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WILD FIERCE LIFE Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast WILD FIERCE LIFE Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast Wild Fierce Life is a heart-stopping collection of true stories that blend life on the Pacific Coast with the life of a girl unfurling into a woman and learning how a landscape can change her. Author Joanna Streetly arrived on the west coast of Vancouver Island when she was nineteen, and soon adapted to a kind of life only a few Canadians can imagine: working on boats Wild Fierce Life of all sorts, guiding multi-day wilderness kayak trips Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast along the BC coast, and coping with remote living situations often without electricity or running water. From a near-death experience while swimming at night to an enigmatic encounter with a cougar, these stories capture the isolation of living on the continen- tal edge contrasted with the beachcomber’s delight and a sense of belonging among the ocean and the shore. Streetly’s vivid storytelling evokes a sincere re- spect for nature, both its fragility and its power. JOANNA STREETLY Spring 2018 Full of unflinching self-examination, unwavering attention to detail, and a fidelity to the landscape of Vancouver Island’s outer coast, these stories paint a 1 rich portrait not only of a remote wilderness lifestyle but also of a woman learning to cope with the unex- pected pleasures and dangers of the wild life. Joanna Streetly grew up in Trinidad and moved Joanna Streetly to Canada to study Outdoor Recreation and Wilder- ness Leadership, subsequently making her living as Non-fiction / Personal Stories Press Caitlin a naturalist guide and sea kayak instructor. In the late ISBN 13: 978-1-987915-65-5 nineties, she wrote and co-edited The Sound Maga- 5.5" x 8", 224 pages, paper zine. Most recently, her writing can be found in Best $22.95 Canadian Essays 2017 and in numerous anthologies, magazines and literary journals. Her published work Available March 15, 2018 includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This is her fourth book. She lives afloat in the Tofino harbour, with her partner, Marcel, and daughter, Toby. MEETS RURAL IMPRINT A Memoir of Trauma in the Third Generation Imprint is a profound and courageous exploration of trauma, family, and the importance of breaking silence and telling stories. This book is a fresh and startling combination of history and personal revela- tion. When her son almost died at birth and her grand- mother passed away, something inside of Claire Si- cherman snapped. Her body, which had always felt weighed down by unknown hurt, suddenly suffered from chronic health conditions, and her heart felt cleaved in two. Her grief was so large it seemed to encompass more than her own lifetime, and she be- came determined to find out why. Sicherman grew up reading Anne Frank and watch- ing Schindler’s List with almost no knowledge of the Holocaust’s impact on her specific family. Though most of her ancestors were murdered in the Holo- caust, Sicherman’s grandparents didn’t talk about Spring 2018 their trauma and her mother grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia completely unaware she was even 2 Jewish. Now a mother herself, Sicherman uses vi- gnettes, epistolary style, and other unconventional forms to explore the intergenerational transmission Claire Sicherman of trauma, about the fact that genes can be altered and carry memories, which are then passed down— a genetic imprinting. Caitlin Press Caitlin Non-fiction / Memoir/ History ISBN 13: 978-1-987915-57-0 With astounding grace and strength, Sicherman 5.5" x 8", 224 pages, paper weaves together a story that not only honours her $22.95 ancestors but offers the truth to the next generation and her now nine-year-old son. A testimony of the Available December 1, 2017 connections between mind and body, the past and the present, Imprint is devastatingly beautiful—ulti- mately a story of love and survival. Claire Sicherman is a graduate of the creative non-fiction program at The Humber School for Writers. Her work has appeared in the anthology Sustenance: Writers from B.C. and Beyond on the Subject of Food, and on Zathom.com. She lives with her husband and son on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. WHERE URBAN LOVE ME TRUE Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups and Downs of Marriage What keeps us together? What breaks us apart? In Love Me True, 27 creative nonfiction writers and 15 poets explore the enormity of marriage and com- mitted relationships and how they have challenged, shaped, supported and changed them. The stories and poems in this collection delve deep into the mysteries of long-term bonds. The authors cover a gamut of issues and ideas—everything from every- day conflicts to deep philosophical divides, as well as jealousy, adultery, physical or mental illness, and loss. There’s happiness here too, along with love and companionship, whether the long-term part- nering is monogamous, polyamorous, same-sex or otherwise. From surprise proposals, stolen quickies, and snoring to arranged marriage, affairs, suicide, and much more, the wide-ranging personal stories and poems in Love Me True are sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging as they Spring 2018 offer their intimate and varied insights into the com- plex state that is marriage. 3 Editors Jane Silcott and Fiona Tinwei Lam have as- Eds. Jane Silcott & sembled work from writers across Canada, both well- known and up-and-coming, including Kevin Chong, Fiona Tinwei Lam Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Maureen Hynes, Non-fiction Stories & Poetry / Anthology Chelene Knight, Evelyn Lau, Lauren McKeon, Monica ISBN 13: 978-1-987915-66-2 Meneghetti, Susan Musgrave, Rachel Rose, Andreas 6" x 9", 256 pages, paper Schroeder, Russell Thornton, Ayelet Tsabari, Betsy $24.95 Warland and many more. Press Caitlin Available February 5, 2018 Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored two poetry books, Jane Silcott’s Everything Rustles was short- Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver listed for the 2014 Hubert Evans Nonfiction Book Award) and Enter the Chrysanthemum and a chil- award. Her writing has appeared in several dren’s book, The Rainbow Rocket. She co-edited Dou-ble Canadian literary magazines and anthologies Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s and has been recognized by the CBC Literary University Press), and edited The Bright Well: Con- Awards (in 2005 she won second place for temporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer. Her an essay about motherhood and writing). Jane poetry and prose appear in over 30 anthologies. and is a mentor in the MFA Pro-gram in Creative internationally. She has an MFA in creative writing Nonfiction at the Univer-sity of King’s College from UBC, as well as a BA (UBC) and LLB (Queen’s) and in Halifax and Vancou-ver Manuscript Intensive. LLM (University of Toronto). She is currently is a teacher/ She has an MFA in Creative Writing from mentor at SFU Continuing Studies. UBC and a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Victoria. MEETS RURAL GYPSY FUGUE An Archetypal Memoir Who is to say that the outer stories of our lives are more important than the images that haunt our imagination? What if memoir could capture the vital pulse of our inner lives and track the mysterious af- finities and longings we so often feel? From earliest childhood Marlene Schiwy was en- thralled by colourful gypsies that filled her imagi- nation and fantasy. As a young woman she created skirts with laces, embroideries, and beadwork that expressed the darkly shimmering mystery of those gypsies and wondered why they kept appearing in her dreams. Gypsy Fugue invites readers on a journey they will never forget. The author travels to Rajasthan, the original home of the Roma. In France, she joins thou- sands of Gypsies in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer during the annual Roma gathering to honour their Spring 2018 patron Saint Sara. She embarks on her own Camino pilgrimage in Spain, birthplace of flamenco and deep 4 song, then faces her mother’s shocking, wrongful death just days after her return. The music of Bach, Marlene A. Schiwy the psychology of Jung, folktales, poetry, and alchemy keep her company as she meanders through a gypsy Non-fiction / Memoir / Spirtuality territory rich in colour, music, and dance. Running ISBN 13: 978-1-987915-59-4 Caitlin Press Caitlin through the book is the scarlet thread of Marlene’s 6" x 9", 272 pages, paper gypsy dreams. $24.95 This book celebrates fantasy, yearning, and the strange unbidden passions that lie inside our souls. Available January 18, 2018 As we explore this gypsy landscape, what opens be- fore us is a whole new way of imagining our lives. Marlene Schiwy is the author of A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey, and Simple Days: A Journal on What Really Matters. She has taught world literature and women’s studies in London and New York, and conducted writing circles and Jungian seminars in Canada, the US, and Europe for almost three decades. WHERE URBAN THE LIGHT A BODY RADIATES Eileen MacPherson is a child of eight when her be- loved sixteen-year-old brother, Francis, leaves home after a violent family episode. Over the next 25 years, everything she understands to be true changes but THE she never wavers in her yearning to understand the forces that have torn her family apart. The Light a LIGHT Body Radiates tells the story of Eileen’s passionate search for explanations in whispered fragments of A BODY conversation she overhears whenever she can slip into a room unseen. She gathers a whole storehouse RADIATES of truths and myths, including her own, that lead her to a deeper understanding of how people, who love each other deeply, can find it impossible to bridge the gulf dividing them.
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