Amanda Barker

Diagnosed with three inoperable brain tumours, Stacey Fortune abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother’s scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home she’s known as Crow, and everybody suspects that her family is...

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales...

My father drowned in the Aegean Sea, fifty nautical miles northeast of the port of Piraeus. When it happened, my mother and I were at home in Toronto. It was early evening in Greece, afternoon for us, and I was at school when she found out.Niko...

In her debut collection, Megan K. Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, serves up the Eternal City as you’ve never seen it before, turning an insider’s eye on the love, mystery and unholy chaos of Rome.In nine funny and insightful stories,...

Winner of the 2013 Alberta Readers’ Choice AwardRebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth.The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to...