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Transcript of freehand spring 2012 catalogue
freehand books spring 2012
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telephone 403.452.5662 facsimile 403.233.0001
managing editor Sarah Ivany [email protected]
design by Natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design
Freehand Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program.
Freehand Books, an imprint of Broadview Press, acknowledges the financial support for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.
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With Seen Reading, Julie Wilson has done something revolutionary for the
time: seamlessly combine books-related gossip, arts reportage, and creative
writing in every post. The results are exhilarating and deliciously voyeuristic.
GEORGE MU RR AY Bookninja.com
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Seen Readingshort fiction by julie wilson
Seen Reading is the exciting and unique debut collection of microfictions by Canada’s pre-eminent literary voyeur, Julie Wilson. Based on the award-winning and critically acclaimed online movement of the same name, Seen Reading gathers over a hundred short fictions inspired by sightings of people reading in public, on Toronto’s transit system. Under Wilson’s watchful eye, readers both read and reveal narratives, and these acts of reading have in turn inspired acts of writing. Armed only with a brief physical sketch of each reader and the title of the book they were seen reading, Wilson has crafted fictional responses to each sighting, re-inventing the seen reader in poetic pieces of short fiction. Tender, poignant, and deliciously voyeuristic, these stories form a beautifully inspired fictional map, joyfully charting an urban centre’s cultural commitment to books and literature.
Julie Wilson lives in Toronto where she works as a publishing consultant and also as an online marketing mentor with the Association of Canadian Publishers. Julie is the founder of Seen Reading — a three time finalist for Best Culture Blog at the Canadian Blog Awards —and the community blog and magazine, Book Madam & Associates, an online hub for publishing news and entertainment.
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Melanie Schnell grew up on a farm in southeastern Saskatchewan and has lived in Regina, Vancouver, Toronto, Boston, Colombia, Thailand, Kenya, and Sudan. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has written for television, magazines, and journals across Canada. While The Sun Is Above Us is her first novel.
It is too difficult to release this war from our blood, when it long ago shaped who we are, how we live, how we move, how we breathe.
Blood has filled this earth up; it has made God angry. We must be forgiven or nothing will change.
While The Sun Is Above Us takes readers deep into the extraordinary world of Sudan through the intertwined narratives of two women. In the midst of a bloody civil war, Adut is brutally captured and held as a slave for eight years. Sandra, fleeing her life in Canada, travels to South Sudan as an aid worker but soon finds herself unwittingly embroiled in a violent local conflict. When chance brings Adut and Sandra together in a brief but profound moment, their lives change forever.
In captivating prose, Melanie Schnell offers imaginative insight into the lives of innocents in a land at war, rendering horrific experiences with exquisite clarity. While The Sun Is Above Us explores the immense power of the imagination, the human desire for connection, and the endurance of hope.
While The Sun Is Above Us a novel by melanie schnell
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Leslie’s dark tones are reminiscent of Rebecca Brown,
but she is a creative force all her own. Her star is rising.
Watch for her.
HIROMI GOTO
People Who Disappearshort fiction by ale x leslie
In her remarkable debut collection of short fiction, Alex Leslie offers readers a haunting and beautiful exploration of disappearance. Laced with the spectres of things gone missing — families, histories, landscapes, sanity, love, friendship — these stories buzz with a palpable, electric fear of loss as Leslie’s characters attempt to navigate the absences that come to fill and define their lives.
Alex Leslie is from Vancouver. Her chapbook of microfictions Twenty Objects For The New World was published by Nomados Press in 2011. Leslie’s writing has been published in literary journals across Canada and in the Best Canadian Stories anthology series (Oberon Press). She has won a Gold National Magazine Award for personal journalism and a cbc Literary Award for fiction.
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Ian Williams is the author of Not Anyone’s Anything (Freehand Books, 2011) and You Know Who You Are (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010). He completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto and is currently an English professor at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He was also a scholar at the National Humanities Center Summer Institute for Literary Study. His writing has appeared in Fiddlehead, Arc, Contemporary Verse 2, Rattle, jubilat, Confrontation, The Antigonish Review, Gargoyle, Folio, Pebble Lake Review, Callaloo, Descant, and Matrix Magazine.
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These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, the poems in Ian Williams’ Personals are voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets, and also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don’t end. With a deft hand and playful ear, Williams entices the reader to stumble alongside his characters as they search, again and again, for intimacy, for love, and for each other.
Personalspoetry by ian williams
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Personalspoetry by ian williams
here is where we disembark
Clea Robertsit’s hardbeing queen: the
dust y springfield poems
Jeanette Lynes
“It’s exciting to see such cohesiveness and range
in a first collection. With haiku-spare density,
Roberts’ intricate lyrics accumulate into grand
gestures of longing.”
Winnipeg Free Press
“Roberts belongs to a Canadian pastoral tradition
wherein nature, while awesome in its majesty
(and deserving of poetic exaltation), has teeth
to be reckoned with.”
Quill & Quire
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”Lynes succeeds admirably in making
flesh of Dust.”
Quill & Quire
{ Longlisted for the 2011 Alberta
Readers’ Choice Award
{ Finalist for the Gerald Lampert
Memorial Award
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“A touching and atmospheric story.”
Susan Swan
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and me among them
Kristen den Hartoghold me nowStephen Gauer
”[Hold Me Now] is fascinating at every
turn and it leads to a beautifully rendered
catharsis. Have a handkerchief handy.”
The Globe and Mail
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f e at u r e d
“As the rate of Alzheimer’s continues to increase
as the population ages, Tangles joins Jeffrey Moore’s
novel The Memory Artists and Sarah Polley’s film
Away from Her at the head of a list of illuminating
and much-needed artistic responses.”
The Montreal Gazette
“There’s hope in the art of Olivier, whose line drawings
evoke the work of R.O. Blechman. Though much of the
work — some old, some produced for the book — is
bleak, he infuses a remarkable amount of humour and
joy into his drawings.”
Mark Medley, The National Post
“The book’s greatest strength is its profound ability to
humanize a frequently misunderstood condition, and
to highlight mental illness as the ‘orphan child’ of the
health care community.”
Quill & Quire
{ Finalist for the Hubert Evans
NonFiction Prize (BC Book
Prizes)
{ Finalist for the Writers’ Trust
NonFiction Prize
{ Included in The Globe and
Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2010
{ Winner of a CBC Bookie for
Best Comic or Graphic Novel
nonfiction{ Finalist for the Wilfred
Eggleston Award for
Nonfiction
{ Shortlisted for the
2011 Alberta Readers’
Choice Award
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bitter medicine
A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness
Clem Martini and Olivier Martinitangles A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me
Sarah Leavitt
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Fiction978-1-55481-054-3 And Me Among Them Kristen den Hartog [2011] 21.95978-1-55481-016-1 Blue Sunflower Startle Yasmin Ladha [2010] 21.95 21.95 29.95
978-1-55111-879-6 Buying Cigarettes for the Dog Stuart Ross [2009] 19.95 19.95 29.95978-1-55111-730-0 Description of the Blazing World, A Michael Murphy [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95978-1-55111-978-6 Doctrine of Affections, The Paul Headrick [2010] 23.95 23.95 29.95978-1-55111-999-1 Good to a Fault Marina Endicott [2009] 19.95978-1-55481-021-5 Hold Me Now Stephen Gauer [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95978-1-55111-927-4 Mother Superior Saleema Nawaz [2008] 23.95 23.95 29.95978-1-55111-995-3 Not Anyone’s Anything Ian Williams [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95978-1-55481-060-4 Not Being on a Boat Esmé Claire Keith [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95978-1-55111-932-8 Open Arms Marina Endicott [2009] 23.95978-1-55481-059-8 People Who Disappear Alex Leslie [2012] 21.95 21.95 29.95978-1-55111-925-0 postcard and other stories Anik See [2009] 23.95 23.95 29.95978-1-55481-062-8 Reverse Cowgirl, The David Whitton [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95978-1-55481-079-6 Seen Reading Julie Wilson [2012] 21.95978-1-55481-061-1 While The Sun Is Above Us Melanie Schnell [2012] 21.95 21.95 29.95
Nonfiction978-1-55 111-928-1 Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir
of Mental IllnessClem Martini and Olivier Martini
[2010] 23.95
978-1-55111-930-4 Pathologies: A Life in Essays Susan Olding [2008] 23.95 23.95 29.95978 -1 - 5 5 1 1 1 -1 1 7-9 Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s,
my mother, and meSarah Leavitt [2010] 23.95
Poetry978-1-55111-960 -1 Harmonics Jesse Ferguson [2009] 16.95 16.95 20.95978-1-55 111-85 1-2 Here Is Where We Disembark Clea Roberts [2010] 16.95 16.95 20.95978-1-55111-926 -7 It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty
Springfield PoemsJeanette Lynes [2008] 16.95 16.95 20.95
978-1-55481-104-5 Personals Ian Williams [2012] 16.95 16.95 20.95
978-1-55111-961-8 subUrban Legends Joan Crate [2009] 16.95 16.95 20.95
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