This is the twentieth edition of this nationally acclaimed anthology, which has established itself as Canada's most popular fiction anthology, presenting the best new Canadian writers from coast to coast. As well as receiving high praise every year, it is an important indicator of up-and-coming writers.

Clea Young --Breaking on the wheel / Oscar Martens -- The guiding light / Naomi K. Lewis -- Steaming for Godthab / Dana Mills -- Whale stories / Théodora Armstrong -- Goodbye porkpie hat / Mike Christie -- Chilly girl / Rebecca Rosenblum -- My Hungarian sister / Patricia Robertson -- After summer / Alice Petersen -- The gifted class / Scott Randall -- Some light down / S. Kennedy Sobol -- At last at sea / Sarah Steinberg -- The polar bear at the museum / Anna Leventhal -- My three girls / Saleema Nawaz -- About the authors -- About the contributing journals -- Previous contributing authors.