The Penguin Book Of Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories

by Lisa Moore

Master short story writer and novelist Lisa Moore brings her talents to The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories , spanning the last two decades of the twentieth century to the present. An enthralling and irresistible collection of twenty-two established writers and talented new voices who attest to the richness and continued popularity of the short story. The authors featured include Margaret Atwood, Bonnie Burnard, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Carol Shields, among others.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Canada, Anthologies

384 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 2006

About the author

Lisa Moore has written two collections of stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open, as well as a novel, Alligator.

Open and Alligator were both nominated for the Giller Prize. Alligator won the Commonwealth Prize for the Canadian Caribbean Region and the ReLit Award, and Open won the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Prize for Short Fiction.

Lisa has also written for television, radio, magazines (EnRoute, The Walrus and Chatelaine) and newspapers (The Globe and Mail and The National Post).

Lisa has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She also studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she became a member of The Burning Rock Collective, a group of St. John's writers.

Reviews

[Clare · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book, full of fantastic stories by Canadian women. My only disappointment was that, because I do a lot of journal reading (like The New Quarterly), I found I had already read most of them. But that's not a criticism of the book--it's just that I was looking forward to discovering a bunch of stories I had never seen before.

[Abbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like some of the stories, including Wenlock's edge by Munro and Between Wars. Other's fully fly over my head like "My Husband's Jump" - literally flying over heads.
Short stories make me reflect more than longer ones because they are about the drinking in the sights of the narrator/naratress/....

[Orla Hegarty · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know most of these authors from their novels and a few from just short stories. Many stories resonated deeply and the rest were merely entertaining. A great collection.

[Cecily · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great collection of short stories from some of Canada's best female authors.

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure why Moore gets top-billing; Nancy Lee is the gem in this collection, and of course Atwood can shake you even with a most everyman setting

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent anthology of short stories by Canadian women. They are all good reads! My favourite is "Wenlock Edge" by Alice Munro.