Issue 176

• Welcome To This Issue Pamela Mulloy

Spirit Ink

• Prayer I Forgot I Knew Kikki Guerard

Falling In Love With Poetry

• Falling in Love with Writing Poetry Richard Brait

Writer-At-Large

• A Japanese Road Trip Aileen Lee
• Anita Lahey on Writing Wildfire Poems as the Country Burns Rob Taylor

Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest

• The Personal Is Never Static Lara El Mekaui
• Perhaps a Wolf & a Lamb Adèle Barclay
• No One Afraid Shane Neilson

Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award

• The Case for Ambition Pamela Mulloy
• Alert Leslie Palleson
• Good Person Pardis Parker

Fiction

• The Dimming Kaitlin Ruether
• Ever Been Roast Shelley Wood
• The Silt between the Reeds Atma Frans
• The Cutpurse of Venice Mark Anthony Jarman
• You and I Colette Maitland
• Snake-Proof Trent Lewin
• Aftermarket Theressa Slind

Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest

• May Day Coronation, 1929 Terence Young
• Holiday in France Callista Markotich
• Granada Nancy Holmes
• Scattering my father’s ashes Susan Haldane
• Did You Know Our Mother Read to Us of You Callista Markotich
• Walking past the local garage Rose Maloukis
• Marking the Occasion in Style John Vardon
• What Kurt Vonnegut wrote to Ms Lockwood’s class at Xavier High School Richard Brait
• Initial Conditions Dagne Forrest
• When an Old Man Dies… Anthony Purdy
• Quadri and Florian Richard Brait
• Love and War at Dieppe Callista Markotich,
• Varkala, Early Morning Sneha Madhavan-Reese

Poetry

• Their Eyes Sandra Davies
• Snow Mobiles Ingrid Dolan
• The Wall Sandra Davies
• Hiking with my Five-year-old Grandson Florence Treadwell
• Museum Girls Jean Eng
• Monsoon Sandra Davies
• Marking the Occasion in Style John Vardon
• On the Waiting List Florence Treadwell
• Burning Bright Chantal Lavoie
• The Frazzle Chantel Lavoie
• Deflection Florence Treadwell
• Blackstone Still Life Gillian McKee
• BOB Chantal Lavoie

• TNQs

• Curtain Call