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Fiction – Short StoriesLight LiftingAlexander MacLeod • Biblioasis“Engrossing, thrilling and ultimately satisfying: each story has the weight of a novel. The choice of words isspare, simple and unaffected, and the rhythm is perfect ... stunning work.” —The Economist“Alexander MacLeod’s control of cadence and rhythm is so complete that it seems effortless....[These stories] contain a rare kind of truthfulness.” —Colm ToibinShortlisted for the 2012 Giller Prize.Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton and raised in Windsor, Ontario. Hisbestselling fiction debut, Light Lifting, was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International ShortStory Award, the Giller Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize. Alexander currently teaches at Saint Mary’sUniversity in Halifax.Key words: Canadian short stories, urbanization, Regional identity – Windsor-Detroit,Urban and Inner-city studiesISBN-13: 9781897231944paperback / 224 pp5.25 x 8.25 / $19.95September 2010Fiction – AnthologiesEverything Is So Political: A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian WritersEdited by Sandra McIntyre • Roseway PublishingNEWConsisting of twenty short stories, this collection is proof that it is increasingly difficult, even impossible,for fiction not to be political. But make no mistake, the stories in this anthology are stories first: stories thatare meant to be read, shared and enjoyed, but stories that will make you see things differently and questionthe world around you. Contributors include Fred Stenson, Fran Kimmel, Jim Conklin, Sandra McIntyre,and many more.“Brimming with wild imagination and stunning variety, this is one of those beautiful literary anthologiesthat comes along once a generation, that we’ll look back upon as the beginning of a whole new vision ofCanadian fiction.” —Lee HendersonSandra McIntyre is a freelance book editor and writer living in Calgary, Alberta. Previously, she wasthe managing editor of Nimbus Publishing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sandra primarily edits fiction and iscurrently at work on a historical novel.Key words: Political studies, Short stories, Literary studies, Women’s rights, Environmentalism,Indigenious rights, Terrorism, AnthologyISBN-13: 9781552665497paperback / 200 pp6 x 9 / $19.95July 2013In the Black: New African Canadian LiteratureEdited by Althea Prince • Insomniac PressIn a mix of short fiction, poetry, dub poetry, and hip hop, some of Black Canada’s foremost writers fromacross generations explore history, community, love, and healing. The collection consists of writing fromCatherine Bain, George Elliott Clarke, Gayle Gonsalves, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Clifton Joseph, DwayneMorgan, Motion, Jelani Nias (J-Wyze), Djanet Sears, Mansa Trotman, and the editor, Althea Prince.Althea Prince was born in Antigua, the Caribbean, and has lived in Canada, the US, and England. Shehas taught sociology, first at York University and the University of Toronto, and now teaches at RyersonUniversity–The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, where she won the Kay LivingstoneAward in 2011. Dr. Prince is known for her work as an essayist and fiction writer. Her published worksinclude The Politics of Black Women’s Hair (cultural studies), Being Black (cultural studies), Loving This Man(novel), Ladies of the Night (stories), Feminisms and Womanisms: A Women’s Studies Reader (co-editor), andHow the Starfish Got to the Sea (children).Key words: Canadian short stories, African-Canadian identities, Diasporic, AnthologyISBN-13: 9781554830855paperback / 224 pp6 x 9 / $19.95November 2012Literary Press Group / Congress 2013 23