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1) Rez Sisters
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Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award when first published in 1988, The Rez Sisters has gone on to become an internationally critically acclaimed play, included in all major anthologies of Canadian literature world-wide. Now, in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, the play is being published in its original language: Cree. Included is a Note on Dialect" by the author. The...
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In this issue
Savoury short fiction from Tomson Highway, Jakob Drud, Kim Harbridge, Hannah Van Didden, Dave Gregory, NRM Roshak and R Daniel Lester. Poetry from Erin Kirsh and Peter Norman. Further adventures of Frankie Ray in The Extra from Mel Anastasiou and a brand new Allaigna novella from JM Landels. Plus the winners of the Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest and the SiWC runner up, capped off with a chilling tale from Kris Sayer.
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Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time, to laugh ourselves to death.
Ever the trickster, Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language,...
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Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos-a town known as the Earth's belly button-to deliver some thrilling news. Salamoo Cook, the Grand Chief of all rabbits in the world, was on his way to announce a mysterious contest. The prize? A year's supply of all-healing waaskee-choos juice fresh from spruce cones that have just fallen. Would Weeskits be able to help his brother Keegach win the juice to rid his wife of...
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«Ne parler qu'une langue... c'est comme vivre dans une maison avec une seule fenêtre», c'est ce que dit Tomson Highway. Dans son livre A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism, l'auteur s'interroge sur la force avec laquelle les mots peuvent illuminer notre monde. Depuis sa naissance légendaire dans un banc de neige dans le nord-ouest du Manitoba à son illustre carrière artistique, il démontre que le cri, le déné,...
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