Issue 121: Knock, Knock

Who's there? An estranged father, a former student, the man you aren't marrying, the sound effects man, a stranger rising as if out of the sea...

+ Susan Olding on Household Pets of the Great and Lesser Poets

An oft-repeated commonplace is that literature has only two plots: someone embarks on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Issue 121 is full of stories of arrival, of stories in which someone unexpected—an estranged father, a distraught neighbour, a sound effects man—arrives at the door (whether literally or figuratively) and the protagonist’s life takes a turn. Hence our decision to borrow the title “Knock, Knock” from Michelle Berry’s story therein. Discover, as the joke goes, who’s there.

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In conversation with:
*Susan Olding and Pam Bustin - Coming Soon!

Inside the Issue:
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Welcome to this issue

Madeline Bassnett Medicino Cottage Country

THE WRITER-AT-LARGE

Brian Bartlett from Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar
Susan Olding A Pilgrimage to Hampstead, or Household Pets of the Great and Lesser Poets
Pam Bustin Ground: From Hanoi to Hiroshima in the Wake of 9/11

FICTION

Michelle Berry Knock Knock
Michelle Berry Who's There? A Novel in Stories
Caroline Adderson Poppycock
Caroline Adderson Poppycock! An Afterword
Elisabeth Harvor Women Are His Religion
Michael Bryson Twenty-Seven Days
Michael Bryson "27 Days," The Story Behind The Story
Carrie Snyder Disruption
Bev Craddock You Are Yourself
Barb Howard Basic Obedience
Holley Rubinsky Offset Type

POETRY

Marilyn Bowering Five Poems
Elisabeth Harvor On Their Lost Detour to the Republics of Nowhere
Isabel Huggan October Night
Joanna Lilley Three Poems
Branka Petrovic Dream: Two Scenarios
Laurie Lynn Muirhead Two Poems