Short Stories

Winner, 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Fiction Finalist, 2016 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeThe stories in Specimen are a unique exploration of sc...

From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we're haunted ...Teenagers philosophize on the nature of onto...

A powerful story collection that celebrates those who strive and fail and strive again.If Joseph Campbell's dictum—"follow your bliss"—has become i...

"What Is It That Makes Up a City? provides the reader with an intelligent perspective on the strange culture of our times and a series of adventure...

Winner of the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award for Most Underrated Canadian Book "These stories read like collaborations between Stephen King and T...

The A List edition of Leo McKay’s superb collection. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Like This takes you inside small-town Nova Scotia...

Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks out the precious moments of her characters' lives against deceptively co...

In this collection which contains both autobiography and fiction, the prominent Estonian artist and writer Toomas Vint, whose career spans the Sovi...

David Rabe, the Tony award-winning playwright of Hurlyburly and In the Boom Boom Room, brings his intense vision to the world of fiction, with a sh...

A New York Times Editors’ Choice“The spirit of Eudora Welty broods over these adroitly crafted stories set in and around coastal Alabama, evoking a...

In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. W...

An extraordinary collection of dynamic stories by an exciting new voice in American fiction, Gigantic features ten powerful stories of emotional st...

These stories take the reader on journeys realist and absurd, meta-fictional and post-modern. Motel Girl is peopled by the colorful, the transcende...

A family seated round the fireplace Singing and making merry; A sprightly waltz played with grace Noche Buena brings us all the magic of the C...

A family seated round the fireplace Singing and making merry; A sprightly waltz played with grace Noche Buena brings us all the magic of the C...

With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing o...

Jim Harrison's vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His latest highly acclaimed volum...

The fifty-six Coyote Tales in this book -- delightfully illustrated by the author -- are lively, funny, profound, sometimes sad, and always wise. P...

In stories of astonishing compression and insight, Mavis Gallant wrote of characters severed from their home, exiles disconnected from each other a...

From a writer Steve Almond calls "the master of the down and out that just got worse" comes a collection of stories that live vividly in the reader...

The stories in A Near-Perfect Gift revolve around the often hardscrabble small-town life in one rural village. Like any other community inhabited b...

The Sisyphean characters in The Problem You Have may not be pushing a giant rock up a hill, but they are unlikely to ever get where they are going....

England’s historic counties are overflowing with folklore, and this collection of 39 stories from the hit podcast Three Ravens reimagines dozens of...

“Richard Wiley is one of our best writers. These stories satisfy in the way that brilliant short fiction always satisfies; one feels as if one has ...

To celebrate the author Peter Lovesey, Allison & Busby are delighted to publish a collection of his best stories, featuring his famous characte...

As income inequality soars, as industries become further mechanized, as the populace cries out for some semblance of a social safety net and corpor...