Canada is in the full swing of the literary season with the Giller Prize Award winners soon to be announced, and many fine literary festivals, like the Ottawa Writers Festival, offering a tremendous line-up of writers. In this issue of ORB, we are pleased to offer you our take on recent works of long and short fiction by Russell Wangersky, Adwoa Badoe, Bianca Lakoseljac and Barbara Fradkin, and non-fiction by Neil Gaiman. As well, we hope that you will enjoy our features on CBC's Eleanor Wachtel and Ottawa fantasy writer Bruno Lombardi.