'Singer, An Elegy' is a long poem memorializing the author's father and, equally, the now-obsolete industrial culture that shaped him. 'Singer, An Elegy' has rhetorical lightning flashes but aspires to much greater straightforwardness than Fetherling's previous poetry.

" 'Singer, An Elegy' possesses all the fine qualities of Fetherling's prose and i …

'Unravel' addresses our universal experiences of time and place, and how those places shape who and what we are. 'Unravel' challenges our sometimes-complacent perceptions and justifies what we all hold dear: an address and an identity.

"Armstrong pushes the potential of the lyric into darker places, inside the seams of bar booths, where things get l …

'Viral Suite' explores our relationship with self, other, environment, space, and time. The sensual and the cerebral. How the we/here/now is evolving and mutating with each downloaded packet.

"Viral Suite" is a poetic, narrative-driven science lesson. The book is unapologetically cerebral, and it takes risks." - Malahat Review

'Honeymoon in Berlin' examines the extremes of human desire, and investigates the human fascination with limits, the line between courage and fear, life and death.

"A book of bold contrasts, 'Honeymoon in Berlin' is simultaneously beautiful and ugly, alluring and repulsive. It's an achievement. It's art." - Front & Centre

Heather Haley's poetry is tough, irreverent, and in-your-face. She asks all the questions that a nice girl's not supposed to ask. Down back roads and highways, her characters long to possess the past and harness the future. Cowboys, car accidents, broken hearts, dead lovers-and potential violence-hover like heat on the horizon. Whether theyre gangs …

Whether considering the simplicity of a butterfly in flight or the terror of a cancer diagnosis, Heidi Greco confronts the world head-on, yet always with the fresh eyes of the stranger in our midst. The issues she addresses belong to the world; the settings she employs are international. At times funny and irreverent, these are pieces that dissect …

Second Prize Winner, Canada's National One-Act Playwriting Competition (1994)

Shylock is an award-winning play about a Jewish actor who finds himself condemned by his own community for his portrayal of Shakespeare’s notorious Jew. Shylock has provided much fuel for the fiery debates surrounding censorship, historical revisionism, political correct …

" 'The Sound of Whales' is a lyric-comedy about language, our obsessive reliance upon it, and how linear thought can inhibit understanding. David MacLean's play has its roots in his personal experience in dealing with governmental, educational, and medical bureaucracies. The frustration the playwright expresses toward these institutions is balanced …

'Fragments from the Big Piece' is a non-linear, stylized play inspired by &quote;eastern bloc&quote; film noir. While exploring the dark underbelly of the drug trade, the play simultaneously tells the story of a man and a woman’s crumbling relationship.