Issue 169
Winter 2024

CHANCE REUNIONS: in which we try to subvert a grocery store chain, fail to fully grasp Cantonese, escape our newborn child, and come to terms with addiction, again.

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Issue 168
Fall 2023

WHEN INTELLIGENCE IS NOT ARTIFICIAL: in which we see signs of hope in a cantankerous mother, discover the economic precarities of the writing life, witness the complicated wonder of the Antarctic, and prepare for end times.

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Issue 167
Summer 2023

CREATING TENSION: in which we cross the border at Checkpoint Charlie, impulse buy an old hotel on the Portuguese coast, give online dating a whirl, and learn about the precarities of sex and friendship in a fort in the woods.

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Issue 166
Spring 2023

WHAT IS UNSAID: in which we search for the good in bad parenting, find connection at the expense of a barn owl, take a bus trip to learn the truth, and watch the apocalypse from a condo.

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Issue 165
Winter 2023

IN SEARCH OF OUR ALTER EGO: in which we find our true self when selling an elliptical, learn life lessons while cleaning a hotel room, and see more clearly despite our myopia.

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Issue 164
Fall 2022

OUR FRACTURED SELVES: in which we escape Russian security, fail to find all the answers in a children’s encyclopedia, have our future told by a fake psychic, and have our house exorcised.

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Issue 163
Summer 2022

TO CONNECT, AGAIN: in which we go on a pandemic date, dance on our coffin, revisit the relics of our marriage, and discover our mother’s secret as we escape from war.

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Issue 162
Spring 2022

IT WOULD BE GORGEOUS, NONETHELESS: in which we test the water in Cuba, escape the flood in high ground, catalogue the abuses of our partner, and honour the artistic temperament of our sister.

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Issue 161
Winter 2022

CONSTANT DISRUPTION OF PATTERNS: in which we still make sourdough bread, seek meaning in that strange beam of light, walk miles in our own home, and take up indoor farming.

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Issue 160
Fall 2021

THE IN-BETWEEN TIME:
in which we ride the Scrambler at the fair, go to Venice before the flood, buy a farm in a pandemic, and have tea with Alice Neal.

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Issue 159
Summer 2021

THE CASE FOR MIND WANDERING:
in which we: discover our father by working for him, get up at dawn to watch the birds, learn hard lessons from a snow storm, and see wolverines in the park.

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Issue 158
Spring 2021

WHAT LIES AHEAD:
in which we search for a missing pinball machine, reconcile with an errant son, rescue a shark in Florida, and escape (another) pandemic.

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Issue 157
Winter 2021

THE LURE OF POSSIBILITIES:
in which we retreat to a hermitage in Scotland, escape to Florida one last time, see miracles in our own home, and date the man of our (bad) dreams.

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Issue 156
Fall 2020

WHEN THE STARS ALIGN:
in which we attend a party that isn’t happening, find ourselves in the archives, take a taxi to nowhere, and escape the clutches of our family.

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Issue 155
Summer 2020

LEAVING HOME:
in which we try our hand at bending spoons, re-imagine our family summers in a Spanish finca, discover that life on the farm is not what we'd expected, and return to the homeland to have an affair.

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Issue 154
Spring 2020

IN NEED OF RESCUE:
in which we search for lost cats, find relief among ghosts, learn lessons of history from a barista, and discover strength in an emergency.

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Issue 153
Winter 2020

TO SWAY RATHER THAN RESIST:
in which we run a marathon, get a rescue dog, retreat to Berlin, face our past at a reunion, and stage a lie-in to protest climate change.

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Issue 152
Fall 2019

TAKING YOUR CHANCES:
in which we retreat to the wilderness, become blind with jealousy, mourn losses by reminiscing about blackberries, and consult astrologers for our anxiety.

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Issue 151
Summer 2019

FOUND IN TRANSLATION:
in which we write poetry in a South African hideaway, find untold clarity in sobriety, chase trees down our street, and trace our history in tattoos.

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Issue 150
Spring 2019

ADJUSTMENTS NEED TO BE MADE:
in which we discover the art of grief on a train to Paris, fall in love with a manatee, learn to find solace in a retreat, and canoe the Allagash River in search of Thoreau.

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Issue 149
Winter 2019

POINTS OF DEPARTURE:
in which we study Kabbalah with our father, search for the trickery in magic, visit Niagara Falls to save our marriage, and flee Aleppo with our family.

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Issue 148
Fall 2018

THE WEIGHT OF STORY:
in which we find a tempest in a real estate deal, discover the devastation a razor blade can wield, find new ways to revive a marriage, and explore atheism in a synagogue.

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Issue 147
Summer 2018

WHEN THE PAST IS PRESENT:
in which we maneuver antlers on the bus, suffer grief through cooking, learn to write by washing dishes, and discover life by climbing mountains.

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Issue 146
Spring 2018

IF ON THE WAY YOU WANDER:
in which we come to terms with our daughter's sexuality, suffer a visit from our mother, wreak havoc on our child's toy, and get naked to spy on our neighbours.

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Issue 145
Winter 2018

WHAT LIES AHEAD:
in which we eradicate fear through curiosity, ride an articulated bus, take stock on a fish farm, and tell our own kind of fairy tale.

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Issue 144
Fall 2017

MEET ME AT THE EDGE:
where we build cities with tin cans, become adept at using chopsticks, fall in love despite different gods, and give chase to figures in unitards.

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Issue 143
Summer 2017

THE VIEW FROM HERE:
in which we stick with our stories, count from moja to nane, befriend lakes and the Klee Wyck woman, and sing ghazals in bathhouses.

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Issue 142
Spring 2017

WAITING FOR THE RETURN:
in which we sort out our collection of spoons and neckties, chase the bears that haunt us, find our long-lost writing voice, and learn to play guitar all over again.

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Issue 141
Winter 2017

TIME TO TALK OF MORE CHEERFUL THINGS:
in which we find love at a Purim party, meet an Ethiopian filmmaker on the train, challenge an upstart student, and stand naked in front of the refrigerator.

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Issue 140
Fall 2016

IN APPRECIATION OF OUR SPOTS:
in which we get tangled up in our hair, wear far too much make-up, nurse a sick cat, and learn how to love our family.

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Issue 139
Summer 2016

I'LL KNOW WHEN I GET THERE:
in which we create a mask to begin a journey, find the soft spot in rejection, learn the hard truths at summer camp, and send a naked intruder packing.

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Issue 138
Spring 2016

THE TRICKERY OF SPRING:
in which we eat French fries in Paris, translate the dead, run away with a movie star, and try not to go to the dogs.

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Issue 137
Winter 2016

A GOOD POLEMIC IS HARD TO FIND:
in which we doubt faith healers, reckon with the vision of Flannery O'Connor, Wrestle with religious lingo, and be thankful just to survive.

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Issue 136
Fall 2015

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?:
in which we connect with Kafka, cross thorny borders, learn to dive, skirt catastrophes, and lose at badminton.

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Issue 135
Summer 2015

FALL INTO A NEW WORLD:
In which you can shout profanities at drivers, take pictures in a photobooth, explore the myth of Persephone, and the ruins in France.

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Issue 134
Spring 2015

THE CAGED AND THOSE WHO RUN AWAY:
in which we search for Sasquatch, escape the Nazis, honour the dead, and celebrate second chances.

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Issue 133
Winter 2015

THE TENDENCY TO PATTERN:
in which we buy a planet, seduce a washing machine, reconstruct a fire, and peek at a naked lady.

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Issue 132
Fall 2014

WHAT COMES TO THE SURFACE:
in which we flirt with a deserter, become seduced by a bunny suit, and reflect on how poetry teaches us to be human.

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Issue 131
Summer 2014

WAR: AN UPHILL BATTLE:
in which we return to the front, abandon the revolution, find new ways of remembering and more ways of forgetting.

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Issue 130
Spring 2014

THE SUM AND THE PARTS:
in which we avoid a rabid raccoon, take advice from Jonathan Swift, meet our clone and find a date for your husband.

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Issue 129
Winter 2014

THE WILD AND UNWONTED:
in which we sacrifice sock monkeys, escape roaming coyotes, find our tribe through tennis, and embrace bad poetry.

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Issue 128
Fall 2013

LIES AND APPROPRIATE TRUTHS:
in which we stuff a hawk, embrace pain, get crushed by the violin, and take arms with a coke bottle.

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Issue 127
Summer 2013

WRESTLING WITH THE HUMOURS:
in which Mike Barnes considers the state of wellness, Isabel Huggan stirs us with poetry, John Metcalf delivers a jeremiad and Vincent Lam gambles on a winner.

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Issue 126
Spring 2013

ALL AT SEA:
in which we learn the care and keeping of frogs, swim waterways by proxy, cross oceans in cargo ships, run up gangways and sink under the weight of relationships.

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Issue 125
Winter 2013

THE DISQUIET OF MEN: in which we skirt tragedy, watch marriages wither, and seek direction while riding the rails.

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Issue 124
Fall 2012

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A COMPLICATED KIND:
in which we feel the earth move beneath our feet, learn to say good-bye in so many ways, & collect the queen of all chess pieces.

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Issue 123
Summer 2012

THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE:
in which you can quit your day job, read trashy teen mags, dance with dogs, and hurl pumpkins at the moon.

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Issue 122
Spring 2012

PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY:
in which we lie, cheat, drink too much brandy, consort with bears, disregard the pigs, and make much ado about muffins.

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Issue 121
Winter 2012

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..

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Issue 120
Fall 2011

LOVE IS ABROAD:
in which our writers map love & loss in Arusha, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Rome, New York, Tokyo, Soweto, & St. Petersburg.

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Issue 119
Summer 2011

THE QuArc ISSUE:
in which science becomes metaphor, poets don lab coats, Alice Munro takes the measure of happiness, the catastrophes are ultra-violet, & quarks shoot off in all directions.

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Issue 118
Spring 2011

SOMETHING ABOUT THE ANIMAL:
in which we are gentled by horses, hogwashed by Joy, kissed like a comet–and rise from the dead.

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Issue 117
Winter 2011

FATHERS, MOTHERS, LOVERS & OTHERS:
in which we spend seven minutes in heaven, get ready for The Big One, and eat french fries in a light-hearted way.

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Issue 116
Fall 2010

TO SEE AND BE SEEN:
in which we stare at writers until they're uncomfortable, ponder soft-core pornography, commit petty crime, and witness a little cremation.

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Issue 115
Summer 2010

ON THE ROAD:
in which we witness a hit-and-run in Cambodia, cry on the Metro, talk slugs and Smurfs on the six-oh-four to Vancouver, and mourn the path untaken.

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Issue 114
Spring 2010

TO LIST IS HUMAN:
in which writer, collage artist and confirmed 'list addict' Diane Schoemperlen shows us the literary side of her obsession - fiction, poetry, art; versions, invocations, inventories and stuff to do.

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Issue 113
Winter 2010

MATTERS OF THE HEART:
of mourning and mothering, fetish poems and foreign territory, romantic invitations and plastic explosives.

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Issue 112
Fall 2009

TRAVELLERS IN A STRANGE LAND:
in which John Metcalf visits the museum at the end of the world, Carrie Snyder dives in the dark, and Shoshanna Wingate walks on the other side of the tracks.

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Issue 111
Summer 2009

I THINK I SHOULD GO HOME:
in which we play 'what if' with Amy Jones, deliver the news with Trevor Cole, and miss Paris with Lyse Champagne.

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Issue 110
Spring 2009

LAST POEMS:
in which Elizabeth Hay evokes love and loss in the stifling heat of a Brooklyn summer and we bear witness to the death of a child at the hands of children.

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Issue 109
Winter 2009

FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON AND ANYHOW:
Anne Fleming, Robyn Sarah, and Dave Margoshes catch the imagination hard at work, generating new stories & poems.

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Issue 108
Fall 2008

ASSORTED PEDESTRIANS:
in which Andreae Prozesky makes good with poetry, Diane Schoemperlen takes a night flight, Heather Cadsby delivers a manifesto, and Terry Griggs decants some Joie de Viv.

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Issue 107
Summer 2008

THE SALON DES REFUSÉS:
in which we crash the party of a famous flightless bird (can you spot him on the cover?), take over the drawing room and break out our favourite break-through stories.

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Issue 106
Spring 2008

THE MONTREAL ISSUE: in which we turn twenty again, wax epicurian, ogle boys and bagels, visit a night zoo, reinvent the chair and shoot a noncoercive Communist. Welcome to the neighbourhood.

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Issue 105
Winter 2008

ADVENTURES IN VERSE:
in which Souvankham Thammavongsa is found, Jeffery Donaldson enters with puck, Madhur Anand writes a prize-worthy poem on a napkin, and we meet a passel of poets, a snicker of critics

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Issue 104
Fall 2007

THE REAL ESTATE ISSUE:
in which we gather poems, stories, and essays on how place defines us and our experience of what's real.

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Issue 103
Summer 2007

INTRODUCING KATHLEEN WINTER: her take on rejection letters, aging, the inner lives of women, and "all the small moving things of the world."

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Issue 102
Spring 2007

The LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT: Oh, Canada! Drawings by Charles Checketts, and Crossing the Straits with Steve McOrmand.

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Issue 99
Summer 2006

To Laugh or To Cry: The Comedy Issue

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Issue 98
Spring 2006

Fiery short fiction from the East Coast—introducing Nicole Dixon
It’s out there—great Canadian science fiction, mystery, fantasy, & erotica.

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Issue 97
Winter 2006

WRITING LIVES: The Inner Landscapes of Artist Jeffrey Burns and Finding Those Fabulous First Lines

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Issue 96
Fall 2005

BORDER CROSSINGS & NEW ARRIVALS...

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Issue 95
Summer 2005

PAINTING, PLAYS AND POETRY: A MEETING OF THE ARTS

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Issue 94
Spring 2005

Hockey Write in Canada
Are fiction lovers snobs when it comes to the Hockey novel?

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Issue 93
Winter 2005

The Writer Abroad: in which Edna Staebler goes to Paris, Nino Ricci goes to Italy, and Diana Fitzgerald Bryden goes to Greece

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Issue 92
Fall 2004

Weddings & Other Disasters: Electrocution, On-line Dating, Delinquency, Phobias & Failed Seductions

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Summer 2004

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Spring 2004

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Winter 2004

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Fall 2003

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Summer 2003

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Spring 2003

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Winter 2003

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Fall 2002

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Summer 2002

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Spring 2002

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Winter 2002

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Summer/Fall 2001

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Winter/Spring 2001

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Summer/Fall 2000

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Spring 2000

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Winter 2000

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Fall 1999

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Summer 1999

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Spring 1999

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Winter 1999

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Fall 1998

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Summer 1998

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Spring 1998

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Winter 1998

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Fall 1997

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Summer 1997

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Spring 1997

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Winter 1997

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Fall 1996

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Summer 1996

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Spring 1996

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Winter 1996

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Fall 1995

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Summer 1995

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Spring 1995

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Winter 1995

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Fall 1994

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Summer 1994

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Spring 1994

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Winter 1994

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Fall 1993

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Summer 1993

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Spring 1993

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Issue 47
Winter 1993

An interview with and new fiction by Dean Bonney and Oakland Ross on writing

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Issue 45
Summer 1992

New directions in Canadian writing

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Issue 44
Spring 1992

Fathers, mothers, and others

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