“Sometimes [the author] will talk about horror, sometimes about love. Sometimes the love they examine is also the horror they expose. They will look at memories and sort them or they will rage at the machine. They will seek to find their identity in the shifting sands of an ever-changing universe. They will throw up images of stark beauty or complex ugliness; propose maxims with deep moral implications or question slippery ethical standards; they will juxtapose the ludicrous with the divine and they will mock, glorify, penetrate or expose just about everything in society. All these will our authors do to discover the only ‘one great thing'—the story.”
—from the introduction by David Ferry
Contributors: T. Berto • Walter Borden • George Boyd • Daniel Brooks • Ronnie Burkett• Aaron Bushkowsky • Dave Carley • Camyar Chai • George Elliott Clarke • Torquil Colbo • Michael Cook • David S. Craig • Daniel Danis • Darrell Dennis • Matthew Edison • Floyd Favel • Norm Foster • Brad Fraser • David French • Florence Gibson • David Gow• Linda Griffiths • Stephen Guy-McGrath • Don Hannah • Christopher Hunt • Maureen Hunter• Joel Hynes • Lawrence Jeffery • Daniel Libman • Patricia Ludwick • Bryden MacDonald • Daniel MacIvor • Michael Lewis MacLennan • Robert Majzels • Steven Mayoff • John Mighton• Michael A. Miller• Wajdi Mouawad • Colleen Murphy • James W. Nichol • James . O'Reilly • Michael Ondaatje • Mieko Ouchi • Gordon Pengilly • Anton Piatigorsky • Joseph Jomo Pierre • James Reaney • Sheldon Rosen • Richard Sanger• Djanet Sears • Emil Sher • Jason Sherman • Kent Stetson • Allan Stratton • Drew Hayden Taylor • Vern Thiessen • Judith Thompson • Kristen Thomson • R.H. Thomson • Chaz Thorne • Michel Tremblay • Colleen Wagner • George F. Walker • Tom Walmsley • Sherry White • Gina Wilkinson • Betty Jane Wylie