The best of today's Canadian short fiction is showcased in this third
volume of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology series, which
features the 12 stories short-listed--among them the three winners--for
the 2013 $15,000 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition. The book
contains contemporary writing that reflects a diversity in emerging and
established Canadian writers, including Austin Clarke, Leon Rooke,
Priscilla Uppal, Greg Hollingshead, Sang Kim, Matthew R. Loney, Helen
Marshall, George McWhirter, Rob Peters, David Somers, Yakos
Spiliotopoulos and Liz Windhorst Harmer. The collection contains the
winners, including Kim's When John Lennon Died, a story about loss,
homesickness, and nostalgia; Uppal's Cover Before Striking, a
disturbing, poetic tale sure to make readers' hearts race; and Clarke's
They Never Told Me, a haunting, unforgettable story that reaches the
deepest places in the mind and heart. Following the stories are
biographies of each contributor.