the Review
 
Issue Number 18 - Fall 2000

Feature Interview

As is our custom with every second issue, we offer an interview this time with fiction writer Bill Gaston who teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Victoria.

 
Editorial Comment Highlights
 
It is always a surprise for us as editors when we sit down to examine the page proofs of the next issue because certain strange connections materialize.

 

What are the odds, we wondered, of accepting two stories that feature scenes of young women going for drives with their Chinese grandmothers? And just how many times does the image of an egg frying on a sidewalk actually appear in this issue? Perhaps we should make it a trivia question.
 

 

This 18th issue contains winners and runners up of our poetry contest, as well as the comments of our two hardworking judges, Barbara Colebrook Peace and Kelly Parsons. The contest was an enormous success.
 
 

     
Table of Contents
 
cover art: by Cindy Chen
fiction
 
Elissa Hintz Sidewalk Cracks
Monika Lee Dizzy
Alana Goddard Let's Just Melt
Allison Chan Dragon Water
Elissa Hintz Cold Soup
Dan Shumuk Somewhere In the Middle
Monika Lee Car Troubles
Zoë Isberg Perfect People, Perfect Days
Emily Ann Laning A Little Town Can Change . . .
Hilary Gibson-Wood Taxi
Andrew Arthur A Concerned Citizen
Melanie Piche Detour
Margaret Richardson The Sacrifice
Alana Goddard Cowboys and Indians
   
poetry  
Simon Dennis Three Writers On the Moon
Elizabeth Woodward painter
Alyssum Nielsen Memory Loss
Leah Todd The First Time
Adrienne Ho Three Poems
James Gregor Island Refuge
Leah Todd Miss Grapefruit
Katherine Siddle Genesis 1:26
Sarah Hudson Two Poems
Phoebe Prioleau Two Poems
Alex Lea Two Poems
Mike Mulley Two Poems
Alana Goddard Two Poems
Nicholas Melling Papers
Sascha Braunig Family Reunion
Devon Anderson Mother's Shadow
Jolene Milne The Last Post
Alexis Kraig The Levee
Stephanie Mansell The Seamstress
Christina Wright Limbo
Bronwen Bell Two Poems
Sharon Page Two Poems
C.Doyle Two Poems
Monika Lee Before You Forget
Dan Shumuk Porch Light
Lindsay Horlor Episodes One To Ten
   
visual arts  
Amanda Yang untitled
Marianna Yang untitled
   
miscellaneous  
Poetry Contest Winners  
Judges' Comments  
Interview With Bill Gaston  
Notes On Contributors