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Poetry by the winners of the annual Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize, held each year in honour of activist poet Muriel Marjorie. As well as first and second prizes, there is a dedicated prize for a poet from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and a prize for an entrant selected at random. Honourable mentions are also included.

In 1803, having survived kidnapping, mutiny, and shipwreck, Jamie Sharpe is finally sailing home, when his ship is attacked by Barbary pirates. Taken captive by the infamous renegade now known as Kemal Rais, Jamie and his cohorts are forced into servitude, but their hearts remain unconquered and longing for escape. With the shadow of war looming over the region, will the arrival of an American ship mean freedom or more danger?

Spanning the breadth of the author's writing life, this collection of short stories celebrates the land and those who live by it. From the heart of the Chilcotin across British Columbia and to far-flung locales, share the insights into and of various territories, the people who inhabit and visit them, and at least one dog.

In the 1920s, suffragist Edith fights to climb the ladder at Victoria's Daily Colonist, while trying to live the life of a free, modern woman in a society that isn't quite ready for it. In the 1910s, Edith sees the love of her life head off to fight a far-away war, while she struggles to find her way around Victorian attitudes, especially her mother's. Trying to build her future, Edith suddenly finds herself face-to-face with her past as l...

An anthology collecting the winning poems from the 2022 Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize. Winners are Janet Kvammen, Jacquie Pearce, Brad Akeroyd, Dave Olsen, Kamila Rina, and Natasha Sanders-Kay.

Fire from the Heart 2021 collects the winning poems from the 2021 Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize, which honours the vitality, vivacity, and outspokenpresence of poet-activist Muriel Marjorie, who passed on in the fall of 2018.An Indigenous social justice activist, poet, and spoken word artist, what Muriel had to say would often literally wake you up. Her enthusiastic encouragement of innovative creative endeavours was infectious.

You wouldn't be the first to want to know about her, but Brenda Craigdarroch doesn't have the time or patience to tell you. She's got things to do: maybe not better things, but certainly other things.She's a hard woman to describe. She hates description, so does her best to defy it. In any case, it's pretty well known that she doesn't believe them, has an odd history with her dentist, doesn't post on social media, really liked that bitcoin min...

Offering a fresh perspective on the essential but technical subject of script formatting, The Dreaded Curse shows rather than tells. Demonstrating the elements of screenwriting inside the format engages readers (and writers) in an accessible way, reminding them that story is at the heart of the form. Award-winning screenwriting instructor Kat Montagu crafted the tale of two feisty young witches cursed by a ghost of a dead screenwriter. When he...

From the earliest days of Victoria through their hopes for a brighter future, three generations of women struggle and toil to better their lot in life.Edie journeys across oceans, searching for the place where she can build a home.Lucy readies herself for the challenges of a new world, only to suffer loss after loss.Maggie shoulders the burdens of her lot in life, never losing hope that more awaits her.From their shared home looking out at the...

Violent memories haunt Joseph Munro. Returning to Liberia years after fleeing as a war refugee, he rediscovers its mystery and natural beauty, but the extreme poverty and scars from decades of bloodshed unleash his memories. Then, his world changes forever when a moral dilemma echoes his family's corrupt history. To stop Joseph's secrets from swallowing his sanity, a woman whose journey is the opposite of his, a village healer, and a faithless...

In 1803, cocky Jamie Sharpe graduates top in his class from Bullard's Academy, aiming to become a ship's captain like his long-at-sea father. Unfortunately, wealthy slave trader Captain Cutts produces a note he holds on the Sharpe family fortune. He demands immediate payment or, in lieu, Jamie's mother's virtue and her daughter's hand in marriage to his son, Simon. Only a small fortune can save the family.Racing to secure the money, Jamie is a...

What if you could live your life over, making all the right decisionsand avoiding all the mistakes? You can, vicariously through yourchildren, but is that a good idea?101 standalone stories about parenting or being parented - frombullying to discipline, grandmothers to ice cream, old friends to firstlove - each culminate in a lesson that messed the author up, so he'snot going to teach them to his kids until it's too late.Brad Yung mines his pa...

When the emperor wore plaid and people still hung phones on walls, Brad Yung's weekly comic strip Stay as you are. was a beacon to the slacker generation that bathed in irony and rejected everything else.A true underground underdog, the strip appeared in photocopied zines, alternative weeklies, small-town newspapers, and a few national magazines. Too savage, too biting, its targets too spread out and numerous to mention, the strip knew it was ...

Speak easy. Prohibition-era New York swims in a sea of illegal booze and it seems like the party will never end. Even so, dark deeds and bad men lurk behind the good life. Freshly returned from Europe's conflicts, strong and silent Riley wants to rush back to the farm but smooth-talker Cornelius aspires to a new life. As a crime reporter amidst the city's icons, from the Algonquin Round Table's glitterati to the seedy underbelly where deals ge...

A rancher is consumed to take more and more land, driven by the memory of his father. A hunger for power in the province's capital may result in a dam flooding the area. Then, a gunshot changes everything.An unforgiving winter envelops young Noah Hanlon, on the run after being charged with murder. Searching endless terrain for the real killer, he reconnects with his Indigenous heritage. Revelations point in unexpected directions. A whiff of pe...

A long-kept secret bubbles up and starts changing lives, when a sudden mysterious death triggers even deeper upheavals. No one can be sure if it was an accident, suicide, or murder.The question ripples outward, casting a shadow over the beauty and spiritual influence of the region, leaving no one above suspicion. The divinations of an artist-shaman, the studies of an English teacher, and the machinations of a law student desperate for answers ...

Quiet, intense, and deadly, Riley is fated never to live the respectable life he convinces himself he craves. Smart, witty, and cocky, Cornelius fancies himself a lover, though he's actually a bit of a bastard. Together, they're a force to be reckoned with.George Patton takes them to meet Pancho Villa. Winston Churchill dines with them. A mysterious secret agent targets them, forcing one to spy on Rosa Luxemburg and the other into a fixed boxi...

The American electoral process intersects with Native land rights and environmental concerns as the multigenerational saga of the Hanlon family races towards an uncertain future.Billionaire populist presidential hopeful Billy Joe Northrop and good ol' boy political strategist Bull O'Connor have a plan to take the White House by storm through a web of deceit and backroom deals. While dating Northrop's daughter Harriet, newly minted Atlanta repo...