Waiting

Rona Altrows is an editor, fiction writer, essayist, and playwright. With Naomi K. Lewis, she co-edited Shy (UAlberta Press), and with Julie Sedivy she co-edited Waiting (UAlberta Press), both theme-based anthologies. Her most recent work of fiction is At This Juncture and her website is www.ronaaltrows.com.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsBurgeoning1 | Bill of Fare // Susan Olding2 | Saturday // Anne Lévesque3 | Waiting for Now: Four Stories // Steven Ross Smith4 | The Escape // Edythe Anstey Hanen5 | Waiting for Alexandra // Glen SorestadScope6 | The Art Hospital, the Floating Hospital,and the Burning House // Elizabeth Haynes7 | The Past Was a Small Notebook,Much Scribbled-Upon // Cora Siré8 | Beyond the Horizon // Julie Sedivy9 | Two Women Waiting // Rebecca Danos10 | Esperando // Patti Edgar11 | Currents // Alice MajorMoment12 | Letter of Intent // Rona Altrows13 | The Next Minute // Jane Cawthorone14 | Frozen // Lorri Neilsen Glenn15 | Harder, But Still Not Painful // Robin Van Eck16 | Alterations // Wendy McgrathSoul17 | Who Will Find Me // Weyman Chan18 | in the event of // Stuart Ian Mckay19 | Whisper Talk // Anne Sorbie20 | Waiting for the Impossible // Aritha Van Herk21 | On the Pleasure of Waiting // Richard Harrison22 | Storage // Sharon ButalaIrretrievable23 | Heavy Weight of Silence Lee Kvern24 | Impressions // Margaret Macpherson25 | Telling // Vivian Hansen26 | Tom Petty Just Isn’t There for You: Riffs on Waiting // Leslie GreentreeGuts27 | Wait Training // Samantha Albert28 | Waiting for a Hero // Jane Harris29 | Bones, Honey // Roberta Rees30 | Undeterred // John Graham-Pole31 | Sa Ta Na Ma // Kathy Seifert32 | We Come and We Go // Kelly S. ThompsonNotes Contributors

"I would buy this book based on the contributor list alone. The essays are well balanced—short mixed in with long, very well-established writers mixed in with new ones, a variety of approaches and styles, and surprising interpretations of the waiting theme mixed in with more expected explorations. Waiting is as strong a collection as I have read."