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spring 2019 poetry Moon Was a Feather Scott Nolan volving from a routine of long walks he began to help him quit smoking, EWinnipeg singer, songwriter and musician Scott Nolan’s debut poetry collection Moon Was a Feather reflects on a life well-considered. Poems that chronicle a difficult youth, experience with drugs, friendships, and music are interwoven with insights gleaned from the eclectic jumble of neighbourhoods and people he encounters on his long walks. Spare—eloquent with a healthy dose of grit—the poems of Moon Was a Feather are infused with the poet’s deep appreciation for the eccentricities of fate that life throws at him, and the love for music that helps him make sense of them. Scott Nolan is a songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist from Winnipeg, Manitoba Treaty One territory, with nine albums to his credit. His songs have been recorded by Hayes Carll, Mary Gauthier, Watermelon Slim, and Corin Raymond, among new releases others. Long an avid reader of poetry, Nolan turned to writing it in 2015, when he started walking ten kilometres a day in his quest to quit smoking. Nolan discovered melodies and rhythms in the shuffling of his feet, and began writing short poems inspired by reflections on his own difficult past, as well as about people and places in his neighbourhood. ISBN 978-1-927922-51-4 • POE011000 80pp 5.5×8.5in • $15.95 pb (CaN & US) • aPrIl 2019 drama With Glowing Hearts Jennifer Wynne Webber hen the “Kirkland Lake gals of 1941” begin to share their story with a present- Wday audience, a siren sounds and they soon find themselves pulled right back into the fateful winter of 1941–42. There, they gather again at the mine-head, waiting for word on the men trapped underground, as their fear and rage builds. When the husband of one of the women is badly injured, their desire to help her quickly leads them into a much larger campaign to help all the families they can. Before long, they’ve become the heart and soul of a large-scale union-organizing drive that is fuelled by their sheer will—and sometimes giddy enthusiasm—but that is also put to the test by their own inexperience, a bitter strike, and the brutal force of the powers that be. “Your heart will glow with pride in our history and fill with hope for our future... Go celebrate this true story and leave inspired and challenged.” —Barb Byers, Member of the Order of Canada, former Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress “A stirring underdog story.” —Saskatoon Star-Phoenix Born in Ottawa, Jennifer Wynne Webber spent most of her early years in Saskatoon. She has also lived and worked in Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, and, most recently, on Vancouver Island. Jennifer is the author of numerous plays including Beside Myself, also published by Scirocco Drama, and White Lies, published in the online literary journal Ryga: A Journal of Provocations. Her novel, Defying Gravity, was published by Coteau Books and nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards including Book of the Year. Jennifer has taught writing, worked as a dramaturge and as a professional actor at theatres across Canada. She has also worked extensively in broadcast journalism and video production. ISBN 978-1-927922-49-1 • DRA013000 • 4F, doubling 80pp 5.5×8.5in • $15.95 pb (CaN & US) • aPrIl 2019 2 spring 2019 drama THE NAILS Jason Maghanoy new releases lly and Josh spend every summer with their father as he goes from small Atown to small town, working for a construction company in America. But this summer is different. This is the summer they grow up. The Nails is a play about family. It is a play about faith. And it captures a world of freedom and extremism in all directions; love and cruelty exist within the same space here. And sometimes they feel like the same thing. “It’s the beauty of the unbreakable bond between a teenage brother and sister that makes this drama so remarkable.” —NOW Magazine Jason Maghanoy is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, has been a member of the Banff Playwrights Colony, and was a finalist for the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Fellowship at Juilliard. He has been a member of the Tarragon Playwrights Unit, Playwright-In-Residence at Theatre Passe Muraille, and Playwright-In-Residence at Young Peoples Theatre. His plays include Throat, Heart, The Corner, and Gas and Dust, which were published in a double volume by Scirocco Drama. Most recently, Jason was the playwright-in-residence at fu-GEN, and a member of the 2017 Stratford Playwrights Retreat. ISBN 978-1-927922-48-4 • Dra013000 • 2F, 3M 80pp 5.5×8.5in • $15.95 pb (CaN & US) • aPrIl 2019 drama THE FIGHTING SEASON Sean Harris Oliver ean Harris Oliver’s The Fighting Season is a searing investigation into the Afghan SWar through the eyes of a Canadian field medic (Kristy), an OR surgeon (Terry), and a recovery room nurse (Karine). When all three medical professionals experience a life-changing event in the operating room of the NATO-controlled Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield, they are sent back to Canada for further evaluation. Through Kristy, Terry and Karine’s interwoven monologues we begin to understand the contribution that Canada’s medical teams made in Afghanistan, as well as the devastating impact that war has on the ones charged with saving lives. The Fighting Season was nominated for the 2017 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding New Script. “The Fighting Season is devastating…Oliver builds an empathy with realistic characters who are at times harrowing, horrific and heroic.” —Vancouver Presents “Visceral and moving, The Fighting Season shines as a fascinating study of war medics.” —The Review Weekly Sean Harris Oliver is a Canadian playwright, director, performer and filmmaker. His work has appeared throughout Canada and the US in a variety of arts festivals, public readings and theatre productions. Since 2010 Sean has written, performed and directed plays with Hardline Productions, a Vancouver-based theatre production company that he co-founded with Raes Calvert and Genevieve Fleming. Sean’s other theatre scripts include: Eight Seconds, Bright Blue Future, Redpatch, and The Soldier’s Wife. Sean is a graduate of Studio 58, and an avid beer-league softball player. The Fighting Season was inspired by his father’s deployment in Afghanistan. ISBN 978-1-927922-50-7 • Dra013000 • 1F, 2M 80pp 5.5×8.5in • $15.95 pb (CaN & US) • aPrIl 2019 spring 2019 33 drama HONOUR BEAT Tara Beagan wo grown sisters face off over their mother’s death-bed. Together they Tconfront one another, their own identities, and what will remain when their mom leaves this world. A contemporary look at the significance of faith and family, Honour Beat explores the stories this Indigenous family has told itself through the years, as their mother’s youthful spirit leads them toward forgiveness. “Honour Beat is an important work of art… It celebrates—honours—women as the givers and sustainers of life… The ending is extraordinary.” —The Globe and Mail “…a universal appeal despite its specific Indigenous roots…The final uplifting, spiritual moments of Honour Beat will linger with you long after you’ve left the theatre…the richness of story itself and the beautiful sentiments at the heart of the play.” —Calgary Herald new releases Born in Niitsitapi country, Tara Beagan is a proud Ntlaka’pamux and Irish “Canadian” halfbreed. She has written more than twenty plays, and also directs and performs. Currently, she co-helms ARTICLE 11 with her most cherished collaborator, favourite artist and true love, Andy Moro. ARTICLE 11, now based in Mohkintsis, has brought Indigenous Activist art works to the NAC, the ROM, Kingcome Inlet, Kamloops, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary’s City Hall, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Wellington, Aotearoa (NZ). ISBN 978-1-927922-47-7 • Dra013000 • 3F, 1M 80pp 5.5×8.5in • $15.95 pb (CaN & US) • aPrIl 2019 The Long and Better Angels: the Short of It A Parable and Eating Members of the PTE Pomegranates Playwrights Unit, Naked Edited by Brian Drader he Long and the Short of It, an Andrea Scott Tanthology of short plays by n Better Angels: A Parable, Akosua writers from the Prairie Theatre IMansa leaves Ghana to work for Exchange Playwrights Unit, Greg and Leila Tate in the tony conjures up a landscape filled with suburbs of a metropolitan city. But she aspiring filmmakers, bickering soon finds herself in an impossible drama couples, junior chess players, street corner memoirists, and situation: like more than forty million people, she’s become mendacious pie bakers, amongst others. trapped in modern-day slavery. Taking cues from the spider A compendium of Manitoba comedy, drama, and god, Anansi, Akosua will take her destiny into her own hands. everything in between, The Long and the Short of It provides Eating Pomegranates Naked examines two couples and a showcase for some of the province’s finest theatre writers. their single frenemy as they scratch the surface of their This sampler of epigrammatic plays was curated by Brian relationships over too much wine. What do infertility, religion, Drader and includes work by Alix Sobler, Ellen Peterson, toxoplasmosis, and ice cream have to do with Tulipmania? Deb Patterson, Jason Neufeld, James Durham, Trish Cooper, Maybe more than you think. Ginny Collins, Rick Chafe, Sharon Bajer, and Joseph Aragon. 978-1-927922-46-0 • 2F/1M; 3F/2M 978-1-927922-42-2 152pp 5.5×8.5IN • $15.95 pb (Can & US) 160pp 5.5×8.5in • $15.95 pb (CaN & US) 4 spring 2019 The Right Road Janet Wilson to Pontypool Meets Alex Poch-Goldin the Queen oishe Yukle Bernstein was a poor Beverley Cooper Mpedlar who bought land near anet Wilson Meets the Queen begins Pontypool, Ontario, a tiny Protestant Jin Vancouver, 1969, as society is drama town outside Toronto.

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