Articles
Poetry Was My Back-Up Plan, After Music
By Patrick Friesen
My first choice would have been to be a musician, or a singer. But I found out early that I wasn’t a natural at the piano, and lessons didn’t take me very far, though I enjoyed sitting on the bench watching my teacher play. MORE >
Short Fiction Contest Deadline Extended
The Winnipeg Review wants to read your new, exciting short fiction, hand out prizes, and make the world a better place. Now you have until June 1, 2013… MORE >
Interviews
New Work
notpronounced toes #5
by Nathan Dueck
Parliamentary Activity of the Honourable @WoveTics: MORE >
A Poem by Anne Marie Todkill
Excerpts
Book Reviews
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‘Mad Hope’ by Heather Birrell
Reviewed by J.E. StintziMad Hope is Toronto author Heather Birrell’s second collection after I Know You Are But What Am I? (2004). Stylistically Birrell’s prose is well crafted, tight and lacking superfluity, as well as injected with just the right amount of humour. MORE >
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‘Belinda’s Rings’ by Corrina Chong
Reviewed by Joanne DeCosseCrop circles and giant squids are one way to catch the eyes of bookstore browsers. These two bizarre elements, drawn onto crumpled lined paper and superimposed onto Belinda’s Rings cover, play an important role in Corrina Chong’s charming debut novel. MORE >
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‘Every Happy Family’ by Dede Crane
Reviewed by Brett Josef GrubisicWhatever the truth of “the family” might be, writers—of novels and short stories, stage plays and single-camera setup TV scripts, big screen dramas and holiday/wedding reunion comedies—see in its infinite possibility a subject with universal appeal and an eternal, heart-stimulating bounty that, ever-polymorphous, readjusts with each successive generation. MORE >
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‘People Park’ by Pasha Malla
Reviewed by Amy AttasIn People Park, Pasha Malla takes us to an island city celebrating its Silver Jubilee. This city is familiar, but it is not ordinary. It’s an experiment. MORE >
#notpronounced toes #4
by Nathan Dueck
Parliamentary Activity of the Honourable @viewcost:
Glad to speak about #Bill18 with Mb teens of queer persuasion. Turns out they aren’t into Sharia law! #AprilFools #CouldaFooledMe
10:00:10 AM April 1, 2013
Proud to support #BathroomBill in Cdn Parliament. Turns out our Lord & Saviour’s cool with transgendered folk! #FoolMeOnce #PityTheFool
00:10:00 AM April 1, 2013
‘April is the cruelest month.’ T.S. Eliot / ‘@toewsvic is one cruel motha!’ @MrT
11:10:00 AM April 1, 2013
I am a forgive & forget Christian, but a persecute & prosecute politician. #AsGodMadeMe #PurposeDrivenLife #YOLO
11:10:00 AM April 3, 2013
#BullyPulpit (Bull.he.pull.pit), n. Religious rhetoric used by oppressors to #pound political opposition into submission. #Bill18
11:10:00 AM April 9, 2013
‘He that is without sin among you, let that guy bully members of high school “Gay-Straight Alliance” clubs.’ #NewToewsTranslation #BullyPulpit #Bill18
10:00:10 AM April 9, 2013
#NotFitToGovern RT @JustinTrudeau: Translation tip for #anglophones: ‘fatiguée’ means ‘tired,’ but not — as @ToewsVic believes — ‘fatty gay.’
00:10:00 AM April 9, 2013
#OppressiveConservative #UninformedFormerReformer #ToryToryHallelujah — Rejected hashtags for our Federal Budget 2013.
11:10:00 PM April 10, 2013
As a White Male Conservative, I only want to cut three things: #CorporateTaxes #SupportForTheArts #ARug
11:10:00 PM April 10, 2013
Hey, have ya heard o’ the step that’s sweeping the #CPC? It’s called the ‘Toeing the Party Line’ dance! #StompinTom #RIP
11:10:00 PM April 18, 2013
♪♫ The good ol’ Game of Thrones / Is the best game you can name / & the best game you can name / Is the good ol’ Game of Thrones ♫♪ #HouseHarper
10:00:10 PM April 18, 2013
Y’know how I know #Curling is a fictional sport, kinda like #Quiddich? No way a man sweeps around my house! #Crucio #Imperio #Silencio
00:10:00 PM April 25, 2013
Overheard an #LGBT exercising right to free speech about my ‘catching’ moustache. I said, ‘Come again?’ Clearly, he meant ‘fetching.’
11:10:00 PM April 30, 2013
Each time I see lady dainties in the SEARS catalogue, I must masturbate furiously. That’s how straight I am #AsGodMadeMe #5LoveLanguages #LOL
11:10:00 PM April 30, 2013