Denman Island author, Bill Engleson, one of thirteen authors in the just released Anthology, Not The Same Road Out: Trans Canada Stories, (Tidewater Press), will be signing copies of the book at Denman Island bookstore Abraxas Books.
Engleson will be at the store from 1 until 3 p.m. on June 28. If pressed, he will "perhaps" be reading a short selection from his contribution to the anthology.
The Trans Canada Trail is the longest multi-use trail in the world. In this work of fiction, it is the setting for journeys that range from the physical to the emotional and metaphorical.
Thirteen stories by acclaimed writers from across the country, one from each province and territory, share tales of estrangement and engagement, mystery and melodrama, quiet horror and loud disasters.
CBC Books selected Not the Same Road Out: Trans Canada Stories as one of 18 books Canadians should be reading in June. Engleson adds that reading the anthology beyond June is also quite acceptable.
Engleson is a retired social worker, pickleball aficionado, novelist, poet, humourist, essayist, and flash fictionista. He was raised in Nanaimo, B.C., lived for decades in New Westminster, and retired to Denman Island in 2003. He is the author of two novels, Like a Child to Home, which received an Honourable Mention at the inaugural 2016 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and 2023’s The Life of Gronsky. In 2016, Silver Bow Publishing released his second book, a collection of humorous literary essays entitled Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul.
Deep into COVID’s first and second wave, his poetry appeared in several anthologies including, VIRL’s Alone but Not Alone - Poetry in Isolation; Drift, Poems and Poets from the Comox Valley; Planet Earth’s The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! and the first and at least one subsequent edition of the Van Isle Poetry Collective. In the past few years, his fiction/creative non-fiction has appeared in Island Writer Magazine and Geist as well as 2024’s Small Seasons.
