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Stories of Second Chances

Featured Writer Katherine Koller says of this list: "My new collection of fifteen short stories, Winning Chance, explores those second and third chances that the universe provides, and what we do with them. Here are ten selections, in no particular order, which also examine that next chance. "I love this quote by Giorgos Seferis, and have it at the front my reading log: 'Don’t ask who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.' Although I don’t consider myself in any way a lion, here are some delicious short story collections by Canadian writers."

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  • A Song for Nettie Johnson

    Sawai, Gloria
    Gobsmacking great stories by the late Edmontonian and Governor General’s Award winner. [Also available as a book.]
    eBook, 2012Coteau Books, 2012

  • To Everything a Season

    Mourre, Helen, 1949-
    Saskatchewan stories that cause shortness of breath at the end, dealing with the loss of family relationships when you leave God’s country, the sturdy soil and work of the land.
    Book, 2012Regina, Sask. : Your Nickel's Worth Publishing, 2012. — MOU

  • All Saints

    Stories

    Miller, K. D. (Kathleen Daisy), 1951-
    Linked stories of lost souls who somehow reach redemption. [Also available as an eBook.]
    Book, 2014Windsor, Ont. : Biblioasis, [2014] — MIL

  • Paradise and Elsewhere

    Stories

    Page, Kathy, 1958-
    Haunting stories in alternate mythic realities or futuristic regressive societies with exquisite sentences and sinking, searing endings. I also loved the recent novel Dear Evelyn by the same author. [Also available as an eBook.]
    Book, 2014Windsor, Ont. : Biblioasis, [2014] — PAG

  • Island

    The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod

    MacLeod, Alistair
    Every story here, some almost novellas, is a wonder, about survival and keeping on together in the beauty and barriers of coastal life. [Also available as a book.]
    eBook, 2010McClelland & Stewart, 2010

  • Rising Abruptly

    Stories

    Villeneuve, Gisèle, 1950-
    Winner of the Writers Guild of Alberta award for fiction, this collection is about mountain climbing from Canmore to Tibet. Read this one for finely crafted language above the tree line. [Also available as an eBook.]
    Book, 2016Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2016. — VIL

  • Glass Beads

    Dumont, Dawn, 1978-
    Connected stories about four friends from the rez living in the city, this book propelled me to read the author’s backlist after it won a Saskatchewan Book Award. [Also available as eBook and eAudiobook.]
    Book, 2017Saskatoon, Saskatchewan : Thistledown Press, [2017] — DUM

  • Something for Everyone

    Moore, Lisa
    These stories, by a master of the form, surprise and so engage and bring the reader into intimate proximity with the characters. [Also available as a book.]
    eBook, 2018House of Anansi Press Inc, 2018

  • Anything Is Possible

    Strout, Elizabeth
    By the author of novels Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton, these connected stories invite us to understand people materially poor but spiritually rich and resilient. [Also available as an audiobook, eBook, and eAudiobook.]
    Book, 2017New York : Random House, [2017] — STR

  • The Collected Stories

    Shields, Carol, 1935-2003
    By one of my favorite novelists, these stories are exquisite in both sentence style and sensitivity. [Also available as an eBook.]
    Book, 2004Toronto, Ont. : Random House Canada, 2004. — SHI

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