Fifty Years Of Best Canadian Stories

Author : John Metcalf,Daniel Wells
Publisher : Best Canadian
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771965940

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Fifty Years of Best Canadian Stories by John Metcalf,Daniel Wells Pdf

A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian Stories Now in its fiftieth year, the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what's new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected from the series' wide-ranging list of contributors by editor John Metcalf, Fifty Years of Best Canadian Stories celebrates half a century of the country's best short fiction.

Author : Caroline Adderson
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781771963282

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Best Canadian Stories 2019 by Caroline Adderson Pdf

Now in its 49th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected by guest editor Caroline Adderson, the 2019 edition draws together both newer and established writers to shape an engaging and luminous mosaic of writing in this country today—a continuation of not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters.

Author : Diane Schoemperlen
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781771964364

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Best Canadian Stories 2021 by Diane Schoemperlen Pdf

Selected by guest editor Diane Schoemperlen, the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Stories continues not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. “The best short stories,” writes editor Diane Schoemperlen, “are disruptive in all the best ways, diverse in all senses of the word, always looking back and leading forward at the same time ... they must be written in the world, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of more horrifying news every day.” Submitted and published by Canadian writers in 2020, Schoemperlen’s selections for Best Canadian Stories 2021 feature work by established practitioners of the form alongside exciting newcomers, and stories published by leading magazines and journals as well as those appearing in print for the first time—all of which, as Schoemperlen writes, “bring us news of the world and the shape of things to come.” Featuring work by: Senaa Ahmad Chris Bailey Shashi Bhat Megan Callahan Francine Cunningham Lucia Gagliese Alice Gauntley Don Gillmor Angélique Lalonde Elise Levine Colette Maitland Sara O’Leary Jasmine Sealy Joshua Wales Joy Waller

Author : Steven W Beattie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771966343

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Best Canadian Stories 2025 by Steven W Beattie Pdf

Selected by editor Steven W. Beattie, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2023.

Author : Russell Smith
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771962506

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Best Canadian Stories 2018 by Russell Smith Pdf

Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected by guest editor Russell Smith, the 2018 edition draws together both newer and established writers to shape an engaging and luminous mosaic of writing in this country today—a continuation of not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. Best Canadian Stories 2018 features work by: Shashi Bhat, Tom Thor Buchanan, Lynn Coady, Deirdre Simon Dore, Alicia Elliott, Bill Gaston, Liz Harmer, Brad Hartle, David Huebert, Reg Johanson, Amy Jones, Michael LaPointe, Stephen Marche, Lisa Moore, Kathy Page, and Alex Pugsley.

Author : John Metcalf
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771960854

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The Canadian Short Story by John Metcalf Pdf

No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of the form and what it can do. The long-time editor of the yearly Best Canadian Stories anthology, as well as a fiction editor at some of the pre-eminent literary presses in the country for more than forty years, he has worked to support and champion several generations of our best writers. Literature in Canada would be far less without his efforts. Sifting through a lifetime of reading, writing, and thinking about the short story in this country, and where it fits within the larger currents of world literature, Metcalf’s magisterial The Canadian Short Story offers the most authoritative book on the subject to date. Most importantly, it includes an expanded and reconsidered Century List, Metcalf’s critical guide to the best Canadian short story collections of the last 100 years. But more than a critical book, The Canadian Short Story is a love-letter to the form, a passionate defense of the best of our literature, and a championing of those books and writers most often over-looked. It is a guide not only to what to read, but also one, its author’s most fervent desire, which aims to make better readers of us all.

Author : John Metcalf,Leon Rooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Short stories, Canadian
ISBN : 0887504361

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82 Best Canadian Stories by John Metcalf,Leon Rooke Pdf

Author : John Metcalf
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771962056

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Best Canadian Stories by John Metcalf Pdf

Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Lynn Coady, Mavis Gallant, Zsuzsi Gartner, Douglas Glover, Steven Heighton, Isabel Huggan, Mark Anthony Jarman, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Russell Smith, Linda Svendsen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the years and decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what's new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. The short story is perhaps Canada's greatest contribution to literature, and in this edition established practitioners of the form—including Tamas Dobozy, Cynthia Flood, K.D. Miller, and Lisa Moore—are joined by powerful emerging talents—like Paige Cooper and CBC Short Story Prize winner David Huebert—in a continuation of not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters.

Author : Canniff Haight
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1885-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465531551

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Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago by Canniff Haight Pdf

Author : Paige Cooper
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781771963633

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Best Canadian Stories 2020 by Paige Cooper Pdf

“The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” “Like meeting a stranger, much of the pleasure of a story is its unknown power,” writes Best Canadian Stories 2020 guest editor Paige Cooper. “The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” From Festival du Voyageur to the shores of Lake Erie, Tbilisi to Toronto, the Amisk River to a hotel-turned-hospital in the midst of a mysterious pandemic, this wide-ranging anthology brings together the real and the speculative, small towns and big cities, grief and humour, introducing readers to stories that startle us into new understanding—of ourselves and each other, the worlds we inhabit and the ones they help us to imagine. Featuring work by: Maxime Raymond Bock • Lynn Coady • Kristyn Dunnion • Omar El Akkad • Camilla Grudova • Conor Kerr • Alex Leslie • Thea Lim • Madeleine Maillet • Cassidy McFadzean • Michael Melgaard • Jeff Noh • Casey Plett • Eden Robinson • Naben Ruthnum • Pablo Strauss • Souvankham Thammavongsa

Author : John Metcalf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Short stories, Canadian
ISBN : 0778013529

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Best Canadian Stories by John Metcalf Pdf

"Canadian fiction used to be all about angst on a farm. In recent years a crop of new writers has transformed the genre, which is now concerned with anaesthetized suburbs, seedy apartments and women who dye their hair the colour of toxic waste. Nowadays we're looking for different qualities. In fact, we no longer look for the work of Canadian writers at all. We publish the work of writers, the best writers, writers like Terence Young with his sweet lyricism, Zsuzsi Gartner with her sparkling wit, Claire Tacon with her special darkness and the new work of Laura Boudreau and many others. Best Canadian Stories is now 41 years old. Buy a copy and read it."--Publisher's description.

Author : Muriel Whitaker
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551995250

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The Best Canadian Animal Stories by Muriel Whitaker Pdf

Farley Mowat, Gabrielle Roy, Grey Owl, Emily Carr and Robertson Davies are among the authors whose stories grace The Best Canadian Animal Stories. From a white-tailed deer that survives despite its blindness, a whale harassed by youths in a powerboat and a boy who is saved by his dog in a Cape Breton snowstorm, these are classic animal stories by some of Canada's best writers.

Author : George Iles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0428728685

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Canadian Stories (Classic Reprint) by George Iles Pdf

Excerpt from Canadian Stories I see no shadows, saith the sun Yet he casts them every one. All the years that our family lived in Montreal, more than half my lifetime, the great church of Notre Dame seemed an irresistible magnet when ever we Chose a home. When one exigency or another, the need of more room, or escape from an intrusive factory, obliged us to find new quarters, we never went far; the new home, like the old, was sure to stand almost beneath the twin stark towers of Notre Dame, within sound of its oft-recur ring chimes. To-day, as the traveler approaches Montreal from the river, the old Norman church still looms high in the landscape. Fifty years ago, before any lofty structure stood its neighbor, N otre Dame dominated the city as St. Peter's, at this hour, as with a scepter, lifts itself above Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : McClelland and Stewart-Bantam
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0770417027

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Best Canadian Short Stories by John Stevens Pdf

Author : Peter Mansbridge
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982134525

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Extraordinary Canadians by Peter Mansbridge Pdf

From Peter Mansbridge, the beloved former anchor of CBC’s The National, and Mark Bulgutch, former CBC producer, comes a collection of first-person stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation—kindness, compassion, courage, and freedom—and inspire us to do the same. In this timely and heartwarming volume of personal stories, Peter Mansbridge and former CBC producer Mark Bulgutch bring together inspiring Canadians from across the country, who in their own way, are making Canada a better place for all. Hear Gitxsan activist Cindy Blackstock describe her childhood in northern British Columbia where she straddled two communities—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—and her subsequent fight for equitable health care for all children as the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. Meet Matt Devlin, the US broadcaster who found a new home in Canada when he got a job with the Toronto Raptors, and read how he helped calm the crowd when a gunman began shooting in Nathan Phillips Square after the team’s NBA championship win. From the young woman living with Crohn’s disease—and proudly modeling her ostomy bag—to the rabbi whose family fled Nazi Germany—and who now gives the benediction on Parliament Hill each Remembrance Day—Extraordinary Canadians celebrates the people who have overcome adversity and broken down barriers to champion the rights and freedoms of everyone who calls Canada home. Featuring voices from all walks of life—advocates, politicians, doctors, veterans, immigrants, business leaders, and more—this collection gets to the heart of what it means to be Canadian. These stories will change the way you see your country and make you fall in love with Canada all over again.