À l’envers des images escarpées: 8 nouvelles précédées d’un essai.
Montréal: Oblique éditrices, 1987.
(111p.; ISBN 2980059803)
Contents: Que veut dire lesbianisme en littérature? / Danielle Charest and
Christiane Tremblay -- Nuit / Guylaine Bisaillon -- Un espace blanc /
Christiane Tremblay -- Une fois de trop-- / Danielle Chagnon -- Piscine
intérieure non mixte / Maryse Pellerin -- Images pour deux voix /
Lorraine Gagné -- All the world’s a stage / Denise Blais -- Le passe-temps /
Louise Malette -- Les repas / Josée Huot.
Information derived from AMICUS catalogue.
Ann, Kathryn, 1950-
Snakes and Ladders: Stories. Ottawa, Ont.: Impertinent Press, c1993.
(132 p.: ISBN 189534901X)
Babineau, Guy.
Channel Surfing in
the
(151 p.; ISBN 1896356214)
Eight short stories, set largely in Toronto and Vancouver; pre-publication
review: Quill & Quire, Dec. 1998, p. 32; see also description on Gutter
Press website at www.gutterpress.com , last accessed late 2000.
Baker, Brenda.
The Maleness of God. Regina, Sask: Coteau Books, 1999.
(ISBN 1550501585)
“In the title story, a Christian mother comes to realize that she loves her
gay son more than she loves her husband and his vengeful God” –
for Sexual Diversity,” accessed July 8, 2004.
Barker, Edna, 1952-
Coming Out. East York, Ontario: Eastbound Books, c2002.
(30 p.; ISBN 0973173327)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 27979533, which notes that
“[t]he story was originally published in The Body Politic, issue #105,
July/August 1984.” Compiler does not know if this is fictional, but has
listed on basis of AMICUS catalogue note reference to “story.”
Bociurkiw, Marusya, 1957-
The Woman Who Loved Airports: Stories and Narratives. Vancouver: Press Gang
Publishers, 1994.
(148 p.; ISBN 0889740356)
Bradley, Gordon D.
“21 Skin Lies &
the Naked Truth.” MA thesis,
(184 p.)
Included among the “repetitions or leitmotifs in the text” are “selected
portions of the lives of North American gay men between about 1965 and
1997” –ProQuest Digital Disserations abstract.
Brand, Dionne.
“Madame Alaird’s Breasts.” In Sans Souci and Other Stories, pp. 79-84.
Toronto: Women’s Press, 1994, c1989.
Originally published: Stratford, Ont.: Williams-Wallace, 1988.
The reaction of an audience to a reading of this story is reported in Brand’s
Bread out of Stone, pp. 29-30, fuller ref. to which is in the LITERATURE: ESSAYS section.
Brant, Beth (Degonwadonti), 1941-
Food & Spirits: Stories. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, c1991.
(125 p.; ISBN 0932379923; 0932379931)
Castle, Stephanie.
Tales from Cascadia: A Collection of Gender Stories.Corriveau, Art.
“With Mirrors.” In Blood Pudding, pp. 26-36. By Art Corriveau. Montréal:
Coyote, Ivan E. (Ivan Elizabeth), 1969-
Close to Spider Man. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000.
(180 p.; ISBN 1551520869)
“Female narrators seek out lives for themselves [in]…Yukon;” “a moving
scrapbook of what it’s like to be a young queer woman in the North” –
from Arsenal Pulp website at www.arsenalpulp.com , last accessed November 23, 2000.
Dorsey, Candace Jane.
Vanilla, and Other Stories. Edmonton: NeWest Publishers, c2000.
(161 p.; ISBN 1896300219)
Ref.: University of Western Ontario Library catalogue, in which one
record descriptor for this work is Lesbian literature – short story.
Dubé, Peter, 1962-
At the Bottom of the Sky: Fictions. Montreal: DC Books, 2007.
(112 p.; ISBNs 9781897190197 and 9781897190203)
Ref.: AMICUS record no. 33269651. Described in an interview of
Dubé, The Danforth Review, September 2007, as “linked short stories,”
(http://www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/peter_dube.htm ,
viewed October 16, 2008). Thus, placed in this section.
[The interview also makes reference to his chapbook, Vortex Faction
Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001)].
His story “Lycaon,” from At the Bottom of the Sky, has been included in
the anthology Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative
Fiction.
Findley, Timothy.
Dust to Dust. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1997.
(225 p.; ISBN 0002244098)
In two of the stories, “A Bag of Bones” and “Come As You Are,” Minna is
married to Bragg, a gay man. These characters also appeared in Findley’s earlier
Stones collection (Markham, Ont.: Viking, 1988).
Fleming, Anne.
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories. Victoria, B.C.: Polestar Book Publishers, c1998.
(221 p.; ISBN 1896095186)
Only some stories relevant to this list. See, e.g., “Malcolm Loves Cathy,”
about a lesbian making a marriage of convenience, and “You Would
Know What to Do,” about a 69-year-old man who robs a bank, trying to
prove himself to his wife and estranged gay son.
Forrest, Katherine V., 1939-
Dreams and Swords. Tallahassee, Fla.: Naiad, 1987.
(175 p.; ISBN 0941483037)
Author born in Windsor, Ont.
Ten stories; science fiction; listed in Gay & Lesbian Literature, v. 1, p. 137, with no description.
Fox, Matthew, 1977-
Cities of Weather: Stories. Toronto: Riverbank Press, 2005.
(283 p.; ISBNs 189633220X , 9781896332208)
Ref.: N. Richards communication.
AMICUS catalogue no. 30707841
Graham, Candis J., 1949-
Imperfect Moments. Vancouver: Polestar, c1993.
(174 p.; ISBN 0919591477)
“Thoughtful, humorous, and gently irreverent, these are stories written
from the heart of the lesbian community” – Lesbians in Print, p. 155, entry 0752.
Graham, Candis J. (Candis Jean),
1949-
Tea for Thirteen: Stories. Ottawa, Ont.: Impertinent Press,
c1990.
(150 p.; ISBN 1895349001)
Grube, John, 1930-
I’m Supposed to Be Crazy and Other Stories. Toronto: Dartington Press, 1997.
(165 p.; ISBN 1894130006)
Hamilton, J. A. (Jena), 1954-
July Nights & Other Stories. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, c1992.
(153 p.; ISBN 1550540157)
Hamilton, Jane Eaton, 1954-
Hunger: Stories. Ottawa, ON: Oberon Press, c2002.
(157 p.; ISBNs 0778012026, 0778012034)
Ref.: N. Richards communication.
Harvie, Ron, 1943-
Men Working: Stories. New York: Gay Presses of New York, 1984.
(131 p.; ISBN 0960472495)
Ref.: Archives gaies du Québec online bibliography, which states
that the majority of these works are about Montreal.
Ibáñez-Carrasco, J. Francisco.
Killing Me Softly: Morir Amando. San Francisco, CA: Suspect Thoughts
Press, c2004.
(206 p.; ISBN 0974638811 and 9780974638812)
Ref.: OCLC catalog record no. 55600601 ; see also article
“Exposing the Underbelly: Killing Me Softly / Francisco Ibanez-
Carrasco’s Sordid Details,” Xtra West [Vancouver], May 12, 2005
(electronic article viewed Aug. 1, 2008), in which author and Michael
Harris discuss the book and the author’s writing.
Ibañez-Carrasco, Francisco.
“Strictly Professional.” In Best Gay Erotica 2000, pp. 195-206. San Francisco:
Cleis Press, c1999.
Ibañez-Carrasco’s biographical note in this collection states that he is
“a Chilean-Canadian freelance writer in Vancouver…since 1986” (p. 214).
Ilsley, George K., 1958-
Random Acts of Hatred. Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003.
(176 p.; ISBN 1551521520)
See also review in Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
September 20, 2003, p. D18, titled “Gay Hell Begins at Home.”
Kearney, Greg.
Mommy, Daddy, Baby. Toronto: McGilligan Books, 2004.
(141 p.; ISBN 1894692098)
Ref.: Toronto Public Library’s “Celebrating Gay Pride, 2005”
Recommended Reading list, at:
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/rec_cel_gay_2005.jsp
(viewed October 15, 2008), which notes that this work is “[p]opular Xtra!
columnist Kearney’s first collection of short stories, filled with his offbeat
worldview and typically mordant wit.”
Kobayashi, Tamai, 1965-
Exile and the Heart: Lesbian Fiction. Toronto: Women’s Press, 1998.
(102 p.; ISBN 0889612293)
Kramer, Greg, 1961-
Hogtown Bonbons. Toronto: Riverbank Press, c1999.
(149 p.; ISBN 1896332110)
“The stories originally published in Xtra!, Toronto’s gay and lesbian
bi-weekly” – Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
Kramer, Greg, 1961-
Wally. Toronto: Riverbank Press, c2004.
(292 p.; ISBN 1896332196; AMICUS no. 28838072)
Protagonist Wally’s teenaged son, Alexander, is gay.
Labonté, Richard, ed.
Where the Boys Are. San Francisco, CA: Cleis, c2007.
(192 p.)
Collection of short stories. Item included because of
Labonté’s Canadian connection.
Lee, Sky.
Bellydancer: Stories. Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers, 1994.
(208 p.; ISBN 0889740399)
Lee, Suki, 1969-
Sapphic Traffic. Montreal: Conundrum Press, 2003.
(ISBN 1894994019)
Levine, Elise.
Driving Men Mad. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine’s Quill, 1995.
(126 p.; ISBN 0889841551)
Collection of relationship stories, at least one of which concerns
a young lesbian who leaves a small town for the big city. Not examined;
probably broader than scope of this bibliography.
MacDonald, Ingrid, 1960-
Catherine, Catherine: Lesbian Short Stories. Toronto: Women’s Press, c1991.
(142 p.; ISBN 0889611645)
Manthorne, Jackie.
Fascination – and Other Bar Stories. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy, c1991.
(142 p.; ISBN 0921881169)
Manthorne, Jackie.
Without Wings. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy, 1993.
(170 p; ISBN 0921881290)
Marchand, Donna M.
“Siblings’ Lament.” In Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(2)
(Summer-Fall 1994): 536-544.
Ref.: LegalTrac electronic index, accessed January 22, 2003, which includes
in citation the terms “lesbianism,” “feminism,” “law,” and “short stories.”
Marchessault, Jovette, 1938-
Tryptique lesbien. Ottawa, Ont.: Editions de la Pleine lune, 1980.
(ISBN 2890240037)
Published also in English translation as: Lesbian Triptych. Toronto:
Women’s Press, c1985 (100 p.; ISBN 0889610886).
Contents of English translation: “A Lesbian Chronicle from Medieval
Quebec,” “Night Cows,” and “The Angel Maker.”
Marcoux, Daniel.
Les interdits: nouvelles. Montréal: Guérin, 1987.
(213 p.; ISBN 2760118789)
Ref.: Archives gaies du Québec online bibliography
McCormack, Derek, 1969-
Wish Book: A Catalogue of Stories. Toronto: Gutter Press, 1999.
(171 p.; ISBN 1896356257)
See “The Suitor,” pp. 93-97, and “The Confectioner,” pp. 99-103, of this
edition.
McGehee, Peter.
“Postcards.” In Canadian Brash, pp. [35]-42. Edited by Jason Sherman.
Toronto: Coach House Press, c1990.
The collection Canadian Brash receives separate listing in the
LITERATURE – ANTHOLOGIES section.
McGehee, Peter.
“Sex and Love.” In Canadian Brash, pp. [53]-62. Edited by Jason Sherman.
Toronto: Coach House Press, c1990.
The collection Canadian Brash receives separate listing in the
LITERATURE – ANTHOLOGIES section.
McGehee, Peter.
“Survival.” In Canadian Brash, pp. [77]-83. Edited by Jason Sherman.
Toronto: Coach House Press, c1990.
The collection Canadian Brash receives separate listing in the
LITERATURE – ANTHOLOGIES section.
Mootoo, Shani, 1958-
Out on Main Street & Other Stories. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1993.
(122 p.; ISBN 0889740526)
The stories deal with issues of identity for women of South Asian descent.
Narration of the title story is by a lesbian of Indo-Trinidadian background
who experiences discrimination when shopping with her girlfriend in an Indian
area of Vancouver.
Munro, Alice.
“The Turkey Season.” In The Moons of Jupiter : Stories, pp. [60]-76. Toronto:
Macmillan of Canada, c1982.
Ref.: Douglas Chambers (“Canadian Literature in English,” in
online glbtq encyclopedia at www.glbtq.com, accessed 3/13/03)
refers to this as “one of the best Canadian gay short stories.”
Story published earlier in The New Yorker, Dec. 29, 1980.
Nawaz, Saleema, 1979-
Mother Superior: Stories. Calgary: Freehand Books, 2008.
(289 p.; ISBN 9781551119274)
Ref.: Review by J. Bartley, Globe and Mail [Toronto], Oct. 25/08, p. D15.
Review suggests only that the title story has one lesbian character.
Noyes, Donald, 1933-
Natural Inheritance: Sixteen Short Stories. Church Point, NS: Haydn Pub., 2007.
(ISBN 9780978404000)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue prepublication record no. 33486434. Although
this is a prepublication record, it does contain several information
hyperlinks concerning the work (viewed September 26, 2008).
Descriptor applied to this work: Homophobia – Fiction.
Pyper, Andrew.
“Camp Sacred Heart.” In Kiss Me. By Andrew Pyper.
Erin, Ont.: Porcupine’s Quill, c1996.
(ISBN 0889841810)
Review: Quill & Quire 62(10) (Oct. 1996): 41. Review calls this
the best of the 13 pieces of Pyper’s collection and says it “remembers a
half-erotic, needful encounter between two boys at a Christian summer
camp.”
Quan, Andy.
Calendar Boy. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2001.
(228 p.; ISBN 0921586825)
Quan, Andy.
Six Positions: Sex Writing. San Francisco, CA: Green Candy;
London: Distributed by Turnaround, c2005.
(202 p.; ISBN 1931160368)
Raphael, Mitchel.
“Drag Queens, Sissy Boys and a Virus Called HIV. Gay Male Icons before and
after AIDS: A Study/Creation of Gay Male Works.” MA thesis, York University, 1996.
(195 p.)
Analytical, but also contains four works of short fiction.
Roberta, Jean, 1951-
Secrets of the Invisible World. Montreal: Lilith Publications, 1987.
(126 p.; ISBN 0920681034)
Cover subtitle: Lesbian short stories.
Rodriguez, Nice.
Throw It to the River. Toronto: Women’s Press, 1993.
(156 p.; ISBN 0889611882; 0889611874)
Rowe, Michael.
“In October.” In Triptych of Terror: Three Chilling Tales by the Masters of
Gay Horror. Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, 2006.
Rowe’s story is about an outcast teen living in suburban Canada.
Rule, Jane.
Inland Passage, and Other Stories. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys ; Tallahassee,
Fla.: Naiad, 1985.
(273 p.; ISBN 0886190754 [L&OD]; 0930044584 and 0930044568 [Naiad])
Sheffield, Rebecka, and Zieman, Kate, eds.
We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Used to It. Toronto: Homosaywhat?, 2005.
(88 p.; ISBN 097371610X)
Ref.: N. Richards communication.
AMICUS no. 30984957 AMICUS no. 33186024.
AMICUS descriptors include reference to Canadian and American
short stories and Canadian and American lesbians’ writings.
Silvera, Makeda.
Her Head a Village and Other Stories. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1994.
(124 p.; ISBN 0889740569)
“In the title story…a black woman author struggles to write, weighed down
by the knowledge that ‘what made writing dangerous for her was who she
was – Black/woman/lesbian/mother/worker’”
– from Gay & Lesbian Literature, v. 2, p. 332.
Silvera, Makeda.
Remembering G. and Other Stories. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1991.
(108 p.; ISBN 0920813607)
In one story, “Out de Candle,” adolescent girls explore their
sexuality together.
Stone, Kyle.
Menagerie: Stories of Passion and Dark Fantasy. Toronto: Back Room, c2000.
(164 p.; ISBN 0968677614)
Taste This (Performance Group).
Boys Like Her: Transfictions. By Taste This, Anna Camilleri and others.
Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1998.
(221 p.; ISBN 0889740860)
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia.
Tahuri: Short Stories. Toronto: Women’s Press, c1993.
(103 p.; ISBN 0889611831)
Canadian publisher; subject is New Zealand-related – Maori and lesbians.
Teleky, Richard, 1946-
“Notes on Parking.” In Goodnight, Sweetheart and Other Stories, pp. 119-129.
By Richard Teleky. Dunvegan, Ont.: Cormorant Books, c1993.
(ISBN 0920953476)
Of the ten stories of the collection, this is the one with strong relevance
to the bibliography. Concerns cruising in a city park.
Thomson, Robert.
Need: Stories. Toronto: Riverbank Press, c1999.
(139 p.; ISBN 1896332102)
Thomson, Robert (Robert Walter), 1964-
Secret Things: A Collection of Short Stories. Toronto: Momentum Promotions,
1994, c1993.
(89 p.; ISBN 096982050X)
Ref.: N. Richards communication.
AMICUS catalogue no. 13513401
Compiler’s note: the AMICUS catalogue has another record, 13900025,
for the following Thomson title: Secret Things: A Collection of Shorter
Stories, 2nd ed.; Toronto: Immediate Press, 1994 (87 p.; ISBN 0969820518)
Tremblay, Michel.
Douze coups de théâtre: récits. Montréal: Leméac, 1992.
(265 p.; ISBN 276093148X)
Broader than scope of this bibliography, but see especially “Tristan und
Isolde,” pp. 155-180.
Tulchinsky, Karen X.
In Her Nature. Toronto: Women’s Press, c1995.
(200 p.; ISBN 0889612102)
Author’s first collection of short stories. Review: Herizons 10(4)
(Fall 1996):33.
Watmough, David, 1926-
The Connecticut Countess: Chronicles of Davey Bryant. Trumansburg, N.Y.:
Crossing Press, 1984.
(189 p.; ISBN 0895941252)
Includes the stories “Cousin Petherick and the Will,” “False Start,” and
“Inside Out.”
Watmough, David, 1926-
Fury. Ottawa, Ont.: Oberon Press, 1984.
(152 p.; ISBN 0887505422; 0887505430)
Includes stories “Fury,” “One for All,” and “Nelly Moriarty and the
Jewish Question.”
Watmough, David, 1926-
Hunting with Diana. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, c1996.
(170 p.; ISBN 155152032X)
Watmough, David, 1926-
Vibrations in Time. Toronto: Mosaic Press, 1986.
(125 p.; ISBN 0889623406; 0889623392)
Includes stories “I Hate Queers” and “The Savage Gardener.”
Williams, Tamara L.
Truth and Lies. Toronto: J. Lorimer, 2002.
(123 p.; ISBNs 1550287567 and 1550287532)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 26179772, where it is marked as a
“Juvenile” work.
One online review notes that this is a story of gay bashing in high school
and that the work was written by a high school teacher.
Ziniuk, Tara-Michelle.
“Does She Look Like a Boy?” In Best Lesbian Erotica, 2004. Selected and
introduced by Michelle Tea. San Francisco, CA: Cleis, Press, 2004.
(276 p.; ISBN 9781573441827)