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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon
Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon
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Editorial Introduction to The Goose Volume 20, Issue 1 (2023).
Before Showtime, Amy Kaler
Before Showtime, Amy Kaler
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In this piece of creative nonfiction, I reflect on the experience of having time on my hands in peri-urban spaces that are characterized by transience, liminality, and contingency, while waiting for performance time at youth cheerleading competitions. I describe walking around these places, specifically Las Vegas and Abbotsford (BC). I connect my experience to other accounts of aimless wandering, such as the "derive" of psychogeography, and note the ways in which the exercises of power and potential world-ending catastrophe are present, but latent, in these landscapes. In particular, I consider the historic cold-war threat of a nuclear bomb as well …
Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak
Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak
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A personal essay reflecting on my relationship with Refinery Park and Beaver Dam Flats in light of its complex history.
On Foot, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith
On Foot, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith
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“On Foot” is an interdisciplinary examination of the importance of walking and running to the creative life. It is primarily a personal essay braided together with free verse poetry and a small proportion of inquiry into a few famous thinkers and writers who walked regularly. The essay traces a serious foot injury and the effects of that trauma, coupled with the threat of loss of sight, on a writer with a long history of walking and running as part of their creative process. The five poems unspool the sights and sounds of the natural rural world where they walk daily, …
Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer
Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer
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"Because the Muddiness of Mud Must Be Uttered," by disabled senior writer Dorothy Ellen Palmer, is a personal, braided, nonfiction essay tracing how her access to and understanding of moving on land has been shaped by ableism, ageism, and the pandemic.
Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld
Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld
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A creative non-fiction piece about childbirth and walking, situating the self and the new child, and climate anxiety and fear for the future.
Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan
Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan
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"Surface Tension" is a piece of creative nonfiction by Kerry Ryan.
Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman
Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman
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Kent Hoffman explores human movement, his own mobility, and how it influences the way he moves on land. This personal essay, told through the lens of disability and accessibility, outlines his experience of living with Becker muscular dystrophy. Hoffman's approach to walking and mobility is heavily influenced by a fear of falling. As his mobility is changing, he's adapting and seeking out new ways to move on land. Different modes of mobility determine the way we experience personal movement, but accessibility determines who is welcome in spaces in the first place. Accessibility in the form of providing equal access is …
When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory
When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory
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This first-person creative nonfiction piece examines engaging with the outdoors, primarily through walking and hiking, while struggling with diagnoses of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos (hEDS) and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). The author also considers how growing up with a parent whose disabilities made it more difficult to enjoy hikes impacted her own perception of the ableism inherent in the design, architecture, and infrastructure of many state and local parks. The author discusses the importance and struggle of teaching environmental literature through the lens of Disability Studies and advocates both for visibility as well as concrete changes to make hiking and sauntering …
Surrender No. 40, Ken Wilson
Surrender No. 40, Ken Wilson
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In June 2016, I made an improvised pilgrimage on foot through the Haldimand Tract in southwestern Ontario, the territory deeded to the Haudensaunee in 1784 and mostly stolen back by settlers since then. I grew up in Brantford, a city in the Haldimand Tract, ignorant of the history of the area. When I learned about that history, I decided to walk through the Tract as a way of understanding, physically, the scale of the land theft that had occurred, a theft that, as a settler, I had benefitted from. “Surrender No. 40” is an account of that pilgrimage.
Perils Of Heavy Rainfall: Displacement And Resettlement Driven By Floods, Shumaila Hemani Dr.
Perils Of Heavy Rainfall: Displacement And Resettlement Driven By Floods, Shumaila Hemani Dr.
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Monsoon is typically a season to rejoice in South Asia because it cools off July's hot summer weather. In the poetry of Sufi mystic Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, the monsoon represents a time of abundance, and his verses are prayers of abundance for Sindh and the entire world as rainfall is indeed a much-awaited season to cast off dry spells of the desert. However, in the past few years, climate change has led to heavy floods and massive displacement of poor people in Sindh. This year, floods even reached Karachi's urban city, the biggest metropolis of Pakistan, causing the displacement …
Time Doesn’T Matter, Kelly Shepherd
Seepage, Kelly Norah Drukker
Seepage, Kelly Norah Drukker
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This creative nonfiction essay explores the interrelatedness of place—in this case, the island of Inis Mór in Ireland—with time, memory, and emotion, tracing how a landscape as we experience it in the present can also intersect with the physical and mnemonic landscapes of our past.
Stray Thoughts And Desire Paths—A Dialogue, Jenna Butler, Yvonne E. Blomer
Stray Thoughts And Desire Paths—A Dialogue, Jenna Butler, Yvonne E. Blomer
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In this dialogue, authors, teachers, and environmentalists Yvonne Blomer and Jenna Butler discuss the ways in which our desire paths—our intents for our lives—have changed since the start of the pandemic. Covering women's writing, feminism, daily life during the pandemic, environmentalism, and race, this dialogue is an act of allyship from two women of different backgrounds writing together.
Skins, Surfaces, And Other Worlds, Priscilla Jolly
Skins, Surfaces, And Other Worlds, Priscilla Jolly
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This personal essay explores the notion of skin and how the writer deals with "skin" as an element of racialization and skin as a site of allergies.
From Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal, Brian Bartlett
From Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal, Brian Bartlett
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This piece, an excerpt from an ongoing manuscript of plein-air nature writing, is one of forty projected journal entries involving excursions beginning before sunrise, with exploration of natural settings and observations of natural phenomena (birds, plants, mammals, insects, water, clouds, light, the sun, etc.) interwoven with readings about morning in scientific texts, poetry, and other kinds of writing.
That Was Then, This Is Hell, Christine L. Lowther
That Was Then, This Is Hell, Christine L. Lowther
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Author describes a storm at her floating home and wonders it it is a by-product of human industry/ climate change.
A Roof Of One's Own: Widow Walking In The Anthropocene, Anna C. Mullen
A Roof Of One's Own: Widow Walking In The Anthropocene, Anna C. Mullen
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A nonfiction work that explores widow's walks in a time of climate change on the coasts. This piece walks the lines between speculative fiction and lyrical essay.
Yardwork: A Biography Of An Urban Place By Daniel Coleman, Vivian M. Hansen
Yardwork: A Biography Of An Urban Place By Daniel Coleman, Vivian M. Hansen
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Review of Daniel Coleman's Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place.
Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton
Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton
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An undergraduate’s memoir about his experience as a summer researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. The student explains his research in his own words and gives his thoughts on how he, the research center, and the other scientists there fit into the local and national society.
Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin
Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin
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Natural history. Teaching. Writing. All have form, all have function. But just as no architecture is risk-free, no architecture is neutral. In this personal essay, I explore the surprising connections that develop when university students engage with natural history as way of knowing the ground underfoot.
Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank
Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank
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In this essay, Sylvia Bowerbank describes wandering with her two dogs on her land on the edge of Beverly Swamp in Southern Ontario in an effort to cultivate Green habits and attitudes in her daily life.
Autumn’S Fragrant Afterthought, Suzanne Stewart
Autumn’S Fragrant Afterthought, Suzanne Stewart
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This creative nonfiction essay is an excerpt from a book length study that I have recently completed on the seasons. My manuscript was inspired by the Medieval Book of Hours, particularly its Labours of the Months calendar. This essay is a portrait of November. My setting is northeastern Nova Scotia, where the Medieval model of agrarian labour is still remarkably preserved. The essay is also a reflection on time: the rhythmic, seasonal flow that counters the accelerated pace of modern, urbanized life.
Tangled Roots, Bittersweet Exposure, Chase Clow
Tangled Roots, Bittersweet Exposure, Chase Clow
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Accompanied by tree portraits, this personal narrative reflects upon the intersecting histories between the indigenous peoples of Marin County (north of San Francisco, CA) and the author, who is Euro-American, while contemplating the changing relationship to their shared woodland, the effects of colonization, and possibilities for healing.
From "Brief Eulogies For Lost Species", Daniel Hudon
From "Brief Eulogies For Lost Species", Daniel Hudon
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Since the year 1500, almost 900 species around the world have officially become extinct. Several of these species resided in Canada and though some are well known to the public, others are not. Here, briefly, are stories of five of them.
Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson
Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson
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How do we get closer to the nature of the bee’s, or any non-human's, experience, mystery that it is? This essay is a lyrical meditation on the power (and challenges) of poetry and language to access non-human worlds.
Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett
Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett
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Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal is a fifty-entry plein-air writing project drafted between April 2013 and October 2014 by various bodies of water—rivers, brooks, lakes, bays, marshes, waterfalls, a vernal pond, a Japanese koi pond. Most of the writing was done in Nova Scotia locations, but some entries were drafted in New Brunswick, Montreal, Missouri, Manhattan, and London, England. I often walked from an hour to four or five hours, then sat down on bare earth, grass, sand, stone, or wood, and wrote, keeping attuned to my surroundings but also letting my mind and memory wander.
Me Artsy Compiled And Edited By Drew Hayden Taylor, Nathalie N. Hager 2159876
Me Artsy Compiled And Edited By Drew Hayden Taylor, Nathalie N. Hager 2159876
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Review of Me Artsy compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor.
Brushfire, Ariel Gordon
Brushfire, Ariel Gordon
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“Brushfire” concerns itself with how people use urban forests, from indecent exposure to poaching to teenage drinking party-bonfires that get out of control. Though it could be construed as a manifesto on walking-in-the-woods, it also touches on some of the conflicts inherent in urban/nature experiences.
Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye
Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye
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Joel Deshaye reviews Brian Bartlett's Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar