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 from the past year really stood out to them. And boy did they step up.

Thanks to everyone who responded, for giving us a reading list to kick off 2012! Continue reading

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Twitter Rundown: Short Stories that Changed Our Lives

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

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

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Stories Everyone #1: “The Box”

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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Stories about the covers of our stories (Pt. 1)

As I mentioned on our twitter (@foundpress) a few days back, I’ve lately become especially aware of just how much narrative affects – has always affected – my design decisions. I don’t know if that’s the right way to do … Continue reading

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Five Questions with Caroline Adderson

Caroline Adderson is the author of two internationally published novels (A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice), two collections of short stories (Bad Imaginings, Pleased to Meet You), and three books for young readers (Very Serious Children, I, Bruno, Bruno For … Continue reading

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Five Questions with Maria Meindl

Maria Meindl’s essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in journals including the Literary Review of Canada, Descant, Musicworks and Queen Street Quarterly. She has made two series for CBC Radio’s Ideas: Parent Care, and Remembering Polio. Her book Outside the … Continue reading

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Five Questions with Dave Margoshes

Dave Margoshes (author of Bright Lights on Broadway, from FPQ Summer 2011) is a Saskatchewan writer whose stories and poems have appeared widely in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies, including six times in the Best Canadian Stories volumes. In 2009 he was a … Continue reading

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Five Questions with Richard Rosenbaum

Richard Rosenbaum (author of The Oughts, from FPQ Summer 2011) is, in addition to writing, an editor for The Incongruous Quarterly and Broken Pencil . His blog - onemillionstories.blogspot.com - is home base for a campaign to Help Richard Sell One Million Stories, a noble … Continue reading

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FPQ Summer 2011 now on the Kindle store

That’s right, folks! Close (Found Press Quarterly, Summer 2011) and its four collected titles are now available from the Kindle store.

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