Fiction Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Writers in Aspic
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919890770
- Publish Date
- Jan 1998
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
A collection of writing by eight of Canada's best contemporary story writers presented in tandem with critical essays immediately following each story. Includes short fiction by Mavis Gallant, Hugh Hood, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Clark Blaise, and criticism by Lawrence Mathews, W.J. Keith, Michael Darling and Robert Lecker.
About the author
John Metcalf is one of Canada's most distinguished literary editors, writers, critics, and anthologists. He has helped shape the sensibility of an entire group of emerging writers through his work at the Porcupine's Quill press. Known for his strong views about literary standards, Metcalf has nurtured some of our most essential writers, including Leon Rooke, Russel Smith, Terry Griggs, Caroline Adderson, Annabel Lyon, Andrew Pyper, Steven Heighton, Jane Urquhart, Elise Levine, Clarke Blaise, Michael Winter, and Mary Swan, among dozens of other fine authors.John Metcalf is the Senior Editor of Porcupine's Quill. An accomplished writer, editor, and anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction including "Adult Entertainment, The Lady Who Sold Furniture", and "Kicking Against the Pricks: Essays".
