This year's anthology contains a satisfying mix of old hands like Leon Rooke, Cynthia Flood, Mark Jarman and Rebecca Rosenblum, and newcomers like Kerry-Lee Powell, Megan Findlay, Kevin Hardcastle and Lauren Carter. There are others too, writers like Adrian Michael Kelly, Kathy Page and Alice Petersen. This is the forty-fifth anniversary of Best Canadian Stories, a book that has always championed the very best of Canadian writing, under the watchful eye, in recent years, of John Metcalf, who knows more about the Canadian short story than anyone else in the country.
This year's anthology contains a satisfying mix of old hands like Leon Rooke, Cynthia Flood, Mark Jarman and Rebecca Rosenblum, and newcomers like Kerry-Lee Powell, Megan Findlay, Kevin Hardcastle and Lauren Carter. There are others too, writers like Adrian Michael Kelly, Kathy Page and Alice Petersen. This is the forty-fifth anniversary of Best Canadian Stories, a book that has always championed the very best of Canadian writing, under the watchful eye, in recent years, of John Metcalf, who knows more about the Canadian short story than anyone else in the country.