Canadian Fiction Magazine articles from January 1 1997

Canadian Fiction Magazine archives from January 1 1997

Achievement of Canadian fiction.
January 1, 1997... GEOFF HANCOCK has been the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Fiction Magazine since 1976. GEOFF HANCOCK THE TRAJECTORY Canadian Fiction Magazine is the oldest and finest literary quarterly in the nation devoted to creative prose...

Moving off the map: from "story" to "fiction".
January 1, 1997... GEOFF HANCOCK has edited several collections of innovative fiction, including Magic Realism, Illusion: Fables, Fantasies, and Metafictions; Metavisions; Shoes and Shit; and Visible Stories and Invisible Fictions from Quebec. He was the first...

Wintering in Victoria.
January 1, 1997... LEON ROOKE was born in rural North Carolina in 1934 and lived in Victoria, British Columbia for many years before moving to Eden Mills, Ontario, site of the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. His publications include Who Do You Love?, A Good Baby, A...

Siblings.
January 1, 1997... ANNE BERNARD (a.k.a. Ann Copeland) was born in Hartford, Connecticut and was an Ursuline nun for 13 years before moving with her family to New Brunswick in 1971. Her publications include Season of Apples, The Back Room, Earthen Vessels, and The...

Illianna comes home.
January 1, 1997... W. P. KINSELLA was born in Alberta and now lives in White Rock, British Columbia. His publications include If Wishes Were Horses, Dance Me Outside, Born Indian, and Shoeless Joe, upon which the movie Field of Dreams was based. This story first...

With a capital T.
January 1, 1997... MAVIS GALLANT was born in Montreal, Quebec and now lives in Paris, France. Her publications include The Other Paris, Green Water, Green Sky, The Pegnitz Junction, and From the Fifteenth District. This story first appeared in a special volume of...

Watcher.
January 1, 1997... GUY VANDERHAEGHE was born in Saskatchewan, where he still lives. His publications include Man Descending, for which he received the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1982, and The Englishman's Boy, for which he received the same award in...

Five wheelchairs.
January 1, 1997... JANE URQUHART was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario and now lives in Wellesley, Ontario. Her publications include Changing Heaven, Storm Glass, Whirlpool, and Away. This story first appeared in CFM No. 39 in 1981. 1 Shoes LATER...

This is what you were born for.
January 1, 1997... KEATH FRASER was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he still lives. His publications include Taking Cover, Foreign Affairs, and Bad Trips. This story first appeared in CFM No. 40/41 in 1981. TANNED AND LOOKING FIT, full of plans for...

Sins of Tomas Benares.
January 1, 1997... MATT COHEN was born in Kingston, Ontario and now divides his time among Verona, Ontario, Toronto, and the south of France. His publications include Last Seen, Emotional Arithmetic, Freud: The Paris Notebooks, and The Sweet Second Summer of...

Dog attempts to drown man in Saskatoon.
January 1, 1997... DOUGLAS GLOVER was born in Southwestern Ontario and now lives in Up-State New York. His publications include Precious, Dog Attempts To Drown Man in Saskatoon, and A Guide To Animal Behavior, which was nominated for the Governor General's Award...

Scent of young girls dying.
January 1, 1997... PATRICK ROSCOE was born on the Spanish Island of Formentera in 1962 and has lived in Tanzania, England, Mexico, Paris, Madrid, and Canada. His publications include The Lost Oasis, Love Is Starving for Itself, God's Peculiar Care, and Beneath...

Condolence visit.
January 1, 1997... ROHINTON MISTRY was born in Bombay, India and now lives in Brampton, Ontario. His publications include Tales from Firozsha Baag, Such a Long Journey, for which he received the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1991, and A Fine Balance,...

Prize.
January 1, 1997... SHARON BUTALA was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan in 1940 and now lives near Eastend, Saskatchewan. Her publications include The Fourth Archangel, Fever, Luna, and Queen of the Headaches, for which she was nominated for the Governor General's...

Letter writer.
January 1, 1997... CHETAN RAJANI was born in Uganda and now lives in Ottawa. His stories have been featured in Best Canadian Stories and The Literary Half-Yearly. This story first appeared in CFM No. 66-67 in 1989, a special issue on Ontario writers. IT WAS...

Hole with a head in it.
January 1, 1997... T.J. RIGELHOF was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and now lives in Westmount, Quebec. His publications include The Education of J.J. Pass, Je T'Aime Cowboy and Other Stories, and Boy in the Blue Dress, which was nominated for the Governor...

Ninety-three-million miles away.
January 1, 1997... BARBARA GOWDY was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1950 and now lives in Toronto. Her publications include Falling Angels, and We So Seldom Look on Love. This story first appeared in CFM No. 74/75 in 1991, the 20th anniversary issue. AT LEAST...

Periodic table of escape velocities.
January 1, 1997... Greg Stephenson lives in Toronto. This story first appeared in CFM No. 81 in 1993. AT FIRST THE NURSE couldn't find any record of my sister. Finally she confirmed that a Sampson had been admitted, but couldn't find the doctor. I sat in the...

Dream novels.
January 1, 1997... THOMAS WHARTON lives in Peace River, Alberta, and has published the novel Icefields. This story first appeared in CFM No. 87 in 1994. Dream Novel WHEN THE LIBRARY of Alexandria was burned, this book alone survived the flames: a novel...

Tribute to Geoff Hancock.
January 1, 1997... ANN COPELAND (aka Anne Bernard) Geoff Hancock has devoted his life to fostering and promoting the art of short fiction. This tribute was compiled without his knowledge in recognition of his remarkable achievement as an editor and...