With a thousand members throughout the province, the Federation of BC Writers is one of the most active and vigorous writers' organizations in the country. The Fed Anthology, edited by Susan Musgrave on the occasion of the group's 25th anniversary, is a colourful bazaar of previously unpublished fiction and poetry by nearly 50 of those members. Like the Fed itself, the book includes both authors whose names are instantly familiar to all readers of Can Lit and others who are emerging only now to take their place as the next generation. The country has learned to turn to British Columbia when taking the pulse of Canadian writing. The Fed Anthology is a lively part of the process. The anthology features work by Tom Wayman, Sandy Shreve, Len Dufour, Steven Mills, Peggy Herring, Loranne Brown, Linda Rogers, Jim Christy, Kate Braid, Lorna Crozier, Caroline Woodward, Ursula Vaira, Patrick Lane, Luanne Armstrong and many others.

Praise for The Fed Anthology:

" ... accomplished stories and poems about serious issues: unhappy marriages, divorce, infidelity, illness, miscarriages, parenthood, old age, absence, loss, violence, abuse. Musgrave has chosen carefully from the Federation's 1000 members and produced a collection (marking the group's 25th anniversary) consistent in tone and featuring works similar in theme. While serious, these previously unpublished works are also refreshingly current, fresh as a centenarian's vomit." (Canadian Literature)

"An anthology (the word comes from the Greek anthos and means 'a gathering of flowers') is an excellent place to start when you want to acquaint yourself with new voices and different writing styles. The Fed Anthology, a first for the Fed, offers readers a taste of everything, a chance to smell not only the roses and the night-flowering jasmine but the skunk cabbage and the stinkweed as well (to extend the 'gathering of flowers' metaphor, which I am not quite sure I am capable of doing). More plainly put, you'll find writing here that is painfully beautiful and beautiful writing that reeks of painful truths." (Susan Musgrave, from the foreword)