Winding from sea to sea to sea, the Trans Canada Trail is the setting for journeys that range from the physical to the emotional and metaphorical.
A Bigfoot sighting on the Voyageur Trail is the spark that brings old friends together after twenty years apart; a Japanese Canadian boy discovers an alien prairie landscape from the confines of an internment camp; a night at the movies in a small town in Newfoundland takes a near fatal turn . . . Thirteen stories by acclaimed writers from across the country, one from each province and territory along the world's longest trail system: tales of estrangement and engagement, mystery and melodrama, quiet horror and loud disasters.
K.J. Denny is a journalist and editor with more than thirty years' experience in Asia, North America and the United Kingdom. She has worked for international magazines and book publishers, including BBC Worldwide, and is now an independent creative consultant.
Contributors
Lillian Au is a writer and broadcast journalist from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Her non-fiction story, "Arviat" was featured in the anthology, Upon a Midnight Clear (Tidewater Press, 2024). Her poetry and memoir work have appeared in Ricepaper Magazine and been recognized by the International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir and the Chinese Canadian Museum.
Anne Baldo's short fiction has appeared in a number of publications, including Broken Pencil, Carousel Magazine, Hermine, Qwerty and SubTerrain. Her creative nonfiction piece, "Expecting," was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Morse Code for Romantics (Porcupine's Quill, 2023) is her first collection; her novel, One Day, Hard and Clear, is forthcoming with Dundurn Press. She lives in Windsor, Ontario.
Bill Engleson is a retired social worker, pickleball aficionado, energetic novelist, poet, humourist, essayist, and flash fictionista. He is the author of two novels (The Life of Gronsky and Like a Child to Home) and a collection of humorous literary essays, Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul. He is an engaged community volunteer, who lives on Denman Island, BC.
Matthew Heneghan is an author, public speaker, and mental health advocate based in Falkland, BC. A former military and civilian paramedic, he was diagnosed with PTSD shortly before the tragic loss of his mother to suicide in 2017. Matthew is the author of the memoir, A Medic's Mind, and Woven in War, a tribute to military sacrifice now archived at the Canadian War Museum. His work has been featured by CBC, CTV, and in several anthologies, earning national recognition, including the British Columbia Medal of Good Citizenship.
is an award-winning author, essayist, poet, fictionist, chef, curious cook, food writer, and runner who lives rurally west of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. An ex-restaurateur and longtime freelance journalist, she has written ten books, including Bread & Water: essays (University of Regina Press, 2021), winner of the SK Book Awards Nonfiction Award, the gold medal for culinary narrative from Taste Canada, and is the SK Libraries Association's 2025 selection for One Book One Province. Her most recent book is Among the Untamed (Frontenac House, 2023), winner of the 2024 SK Book Awards Poetry Award.
Sharon Hunt's short stories have appeared in Canadian literary magazines such as The Antigonish Review; other stories are forthcoming in anthologies. Her first mystery story, published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, was shortlisted for two international awards, while one, in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories, 2019. Currently, she is working on a collection of stories about loss and remembrance.
Tracy Kreuzburg is currently a student of the Creative Writing Diploma program at Memorial University Newfoundland. She has a background in social work, including addiction counselling and working with Afghan refugees. Her stories have appeared in an
