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Canadian Short Stories
This book offers a carefully chosen selection of recent work by some of Canada's leading writers of short fiction, it is an impressive record of the state of the art in the 1980s. The contributors are Margaret Atwood; Sandra Birdsell; Neil Bissoondath, Barry Callaghan, Matt Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Katherine Govier, W.P. Kinsella, Norman Levine, Joyce Marshall, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Carol Shields, Elizabeth Spencer, Audrey Thomas, W.D. Valgardson, Guy Vanderhaeghe and Helen Weinzweig.
362 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1978
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About the author
Robert Weaver
76 booksRobert Weaver worked as a program organizer and producer for CBC radio from 1948 to 1985, and in that role helped bring to notice such writers as Alice Munro and Mordecai Richler. A prolific editor of anthologies, he was also a driving force behind the well-known literary magazine The Tamarack Review.
He was also the editor of several anthologies including the Canadian Short Stories editions (1952, 1960, 1968, 1978, 1985) and The Anthology Anthology: A Selection from Thirty Years of CBC Radio's "Anthology".
He was also the editor of several anthologies including the Canadian Short Stories editions (1952, 1960, 1968, 1978, 1985) and The Anthology Anthology: A Selection from Thirty Years of CBC Radio's "Anthology".
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