Stolen Voices/Vacant Rooms
- Publisher
- Anvil Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1994
- Category
- Literary, Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895636062
- Publish Date
- Jan 1994
- List Price
- $9
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Description
First-ever Joint Winners of the 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest (1993)
This feat represents the first and only shared prize of publication for the 3-Day Novel Contest. One, a nightmarish vision of a land in decline, the other, a finely crafted tale of family history and the effects of the past on the present, rich in mood and evocative in its language.
Praise for Stolen Voices:
"Alcohol, drugs, hormones conjured by passion-bubbled blood, all pave a hallucinogenic path . . . through thunderstorms within the skull." (Prairie Fire)
Praise for Vacant Rooms:
"Graceful, almost poetic reminiscence." (Prairie Fire)
About the authors
Steve Lundin grew up playing goal in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of two short story collections, A Ruin of Feathers and Revolvo and Other Canadian Tales, and the novel This River Awakens, and is a past winner of the Three-Day Novel Contest (Stolen Voices, Anvil Press). After a brief stint in England, where he earned international acclaim for his Malazan Book of the Fallen series under the name Steven Erikson, he returned to his hometown with his wife and son to launch the novel When She's Gone. They now reside in Victoria, BC.
Born in Etobicoke, ON, Mitchell Parry spent part of his childhood in Manchester, England. He obtained a Masters of Arts from the University of Western Ontario in English Literature and Film Studies. He has been an ESL teacher and an arts administrator and has worked in film production in Calgary and Montreal. Parry is a frequent contributor to The Malahat Review and has written many reviews and articles. His own poems have appeared in literary journals such as The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, Event and The Malahat Review. He won The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest in 2002 and Pottersfield Portfolio's Sixth Annual Compact Poetry Competition in 2001. Mitchell Parry currently divides his time between Victoria, where he teaches film studies at the University of Victoria, and Pender Island where he lives with his partner, poet Marlene Cookshaw.