Spring 2012 No. 178

Publication Date: April 20, 2012

Launch: TBA

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Contents:

Winners:

2012 Open Season Awards
Poetry
  • Tammy Armstrong, “Forked”
  • Kate Edwards, “Mischief in Remarriage,” "Prayer for a Prairie Town," and "Simplicity Ball Gown, 1954"
  • Ted Gilley, “Matinee"
  • Carla Hartsfield, "Afterlight"
  • Daryl Hine, "A Reliquary"
  • Jill McDonough, "Transplant" and "In Which I Start to Get a Migraine and Think of Hildegard Von Bingen"
  • Maurice Mierau, "Her Name" and "The eloquent fans, the painful moon"
  • Jordan Mounteer, "Liminal"
  • Marilyn Gear Pilling, "The Father" and "Discovering the Soul of Walmart in Quintana Roo"
  • Kerry-Lee Powell, "Seals"
  • Medrie Purdham, "Elisabeth Meyer"
  • Peter Richardson, "Of Cordwood and Chrysanthemums Handled to the Strains of Bizet"
  • David Reibetanz, "Haida box filled with sand"
  • Rachel Rose, "Maternal Sapphics I," "Uncut Wood," and "Aubade: Grendel's Mother"
  • Jean-Mark Sens, "Corkscrew"
  • Russell Thornton, "Blade"
  • Matthew Tierney, "Re the Individual Wellbeing"
  • Anne Pierson Wiese, "Goddamn Man"
  • Patricia Young, "Daughter at Thirteen"
Fiction
  • Steven Heighton, “OutTrip”
  • Mark Rogers, “Straw”
Creative Nonfiction
Reviews
  • Poetry
  • Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, Apologetic for Joy (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2011). (Reviewed by Tanya Lester)
  • Calvin Wharton, The Song Collides (Vancouver: Anvil, 2011) and Stephanie Bolster, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (London: Brick, 2011). (Both reviewed by Shane Rhodes)
  • Chris Banks, Winter Cranes (Toronto: ECW, 2011) and Amanda Jernigan, Groundwork (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2011). (Both reviewed by Chris Jennings)
  • Fiction           
    Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Toronto: Thomas Allen & Son, 2011). (Reviewed by Susan Braley)
  • Laura Boudreau, Suitable Precautions (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2011) and Cathy Stonehouse, Something About the Animal (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2011). (Both reviewed by Sandra McIntyre)
  • Nonfiction
  • Shane Neilson, Gunmetal Blue: A Memoir (Kingsville: Palimsest, 2011) and Theresa Kishkan, Mnemonic (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2011) (Both reviewed by Susan Olding)
Cover
  • TBA