Diverse Voices

The Return of the Nish

By Tyson Stewart
Categories: Fiction

Gerry Smith grew up in a small town about fifty-five kilometres from Temagami, the hometown of his long-absent father, Dale King. But he’s never met the once-legendary hockey player. Even after Gerry, a ...

A Hungry Fire

By Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath
Categories: Fiction

When Queen Dido, founder of the great city of Carthage, was abandoned by her lover, the Trojan prince Aeneas, she asserted her power by climbing a funeral pyre, thus sealing a curse on his descendants ...

The Breakwater

By Leslie Shimotakahara
Categories: Fiction

One morning in Toronto, Cathy Matsumoto’s father, Yasuo, calls to announce he intends to visit a dying cousin in British Columbia.

Cathy’s never heard of this mysterious relative before, but she begrudgingly a ...

The World So Wide

By Zilla Jones
Categories: Fiction

Felicity Alexander should be charming audiences at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, not under house arrest in Grenada in October 1983, as rumours swirl that United States troops are preparing to invade. ...

White World

By Saad T. Farooqi
Categories: Fiction

Pakistan, 2083 AD.

Allah has burned the sky away. A mysterious snow falls over everything. Is it an endless winter? Is it the result of a nuclear exchange with India? A celestial impact? Now a barren wasteland, ...

Magdaragat

Edited by C. E. Gatchalian, Teodoro Alcuitas, Patria Rivera
Contributions by Teodoro Alcuitas, C. E. Gatchalian, Patria Rivera, Jim Agapito, Hari Alluri, Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, Mila Bongco-Philipzig, Nathalie De Los Santos, Kawika Guillermo, Leah Ranada, Steffi Tad-y, Vincent Ternida, Christine Añonuevo, Kaia M. Arrow, Isabel Palanca Aureus, Leon B. Aureus, Jellyn Ayudan, Hannah Balba, Monica Anne Batac, Alexa Batitis, Isabel Carlin, Rachel Evangeline Chiong, Kay Costales, Gemma Dalayoan, Ariel Dela Cruz, Sol Diana, Erica Dionora, Carolyn Fe, Renato Gandia, Primrose Madayag Knazan, José Romelo Lagman, Yves Lamson, Grace Sanchez MacCall, Lorina Mapa, Deann Louise C. Nardo, Rafael Palma, Remilyn Felix Lydia Aiden Fau Policarpio, Alma Salazar Retuta, Rani Rivera, Aileen Santiago, Angelo Santos, Carlo Sayo, and Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera
Categories: Literary Collections

Since first arriving in Canada, the Filipino community has contributed invaluably — and too often invisibly — to the fabric of Canadian society. In this anthology of Filipino-Canadian writing, Magdaragat ...