Spring 2011 No. 174

Publication Date: April 20, 2011

Launch: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 7:00 - 10:00p.m. at UVic's Fine Arts building, in the lobby and room 103. FREE admission.

The winners of our 2011 Open Season Awards in poetry (Cynthia Woodman Kerkham) and fiction (Philip Huynh) will read from their winning pieces. Patrick Friesen will read his poems from the issue, and Assistant Editor Rhonda Batchelor will read from Michael Larson's "The Woods," the lead short story from our Spring issue. We'll also hear from a few of our editorial board members: Barbara Stewart will read from her creative non-fiction book, "Campie," which will be released by Heritage House in Fall, 2011; and Iain Higgins will read some new fiction.

Cover · Contents

Cover of issue 174

Contents:

Winners:

2011 Open Season Awards

Poetry
  • Patrick Friesen, “ava gardner,” “blind in the summoner's arms,” “daughter,” “dragging the river,” “it was five in the shade in the afternoon,” and “storm windows”
  • ("storm windows" won our 2012 P. K. Page Founders' Award for Poetry; and "daughter," "dragging the river," and "storm windows" were nominated for a 2011 National Magazine Award in the Poetry category.)
  • Deanna Young, “Knowledge from a Previous Life”
  • R. Johnson, “Popsong”
  • Brian Bartlett, “From Ringing Here & There”
  • Hamish Guthrie, “Doad Gow” and “Duo”
  • Jody Aliesan, “They come in disguise”
  • John Pass, “Self Storage”
  • Karen Hofmann, “Flickers”
  • Saint James Harris Wood, “2020 (or so)”
  • Anne Marie Todkill, “Snowship, 1971” and “Trove”
  • Tim Bowling, “Now”
  • Elizabeth Ross, “Church Girls” and “Torqued Sacrum”
Fiction
  • Michael Larson, “The Woods”
  • Hal Walling, “Party”

Creative Non-Fiction

  • Toshiro Saito, “At War's End in Indonesia”
Reviews
Cover
  • Glenn E. Howarth, Untitled; Female figure/nude walking into the woods, nd
    Oil; acrylic on canvas, 114.5 cm x 114 cm
    Michael Collard Williams Collection
    Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria