Coming soon: FPQ 5

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Stories from Laure Baudot, Nancy Branch, Michael Bryson, and Jessica Westhead.

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Five Questions with Pauline Holdstock

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Pauline Holdstock is an internationally published fiction writer and essayist. She is the author of Beyond Measure, shortlisted for several prizes including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Giller Prize, and winner of the Ethel Wilson Prize for fiction. Her latest novel, Into … Continue reading

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Five Questions with Grace O’Connell

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Grace O’Connell lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared in various publications including Walrus, Taddle Creek, Quill and Quire, and EYE Weekly, and she holds an MFA in creative writing. She has taught creative writing at George Brown College and now works as a … Continue reading

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Five Questions with Lee Kvern

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Lee Kvern is the award-winning author of short stories and novels. Her novel The Matter of Sylvie was nominated for the 2011 Alberta Book Awards. Her novella Afterall was nominated for the 2006 Alberta Book Awards. Her short stories are also well celebrated: “White” was … Continue reading

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Five Questions with Andrew Forbes

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Andrew Forbes has published music and film criticism both online and in print, and his fiction has appeared in The Charlatan, Carleton Now, and The Feathertale Review. He is currently at work on his first collection of stories. When not labouring before daybreak … Continue reading

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Cover Stories (Pt.2)

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And now, some anecdotes on how the covers for our second collection (Spring 2011) came to be.

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Twitter Rundown: Your Favourite Short Stories of 2011

Happy New Year, everyone! We’re about to embark on our second year of short lit revelry – but, as my Pa always says, you can’t look forward without first looking back. So we asked our friends on Twitter which stories … Continue reading

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Twitter Rundown: Short Stories that Changed Our Lives

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A week and a bit ago, we asked our tweeps: What are the short stories that have changed your lives, and how? Here’s what they had to share.

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FPQ Fall 2011 Preview

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This is our upcoming quarterly collection, You Can’t Go Home Again:

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Stories Everyone #1: “The Box”

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Welcome to the first installment of “Stories Everyone,” the crowdsourced storytelling experiment we conceived while brainstorming things to include on our Canzine Toronto 2011 table. The concept is simple: we get a notebook, and write a couple of lines to start off … Continue reading

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