“These stories demand a second or even third reading as characters reappear, and some change over time. The gift of a small community is that everyone knows everyone; it’s also a bit of a curse. In Gaston’s hands, it’s mostly a gift as closeness seems to create a sense of balance.” Candace Fertile reviews Bill

Thank you Quill & Quire for the fantastic review of Bill Gaston’s Tunnel Island! “Gaston, one of Canada’s most respected writers, with multiple prize nominations and awards, renders the key dichotomies of human nature, and of life on the island – beauty and violence, trust and betrayal, isolation and community, joy and heartbreak – with

Check out this stellar review of Lloyd Ratzlaff’s Walking Upstream on the SaskBooks Reviews website: https://reviews.skbooks.com/walking-upstream/ “Ratzlaff possesses a gift for evoking emotion in just a few poignant lines—some might consider this poetry’s raison d’être—and his poems reflect that over a lifetime, the former counsellor’s mastered the oft-ignored art of listening.” —Shelley A. Leedahl, SaskBooks

“[Wallace’s] final lecture, if you will, is both a roadmap to and a celebration of a life well lived. It is also a mature and moving meditation on mortality.” —Theresa Shea, Alberta Views Theresa Shea wrote a lovely review of Jo-Ann Wallace’s A Life in Pieces in Alberta Views Magazine! Click here to read the