Price: $9.95
ISBN: 1-895636-03-5
Anvil Press, 1992
“It’s difficult to hold on to the present when your mind is peeling away like the layers of an onion.” A man suffering from aminesis — the death of memory — tells the story of his mind-melting descent into mental illness.
Read More »A Circle of Birds by Hayden Trenholm
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-06-X
Anvil Press, 1994
The first and only shared prize of publication, the co-winners of the 16th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest form two books in one. One side offers a nightmarish vision of a land in decline, the other, a finely crafted piece of prose, rich in mood and evocative in its language.
Stolen Voices tells the story of Tod Coll, a painter grappling with the age old struggle of art versus commodity. Steve Lundin’s novel is visionary and hallucinatory; bitter and vitriolic; written in a style that brings to mind the writings of Celine.
Evocative in its language, Mitch Parry’s Vacant Rooms is the tale of a family history and the effects of the past on the present. The novel sifts through one family’s collective memory in an attempt to understand their sense of dissolving ties and personal loss.
Read More »Stolen Voices/Vacant Rooms by Steve Lundin and Mitch Perry
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 1-895636-09-4
Anvil Press, 1995
A novel about—what else—writing a novel in the space of three days, offers insights into family, friendship, growing up female. Body Speaking Words is a poignant, funny and sexy account of one woman’s attempt to understand what drives us to document the essential stories of our lives.
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-14-0
Anvil Press, 1996, 2008
This rollicking expose of the violent and ambivalent nature of the Toronto “after-hours” scene and its inhabitants became an instant underground hit. First published as the winner of the 19th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, it has now been re-released by Anvil Press as a special 10th anniversary edition.