“God’s Country” is taken from An Underlying Reverence: Stories of Cape Breton, Cape Breton University Press (1994). It originally appeared in From a High Thin Wire, NeWest Press (1982). Joan Clark published a second collection of short stories, Swimming Towards the Light, in 1990. Among other awards, Clark has been presented with the 1991 Marian Engel Award, recognizing her entire body of work.
“The Innocent” is from The Woman from Away, Breton Books (2009). It first appeared in The Promised Land, Medicine Label Press (1992), and again in John R. and Son and Other Stories. Tessie Gillis’s short stories were also published in Stories from the Woman from Away.
“Sailing” comes from All the Men Are Sleeping: Selected Fiction, Doubleday Canada (2002); it first appeared in Eyestone: Stories, Pushcart Press (1988). D.R. MacDonald has received two Pushcart Prizes, an Ingram Merrill Award, and an O. Henry Award for his short fiction.
“Overburden” was published in Loose Pearls and Other Stories, Cape Breton University Press (2010). It has also appeared in The Day the Men Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton, Breton Books (1999), and in The Antigonish Review (1997). D.C. Troicuk’s short speculative fiction can be found in Undercurrents, Airborne, and Grey Area.
“Jesus Christ, Murdeena” appeared in Play the Monster Blind: Stories, Doubleday Canada (2000). And in Spanish in the Barcelona Review, (2000). Lynn Coady’s newest collection is Hellgoing: Stories, House of Anansi Press (2013).
“Lauchie and Liza and Rory” is from The Story So Far…: 11 Short Stories, Breton Books (1997). Sheldon Currie’s story has had other lives in The Antigonish Review, The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum, and The Cape Breton Collection, and as a published and performed play called Lauchie, Liza & Rory.
Essayist, poet and fiction writer, Clive Doucet’s “Philibert Goes to Heaven” comes from the book of linked short stories called The Priest’s Boy, Black Moss Press (1992).
“The Epistle” is from The Komodo Dragon: and Other Stories, Cape Breton University Press (2006). Douglas Arthur Brown’s short fiction and translations have been published in literary journals, magazines, newspapers and anthologies in Canada and Denmark.
R.J. MacSween’s “The Burnt Forest” is taken from The Burnt Forest and other stories, The Antigonish Press (1975). For a list of his books, see Stewart Donovan’s biography called The Forgotten World of R.J. MacSween: A Life.
“Johanna, an tàillear” is from The Last Gael and Other Stories, Breton Books (1997). It first appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio (1989). More short stories—and paintings—by Ellison Robertson are in his Cranberry Head, Cape Breton University Press (1985).
Mike Finigan’s “Passion Sunday” first appeared in the Antigonish Review, which earned it a place in the Journey Prize Anthology (1999).
“The Boat” is taken from Island: The Collected Stories, McClelland & Stewart (2000, 2001). It earlier appeared in The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, McClelland and Stewart (1976, 1992). Alistair MacLeod’s short stories were also published in As Birds Bring Forth the Sun.
“The Family Tree” is taken from The Moonlight Skater: 9 Cape Breton Stories & The Dream, Breton Books (1993), which won Beatrice MacNeil the first of her three Dartmouth Book Awards for Fiction.
“Marigold” is from Righteous Living, Turnstone Press (1999), a book short-listed for the Danuta Gleed Award. Maureen Hull’s fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and several of her stories have been read on CBC radio.
“An Underlying Reverence” was published in the anthology called An Underlying Reverence: Stories of Cape Breton, Cape Breton University Press (1994). It first appeared in The Antigonish Review (1991), as have several of Angus MacDougall’s other stories.
“Harvest” is from The Day the Men Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton, Breton Books (1999). It appeared with other stories by Claudia Gahlinger in Woman in the Rock, Gynergy Books (1993). Gahlinger also published A Day in the Life of a Warrior, Or, Safe in the Body of Goddess.
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