Previous volumes in this series contained stories by the following writers:   2005:   Barbara Romanik, J.M. Villaverde, Jasmina Odor 2004:   Neil Smith, Maureen Bilerman, Jaspreet Singh 2003:   Liam Durcan, Andrea Rudy, Jessica Grant 2002:   Chris Labonté, Lawrence Mathews, Kelly Cooper 2001:   J.A. McCormack, Ramona Dearing, Goran Simic 2000:   Christine Erwin, Vivette J. Kady, Timothy Taylor 1999:   Marcus Youssef, Mary Swan, John Lavery 1998:   Leona Theis, Gabriella Goliger, Darryl Whetter 1997:   Elyse Gasco, Dennis Bock, Nadine McInnis 1996:   Lewis DeSoto, Murray Logan, Kelley Aitken 1995:   Warren Cariou, Marilyn Gear Pilling, François Bonneville 1994:   Donald McNeill, Elise Levine, Lisa Moore 1993:   Gayla Reid, Hannah Grant, Barbara Parkin 1992:   Caroline Adderson, Marilyn Eisenstat, Marina Endicott 1991:   Ellen McKeough, Robert Majzels, Patricia Seaman 1990:   Peter Stockland, Sara McDonald, Steven Heighton 1989:   Brian Burke, Michelle Heinemann, Jean Rysstad 1988:   Christopher Fisher, Carol Anne Wien, Rick Hillis 1987:   Charles Foran, Patricia Bradbury, Cynthia Holz 1986:   Dayv James-French, Lesley Krueger, Rohinton Mistry 1985:   Sheila Delany, Frances Itani, Judith Pond 1984:   Diane Schoemperlen, Joan Fern Shaw, Michael Rawdon 1983:   Sharon Butala, Bonnie Burnard, Sharon Sparling 1982:   Barry Dempster, Don Dickinson, Dave Margoshes 1981:   Peter Behrens, Linda Svendsen, Ernest Hekkanen 1980:   Martin Avery, Isabel Huggan, Mike Mason   Most of these books are still available. Please inquire.

Larry Brown is fond of Hawaiian shirts; he follows the Habs and enjoys the Dave Holland Quintet. His plots grow out of character, and humour always plays a part---wonky humour with a solid core of truth behind it. Roseanne Harvey's stories come from a work in progress. "The destinies of my characters are driven by uncertainty, but they never lose their sense of wonder about the world they inhabit." Joel Katelnikoff's stories harness the power of robots, metal streets, shadow puppets, ferris wheels, video games and bijou butterflies. As a writer, he has this to say: "my goals are to kick ass and to provide masturbation fodder for readers of all sorts."

New writers who first appeared in Coming Attractions include Rohinton Mistry, Frances Itani, Peter Behrens, Lisa Moore, Dennis Bock, Diane Schoemperlen, Timothy Taylor, Bonnie Burnard, Sharon Butala, Steven Heighton, Mary Swan, Caroline Adderson, Linda Svendsen, Gayla Reid.

Roseanne Harvey currently lives in Montreal, where she is the editor of ascent magazine. Since completing her BFA at the University of Victoria, she has lived in England, Japan and a yoga ashram in southeastern BC. She has published both fiction and creative non-fiction in subTerrain, Geist, Fireweed and Goodgirl.

Larry Brown lives in Brantford, Ontario. He has attended the University of Iowa's fiction workshops and his stories have appeared in a number of magazines, including The Antigonish Review, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. He likes Hawaiian shirts, the Habs and The Dave Holland Quintet.

Joel Katelnikoff grew up in Saskatoon, received an MA in creative writing from UNB and now lives in Edmonton. He has published stories in a wide variety of literary journals. His current obsessions include line-jumpers, the 71/72 O-Pee-Chee hockey-card checklist, and the shifting pull of gravity on chrome spheres.

Mark Anthony Jarman has published two collections of stories, New Orleans Is Sinking and 19 Knives, and a travel book, Ireland's Eye. His hockey novel Salvage King Ya! is on Amazon.ca's list of 50 Essential Canadian Books, and he has won the Gold Medal at the National Magazine Awards. He is the fiction editor of Fiddlehead and teaches at UNB.

Here's a toast to the leaves of summer and to the crisp light of autumn pouring in a window, and here's a toast to the fierce pleasures of reading three crisp new writers: Joel Katelnikoff, Larry Brown and Roseanne Harvey.

The word quirky is dead from overuse, but it's a word that fits Joel Katelnikoff's utterly unique voice. This Saskabush boy, now living in Edmonton, is impressively idiosyncratic; his stories are never dull. He has been involved for years with the underground zine scene, worships Snoop Dog, and spends too much of his time observing large sweaty men wrestling each other in tiny panty-like outfits. Sometimes I think he is from some other solar system that is very similar to the one I move about in; sometimes I think he is a genius. Read him and weep.

Larry Brown, the pride of Brantford, writes stories that are jittery and tough; measured, terse prose reminiscent of American authors like Hubert Selby or Ray Carver. His characters are up to skullduggery, yet they are oddly likeable---Brown is adept at making them understandable---and there are admirable qualities of humour ("Shorts, he wanted them") and affection in his treatment of the troubled actors stalking his slightly skewed stage. He is published in many quarterlies, but Brown doesn't waste a word.

Roseanne Harvey, who has spent time in a BC ashram and now lives in Montreal, sets her stories in a Japanese theme park, a weird representation of the whole world, a Babel with southern blues singers set in wax, a Russian calliope, and an Eiffel Tower hard by the Great Wall of China---a twilight universe that is painstakingly realistic, and yet dreamlike, oppressive, haunting.

Three new writers of massive promise and talent and charm, dedicated to reinterpreting our weird world and nailing down mysteries of the psyche.

- Mark Anthony Jarman