Tightrope Books is a Canadian independent book publisher based in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario, Canada.

Founded in 2005 by Halli Villegas, Tightrope Books publishes mainly poetry and fiction, as well as non-fiction and anthologies. As a "writer-centric press," Tightrope Books involves its authors and poets in the publishing process. According to Villegas, Tightrope Books “prides itself on introducing readers to writers who are a little bit out there,” working with both new and established authors who are open to experimentation.

Tightrope Books is represented by the Literary Press Group of Canada.

Annual Publications

Among the publications are the annual anthologies, Best Canadian Poetry in English and Best Canadian Essays. For both series, the series and guest editors collaborate and choose the best poems and essays by Canadians published in the preceding year from online and print Canadian literary journals.

The idea for the anthologies sprung from The Best American Poetry

The Best American Poetry

The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...

Series created by David Lehman

David Lehman

David Lehman is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School in New York City.-Career:...

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Best Canadian Poetry in English

Year	Guest Editor	Series Editor
2011	Priscila Uppal	Molly Peacock Molly Peacock Molly Peacock is an American-Canadian poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer. She is an alumna of Binghamton University.-Career:...
2010	Lorna Crozier Lorna Crozier Lorna Crozier is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria....	Molly Peacock
2009	A.F. Moritz	Molly Peacock
2008	Stephanie Bolster Stephanie Bolster Stephanie Bolster is a Canadian poet who lives in Montreal, Quebec, and is a professor of creative writing at Concordia University. She was at one point a writer in residence at York House School.-Awards:...	Molly Peacock

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008

Editors: Stephanie Bolster and Molly Peacock

Writers: Maleea Acker, James Arthur, Leanne Averbach, Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison, OC was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. "Her work has often been praised for the beauty of its language and images."-Life:...

, Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock is a Canadian poet. He was born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley. Babstock began publishing his poems in journals and anthologies, winning gold at the 1997 Canadian National Magazine Awards...

, John Wall Barger, Brian Bartlett, John Barton

John Barton (poet)

-Life:John Barton was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1957 but was raised in Calgary. He studied at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Quebec, Victoria University, and Columbia University in New York....

, Yvonne Blomer, Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling is a Canadian poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta...

, Heather Cadsby, Anne Compton

Anne Compton

-Biography:Compton was born and raised in the farming community of Bangor, Prince Edward Island. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Prince Edward Island, her Masters from York University and finally her PhD from the University of New Brunswick. Dr...

, Kevin Connolly

Kevin Connolly (writer)

-Biography:Kevin Connolly is a Canadian poet, free-lance editor and critic who was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and grew up in Maple, Ontario. Connolly has served as an editor for presses such as ECW Press, House of Anansi Press and Coach House Press...

, Meira Cook, Dani Couture

Dani couture

Danielle Couture is a Canadian writer.Couture was born on a military base to a Francophone father and an Anglophone mother, both of whom were enlisted in the Canadian Forces. She has lived in ten cities, including North Bay, Vancouver, Windsor and Taichung, Taiwan...

, Sadiqa de Meijer, Barry Dempster

Barry Dempster

Barry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet and novelist.Dempster was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario.Two of his collections, Fables For Isolated Men and The Burning Alphabet , were nominated for Governor General's Awards...

, Jeramy Dodds

Jeramy Dodds

Jeramy Dodds is a Canadian poet.Born in Ajax, Ontario, Dodds grew up in Orono, Ontario. He studied English Literature and Anthropology at Trent University, Medieval Icelandic Studies at The University of Iceland, and has worked as a research archaeologist in Canada...

, Jeffery Donaldson

Jeffery Donaldson

Jeffery Donaldson is a Canadian poet and critic.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Donaldson was educated at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing in the English Department at McMaster University. He lives on the Niagara Escarpment near...

, Susan Elmslie, Jason Guriel

Jason Guriel

-External links:* Poetry Foundation essay by Jason Guriel* Poetry Foundation essay by Jason Guriel* The New Criterion essay by Jason Guriel-References:...

, Aurian Haller, Jason Heroux, Iain Higgins, Bill Howell, Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys is a Canadian poet and novelist who has written several books. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. When she was younger she was kicked out of high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education...

, Amanda Lamarche, Tim Lilburn

Tim Lilburn

Tim Lilburn is a Canadian poet and essayist. He is the author of several critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including Kill-site, To the River, Moosewood Sandhills and his latest work Going Home...

, Michael Lista

Michael Lista

Michael Lista is a Canadian poet. He is the author of Bloom, a book of poems about Canadian Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin...

, Keith Maillard

Keith Maillard

Keith Maillard is a fiction author and poet.Maillard has lived in various places in the United States and Canada.He attended West Virginia University and was host of a Boston campus radio programme.He moved to Canada in 1970, attaining citizenship in 1976.In the early 1970s, Maillard worked as a...

, Don McKay

Don McKay

Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...

, A.F. Moritz, Jim Nason, Peter Norman, Alison Pick

Alison Pick

Alison Pick is a Canadian novelist and poet. She has published two novels and two collections of poetry.Pick was born in 1975 in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Kitchener. In 1999 she graduated from the University of Guelph with a B.A...

, E. Alex Pierce, Craig Poile, Matt Rader, Michael Eden Reynolds, Shane Rhodes

Shane Rhodes

-Life:He graduated from the University of New Brunswick.He lives in Ottawa, Canada.As the 2008 winner of the Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry, Shane Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre, according to a 2008 report...

, Joy Russell, Heather Sellers, David Seymour, J. Mark Smith, Adam Sol

Adam Sol

-Awards:* 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry*2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Shortlist-Works:* "The Museum of Sound", published in The Walrus*-External links:******...

, Carmine Starnino

Carmine Starnino

Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator, and editor.He was born in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian heritage. His first poetry collection The New World was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award...

, Anna Swanson

Anna Swanson

Anna Swanson is a Canadian poet.In May 2011, Swanson received a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry for her debut poetry collection, The Nights Also. In June, she received the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry.-External Links:*...

, Todd Swift

Todd Swift

Todd Swift is a Canadian poet, editor, cultural activist and university lecturer based in the United Kingdom.Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Saint-Lambert, Quebec. He received a B.A. in English from Concordia University and an M.A...

, J.R. Toriseva, and Leif E. Vaage.
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009

Editors: A.F. Moritz and Molly Peacock

Writers: Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

, Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison, OC was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. "Her work has often been praised for the beauty of its language and images."-Life:...

, Ken Babstock, Shirley Bear, Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling is a Canadian poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta...

, Asa Boxer, Anne Compton

Anne Compton

-Biography:Compton was born and raised in the farming community of Bangor, Prince Edward Island. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Prince Edward Island, her Masters from York University and finally her PhD from the University of New Brunswick. Dr...

, Jan Conn

Jan Conn

Jan E. Conn is a Canadian geneticist and poet. She resides in Great Barrington, Massachusetts where she does research on mosquito genetics at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York. She has also written six books of...

, Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria....

, Barry Dempster, Don Domanski

Don Domanski

Don Rusu Domanski is a Canadian poet who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czechoslovakian, Portuguese, and Spanish...

, John Donlan, Tyler Enfield, Jesse Ferguson, Connie Fife, Adam Getty, Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of ten books, including two short story collections, three novels, and five poetry collections...

, Michael Johnson, Sonnet L'Abbe

Sonnet L'Abbé

Sonnet L'Abbé is a Canadian poet and critic. As a poet, L'Abbé writes about national identity, race, gender and language. She has been shortlisted for the 2010 CBC Literary Award for poetry and has won the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer under 35.As a critic, she is a...

, Anita Lahey, M. Travis Lane

M. Travis Lane

Millicent Travis Lane is an American-Canadian poet.She was born in San Antonio, Texas, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Cornell University.She was married to Lauriat Lane Jr. Millicent Travis Lane (née Travis) (born...

, Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau

- Biography :Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Chinese-Canadian parents, who intended for her to eventually become a doctor. Her parents' ambitions for her were wholly irreconcilable with her own; consequently, her home and school lives were desperately unhappy...

, Richard Lemm, Dave Margoshes, Don McKay, Eric Miller, Shane Neilson, Peter Norman, David O'Meara

David O'Meara

-Life:He was raised in Pembroke, Ontario. He lives in Sandy Hill, Ottawa, where he tends bar at The Manx Pub.-Awards:* Gerald Lampert Award, for Storm Still* 2004 Lampman-Scott Award, for The Vicinity-Poetry:*-Reviews:...

, P.K. Page, Elise Partridge, Elizabeth Philips, Meredith Quartermain, Matt Rader, John Reibetanz, Robyn Sarah, Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian born, former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a former diplomat and a poet....

, Cora Sire, Karen Solie

Karen Solie

Karen Solie is a Canadian poet.Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an academic research assistant, and an English teacher...

, Carmine Starnino, John Steffler

John Steffler

-Biography:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Steffler was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. Since 1975 he has lived in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador where he taught at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College...

, Ricardo Sternberg

Ricardo Sternberg

Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg is a Canadian poet.Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sternberg moved to the United States with his family when he was fifteen. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from...

, John Terpstra

John Terpstra

John Terpstra is a Canadian poet and carpenter.During much of his childhood, he lived in Edmonton, Alberta, but moved back to Ontario to attend high school in Hamilton, where he lives today.-Awards and recognition:...

, Sharon Thesen

Sharon Thesen

Sharon Thesen is a Canadian poet who lives in Lake Country, British Columbia. She teaches at UBC-O.In 2003, Thesen was a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize.-Bibliography:*Artemis Hates Romance - 1980...

, Matthew Tierney

Matthew Tierney

Matthew F. Tierney is a Canadian poet.After originally studying in the sciences and dabbling in the theatre, Tierney received a B.A. in English from the University of Toronto and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick...

, Patrick Warner, Tom Wayman

Tom Wayman

Thomas Ethan Wayman is a Canadian poet and academic.Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in British Columbia. He studied at the University of British Columbia, Colorado State University, and the University of California, Irvine.Wayman has received the Canadian Authors...

, Patricia Young, Changming Yuan, and Jan Zwicky

Jan Zwicky

Jan Zwicky is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician.She received her B.A. from the University of Calgary and earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1981 where her studies focussed on the philosophy of logic and science...

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The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010

Editors: Lorna Crozier and Molly Peacock

Writers: Ken Babstock, John Barton, Anne Compton, Allan Cooper, Mary Dalton

Mary Dalton

Mary Dalton is a Canadian poet and educator. She is currently a Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's. She was born at Lake View, Conception Bay, Newfoundland in the 1950s....

, Barry Dempster, Kildare Dobbs

Kildare Dobbs

Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs, is a Canadian short story and travel writer.Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, he was educated in Ireland and later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. After the war he worked in the British Colonial Service in Tanganyka...

, Don Domanski, Glen Downie, Sue Goyette

Susan Goyette

Susan Goyette is a Canadian poet and novelist.Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Goyette grew up in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, on Montreal's south shore....

, Rosemary Griebel, Adrienne Gruber, Jamella Hagen, Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of ten books, including two short story collections, three novels, and five poetry collections...

, Warren Heiti, M.G.R. Hickman-Barr, Maureen Hynes, Michael Johnson, Jim Johnstone

Jim Johnstone

Jim Johnstone is a reproductive physiologist and Canadian poet. He was born in Stouffville, Ontario and is the author of three collections of poetry: Sunday, the locusts , Patternicity and The Velocity of Escape .Johnstone's work has received numerous awards including Arc Poetry...

, Sonnet L'Abbe, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Evelyn Lau, Katherine Lawrence, Ross Leckie, Tim Lilburn, Dave Margoshes, Jim Nason, Catherine Owen, P.K. Page, Rebecca Leah Papucaru, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Lenore and Beth Rowntree, Armand Garnet Ruffo

Armand Garnet Ruffo

Armand Garnet Ruffo is a Canadian poet.-Life:He graduated from the University of Ottawa, and the University of Windsor and is a member of the Ojibwe nation.He teaches at the Carleton University....

, Lori Saint-Martin, Peter Sanger

Peter Sanger

Peter Sanger is a Canadian poet and prose writer. Sanger, who is also described as a critic and an editor, was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1953. He was educated at the University of Melbourne, University of Victoria, and Acadia University...

, Robyn Sarah, Eleonore Schönmaier

Eleonore Schönmaier

- Career :Eleonore Schönmaier was born in Red Lake, Ontario and raised in the nearby community of Madsen. She earned her undergraduate degree at Queen's University, as well as her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia....

, David Seymour, Melanie Siebert

Melanie Siebert

Melanie Siebert is a Canadian poet. Her first book Deepwater Vee is a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.Siebert has an MFA from the University of Victoria.-References:...

, Sue Sinclair

Sue Sinclair

Sue Sinclair is a Canadian poet. She was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador,Carey, Barbara . , Toronto Star and studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, graduated in 1994 and then continued her education at the University of New Brunswick...

, Karen Solie, Nick Thran, Carey Toane, Anne-Marie Turza, Paul Tyler, Patrick Warner, Zachariah Wells

Zachariah Wells

Zachariah Wells is a Canadian poet, critic, essayist and editor.Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, he grew up in the rural community of Hazel Grove. Wells attended high school in Ottawa, Ontario and university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As an undergraduate, he spent summers working in...

, Patricia Young, David Zieroth

David Zieroth

David Dale Zieroth is a Canadian poet. He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999 for How I Joined Humanity at Last, and the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 2009 for The Fly in Autumn.-Works:*Clearing: Poems from a Journey *Mid-River *When the Stones Fly Up *The Weight...

, and Jan Zwicky.
Sources of Poems
2008:

• PRISM international
  PRISM international
  PRISM international is a magazine published quarterly in Vancouver, British Columbia. Established in 1959, it is Western Canada's senior literary magazine...
  
  
• Brick
• Contemporary Verse 2
  Contemporary Verse 2
  Contemporary Verse 2 is a Canadian magazine which focuses on the art of poetry as well as Contemporary poets and the issues. CV2 also publishes essays, interviews, articles and reviews regarding various poetic works...
  
  
• Matrix
• The Malahat Review
  The Malahat Review
  The Malahat Review is a Canadian quarterly literary magazine established in 1967. It features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian literature...
  
  
• Event
• Descant
• The Fiddlehead
  The Fiddlehead
  The Fiddlehead is a Canadian literary magazine, published four times annually at the University of New Brunswick.The journal was established in 1945 by Alfred Bailey as an in-house publication for the Bliss Carman Poetry Society; it was converted into a general literary magazine in 1952...
  
  
• Maisonneuve
  Maisonneuve (magazine)
  Maisonneuve is a general interest magazine based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It publishes eclectic stories of national and international scope on the arts, culture and politics. Established in 2002 by Derek Webster, the magazine is named after Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, the founder of Montreal...
  
  
• enRoute
• This Magazine
  This Magazine
  This Magazine is an independent alternative Canadian political magazine. It was launched "by a gang of school activists" in 1966 as This Magazine is About Schools, a journal covering political issues in the education system...
  
  
• Arc
• Antigonish Review
• Exile
• Canadian Literature
  Canadian literature
  Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
  
  
• Prairie Fire
  Prairie Fire (magazine)
  Prairie Fire is a Canadian literary magazine. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the magazine publishes as a quarterly. Prairie Fire magazine was created in hopes to expand Canadians' knowledge and awareness of literary work rather than focusing on mainstream writings of our generation. Included in the...
  
  
• Border Crossings
  Border Crossings (magazine)
  Border Crossings is a magazine published quarterly from Manitoba, Canada. It investigates contemporary Canadian and International art and culture. The editor, Meeka Walsh, specializes in rarefied articles and interviews about contemporary Canadian and international art and culture...
  
  
• Grain
• Literary Review of Canada
  Literary Review of Canada
  The Literary Review of Canada is a Canadian magazine that publishes ten times a year. The magazine publishes essays and reviews of books on political, cultural and social topics, as well as Canadian poetry...
  
  
• The Capilano Review
• Room
• Vallum

2009:

• Descant
• Brick
• The Fiddlehead
• West Coast LINE
• Arc
• Literary Review of Canada
• Maisonneuve
• Vallum
• Canadian Literature
• Prairie Fire
• Event
• Grain
• The Dalhousie Review
  The dalhousie review
  The Dalhousie Review is a Canadian literary magazine, founded in 1921 and associated with Dalhousie University. It publishes three times a year, in the spring, summer, and fall. Content includes fiction, poetry, literary essays and book reviews.-History:...
  
  
• Hammered Out
• The New Quarterly
• Queen's Quarterly
• The Antigonish Review
• subTerrain
• The Malahat Review
• This Magazine
• The Walrus
  The Walrus
  The Walrus is a Canadian general interest magazine which publishes long form journalism on Canadian and international affairs, along with fiction and poetry by Canadian writers. It launched in September 2003, as an attempt to create a Canadian equivalent to American magazines such as Harper's, The...
  
  
• The Capilano Review
• The Nashwaak Review

2010:

• Literary Review of Canada
• Arc
• Riddle Fence
• Studio
• The Malahat Review
• Prairie Fire
• Exile
• enRoute
• Event
• The Walrus
• Grain
• The New Quarterly
• The Fiddlehead
• PRISM international
• Room
• Queen's Quarterly
• The Dalhousie Review
• Existere
  Existere
  Existere - Journal of Arts & Literature is a Canadian magazine, that publishes twice a year at York University's Vanier College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
  
  
• Descant
• Geist
  Geist (magazine)
  Geist is Canada's most widely read literary magazine. Geist is published four times a year in Vancouver since 1990. The magazine takes its name from the German word geist, meaning "mind" or "spirit."...
  
  
• The Antigonish Review
• Brick
• This Magazine
• Canadian Notes & Queries
  Canadian Notes & Queries
  Canadian Notes & Queries was first published in 1968 by William Morley as a four page supplement to the Abacus, the newsletter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada...
  
  
• Contemporary Verse 2

Best Canadian Essays

Year	Guest Editor	Series Editor
2011	Ibi Kaslik Ibi Kaslik Ibolya "Ibi" Kaslik is a Hungarian-Canadian novelist, freelance journalist, and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto.-Early life:Kaslik attended high school at Etobicoke School of the Arts...	Christopher Doda
2010	Kamal Al-Solaylee	Alex Boyd Alex Boyd (author) Alex Boyd is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor, and critic.His essays and articles have appeared in the Globe and Mail, and elsewhere...
2009	Carmine Starnino Carmine Starnino Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator, and editor.He was born in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian heritage. His first poetry collection The New World was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award...	Alex Boyd

The Best Canadian Essays 2009

Editor: Alex Boyd and Carmine Starnino

Writers: Kamal Al-Solaylee, Katherine Ashenburg, Kris Demeanor, Jessa Gamble, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Chris Koentges, Anita Lahey, Alison Lee, Nick Mount, Denis Seguin, Chris Turner

Chris Turner (author)

Chris Turner is a Canadian author. He is the author of Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation, published in 2004...

, Lori Theresa Waller, Nathan Whitlock, and Chris Wood.
The Best Canadian Essays 2010

Editors: Alex Boyd and Kamal Al-Solaylee

Writers: Katherine Ashenburg, Ira Basen

Ira Basen

Ira Basen is a Canadian radio producer, who has been associated with CBC Radio since 1984. He has been associated with the programs Sunday Morning, Quirks and Quarks, The Inside Track and This Morning, and has written for Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail.-Life:He graduated from Carleton...

, Will Braun, Tyee Bridge, Abou Farman, Paul Gallant, Lisa Gregoire, Danielle Groen, Elizabeth Hay

Elizabeth Hay

Elizabeth Hay may refer to:*Elizabeth Hay , Canadian*Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington , née Lady Elizabeth Hay, British peer*Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll , wife to William Hay...

, Jason McBride, Carolyn Morris, Katharine Sandiford, Andrew Steinmetz, Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor (writer)

Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011....

, Chris Turner, and Nora Underwood.

Sources of Essays
2009:

• Canadian Notes & Queries
• Toronto Life
  Toronto Life
  Toronto Life is a monthly Canadian magazine about entertainment, politics and life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Toronto Life also publishes a number of annual special interest guides about the city, including Home Decor, Stylebook, Eating & Drinking, Real Estate and Weddings. Established in 1966,...
  
  
• Unlimited
• Up Here
• Swerve
• Maisonneuve
• This Magazine
• Queen's Quarterly
• The Walrus
• Alberta Views
  Alberta Views
  Alberta Views is a general interest magazine published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that covers political, social and cultural issues in the province of Alberta. Its monthly circulation is 20,000 copies. Alberta Views was named Canadian Magazine of the Year at the 2009...
  
  
• Briarpatch Magazine
  Briarpatch
  Briarpatch is an independent alternative news magazine based in Saskatchewan, Canada and distributed across Canada.Launched in 1973 as an anti-poverty newsletter published by the Saskatchewan Coalition of Anti-Poverty Organizations, the magazine's founding mission was "to provide a forum for...
  
  

2010:

• Vancouver Magazine
  Vancouver Magazine
  Vancouver Magazine is an English-language lifestyle magazine focused on Vancouver, British Columbia and the Lower Mainland.Vancouver Magazine describes its mission as informing, guiding and entertaining residents of a "dynamic, international city."...
  
  
• Maisonneuve
• Geez
• Swerve
• This Magazine
• Canadian Geographic
  Canadian Geographic
  Canadian Geographic is the bimonthly magazine of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society . It was first published in May 1930 under the name Canadian Geographical Journal. The society's objective was to produce a popular magazine dealing primarily with Canadian geography...
  
  
• Chatelaine
  Chatelaine (magazine)
  Chatelaine is an English-language Canadian magazine of women's lifestyles. Both Chatelaine and its French-language version, Châtelaine, are published monthly by Rogers Media, Inc., a division of Rogers Communications, Inc...
  
  
• New Quarterly
• Toronto Life
• Up Here
• Queen's Quarterly
• The Walrus
• Alberta Views

Other Titles

• Fortune Cookie by Heather J. Wood
• In the Dark Stories From The Supernatural edited by Myna Wallin and Halli Villegas
• The Stone Skippers by Ian Burgham
• She's Shameless edited by Stacey May Fowles and Megan Griffith-Greene
• GULCH edited by Sarah Beaudin, Karen Correia Da Silva, and Curran Folkers
• The Girl on the Escalator by Jim Nason
• Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar by Myna Wallin
• A Thousand Profane Pieces by Myna Wallin
• Onion Man by Kathryn Mockler

Recognition

The Nights Also (2010) by Anna Swanson

Anna Swanson

Anna Swanson is a Canadian poet.In May 2011, Swanson received a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry for her debut poetry collection, The Nights Also. In June, she received the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry.-External Links:*...

 was awarded the 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...

 for Lesbian Poetry. It made the 2011 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

Gerald Lampert Award

The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert...

 shortlist.

Wrong Bar (2009) by Nathaniel G. Moore made the 2010 ReLit Award novel shortlist.