Beginning of ¶ ... Primary texts: novels: Margaret Laurence: Stone Angel, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard: A Celibate Season, Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace, Kerri Sakamoto: Electrical Field short stories: Ethel Wilson: 'Haply the Soul of My Grandmother', Gabrielle Roy: 'Wilhelm', Mavis Gallant: 'Saturday', Alice Munro: 'Boys and Girls', Margaret Laurence: 'The Rain Child', Carol Shields: 'Milk Bread Beer and Ice', ’Weather’, Sandra Birdsell: 'Flowers for Weddings and Funerals', Dionne Brand: 'Sans Souci', ’Photograph’ selected poems by Jane Urquhart, Evelyn Lau and Jeanette Armstrong Criticism: Mavis Gallant: ‘Preface’, Margaret Laurence: Heart of a Stranger (autobiographical selection), ’The Short Answer’,Alice Munro interview (University of Alberta Collection), Margaret Atwood: Survival, ’If You Can't Say Something Nice...’, Aritha van Herk:’Out of Carol Shields’, ‘The Same Ticking Clock’, Dionne Brand: ’Bread out of Stone’... end of ¶.