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It’s hardly news anymore, but we thought we’d mention that Carmine Starnino (Riddle Fence #3 contributor) and Michael Crummey (Riddle Fence board member) have both been nominated for Governor General’s Awards in, respectively, the categories of poetry and fiction. Starnino is shortlisted for This Way Out; Crummey is there for Galore. Congratulations to both of them and best of luck.
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Riddle Fence #11
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Issue #11 is a two-headed beast – not the sort who chased you out of the basement when you were only a sleeping child, but the sort you want to get to know a bit better, maybe even share a picnic table beer with and find out who the beast really is, inside.
Riddle Fence #11 presents you with two covers – two distinct and inventive sections. On our main cover, Dave Sheppard’s The Wound foretells the struggle to survive that many of our characters face in our fiction section. And on the reverse cover, Rhonda Pelley gives us the green wings of Migration as we travel to Ireland for our special Irish poetry feature.
Our Irish Poetry special feature section was curated and is introduced by Patrick Cotter of the Irish literary journal, Southword. Cotter himself writes, “Any effort to corral Irish poets into ‘schools’ is fraught with ‘issues.’ … If this cross-generational selection of Irish poets has any cohesion it may be more visible to an outside eye, an eye in Canada than to one at home.” So, you will have to read through these wonderful 26 poems by 26 Irish poets and find out yourself.
The Irish Poetry is accompanied by Newfoundland artists, Darren Whalen, finishing winter with Sheilagh’s Brush, and Jacob Rolfe, piecing together A Dream in three parts.
Concurrently, Southword has published a feature on Newfoundland poetry chosen by Riddle Fence editors Mark Callanan, Leslie Vryenhoek, and Shoshanna Wingate. You can view the Southword issue here.
On the fiction side of Riddle Fence #11, we hit you first with the First Prize Winner of the Riddle Fence 2011 Short Fiction Contest – Caitlin Laura Galway’s Dog Fights in Dresden, which passes from beautiful city to fearful dog fight.
Then we get you with three more short fiction pieces of an horrific nature:
Matthew Heiti abandons you in a broken down police van, freezing, and no one around but your partner and a body in the back.
Andrew MacDonald then sends your parents into the blue and only the balloon returns.
And finally, you lose yourself with Ryan Paterson.
The short fiction is bejeweled with stunning visual art. Colette Urban’s classic car; Dave Sheppard’s integrations of human, animal and survival; Brendan George Ko’s good book; the flowery lady of Robyn Cumming; a nightmare’s re-creation by Jan Avendano; into a suffering forest with David Kaarsemaker; and Tekar’s installation of aerosol artwork.
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