The Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

by Nancy Jo Cullen

"Gas, grass, or No one rides for free."
So begins this cheeky and chirpy collection by Nancy Jo Cullen. Working-class, a little queer, and a lot funny, Cullen's characters--from the hymn-singing Catholic merch salesman to the young lez, hitching rides beside a born-again pile of ashes--encounter the killer decisions that will invisibly, quietly, and quirkily shape our lives.

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 22, 2013

About the author

Nancy Jo Cullen’s fiction and poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2018, The Journey Prize, The Puritan, Grain, filling Station, Plenitude, Prairie Fire, This Magazine, Room and Arc Poetry Magazine. Her first novel, The Western Alienation Merit Badge is published by Wolsak and Wynn. Her short story collection, Canary, (Biblioasis) was the winner of the 2012 Metcalfe Rooke prize.

She has published 3 collections of poetry with Calgary’s Frontenac House Press and is mid-way through her fourth collection of poetry.

Nancy is the 2010 winner of the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging Gay Writer. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.

A transplanted westerner, she now lives in Kingston, Ontario.