011Ian Williams is the author of Personals, shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize; Not Anyone’s Anything,winner of the 2011 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction inCanada; and You Know Who You Are, a finalist for the ReLit Prize for Poetry. He was named as one of tenCanadian writers to watch by CBC. Williams completed his PhD in English at the University of Torontoand works as an English professor.Key words: Canadian short stories, Urbanization, African-Canadian identities, Literary studies22 Literary Press Group / Congress 2013