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Synopsis: In this finely honed collection of short fiction, Dwayne Brenna creates a series of unforgettable characters—academics, street people, ageing hippies, farmers, music producers, videogame players and their mothers, movie stars, boxers, actors, cooks, and even a parrot—and , with compassion and affection (and sometimes laugh-out-loud humour) tests their mettle in a variety of fascinating…

Award-winning author Dwayne Brenna’s new collection of short fiction features unforgettable characters struggling with the challenges of being human. Shadowpaw Press in Regina, Saskatchewan, is happy to announce the release on March 11 of Theories of Everything, a new collection of short stories by award-winning Saskatoon author Dwayne Brenna. Theories of Everything will be launched in…

New Albion by Dwayne Brenna

... from Coteau Books ...

New Albion follows the lives of the employees of the New Albion theatre in London, England, in 1850, through the journal entries of the stage manager, Emlyn Phillips. Fighting it's own reputation – hindered by it's location and "sketchy" (at best) audience, a police commissioner who demands "morally upstanding" plays, and a playwright so decrepit and addicted to laudanum that the actors of the New Albion are never sure what to expect, the troupe attempts to put on the best show possible, each and every night. The reader is introduced to the entire company of actors, all of whom have their own set of issues, but who consistently band together as a community and family in the face of every obstacle – and there are many. As the theatre encounters problem after problem, Phillips must decide how much he's willing to sacrifice for the sake of his passion.

Split Finger --Dwayne Brenna

Used to throw the screwball but pronated hands and elbows don’t make healthy arms Fernando Valenzuela found this out too late

Took a while to stretch my fingers out but I enjambed a ball and held it there for weeks watching Jen on TSN

Then winter came I threw it in the gym for six months straight

So what’s it do? It fades like memories of Mathewson It dies like a wounded skunk and leaves an odor at your door