Literary Thunder Bay

    Mr. John Ellis.  Creative non fiction By Joan M. Baril “ Is it over? ” I asked my father when he walked in...

  Dear Readers: This is the last post for this blog. Over the past weeks I have worked hard to use the new format mandated by the Google blo...

A letter from Mckenzie Fisk of Mischievous Press.  Behind every great story on Canadian Shorts II is a fantastic author. We'd like you t...

  What are You Reading?  I would love to know. Email me at jbaril@tbaytel.net .   What am I reading? Here is the usual eclectic list running...

  How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa The   authors   named to the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist are: Gil Adamson , f...

  Autumn ( photo Marion Agnew) AUTUMN by Li Hai-Ku, Qing Dynasty Hoar frost is falling And the water of the river runs clear. The moon has n...

  My Canadian Shorts II sweat shirt. Love the Moose. 

  CANADIAN SHORTS II MAKES ITS DEBUT. NW Ontario publisher encourages authors to defy chaos .....  and deliver excellence in Canadian Shorts...

  Not Dead Yet For the past month or so I have been working and cursing, unable to post a Word doc on this blog.  This is crucial because su...

 

  I am trying to read or at least sample, as many of these as possible. So far I was impressed with  the first story in David Bergan's c...

Meet NOWW’s 2020 eWriter: Susan Olding . The evening will include readings by Susan and several NOWW members who participated in this year...

  I am reading the memoir of Fanny Hurst, a popular novelist and short story writer who was published in many magazines from the twenties to...

Dear Joan,   Announcing our 3rd Annual NOWW Flash Fiction Writing Contest! It’s a great way to kick off the fall – and to get you back into ...

 Dear  NOWW Members, Our fall season will be starting soon.  We will have readings starting in September.  Due to the ongoing pandemic we wi...