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A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian Stories
About the author
John Metcalf was the Senior Editor at the Porcupine's Quill until 2005, and is now a fiction editor at Biblioasis. He is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including
The Museum at the End of the World,
Vital Signs,
Standing Stones: Selected Stories,
Going Down Slow, and
Kicking Against the Pricks. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Daniel Wells is the publisher at Biblioasis and
CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries. He lives in Windsor with his wife and three children.
Summary
Now in its fiftieth year,the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected by editors John Metcalf and Dan Wells, Best Canadian 50 celebrates fifty years of the country's best short fiction.
Foreword
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