Out now live and loud is the Kickstarter for We Make The Village, a new collection of short fiction by Canadian authors surrounding the theme of community, and what it means.
Put together by West Coast author Asha Jade Goodwin, this collection features a wide array of thoughts on what it means to be in and out of community with others. As per the Kickstarter page:
From rejection to acceptance, support to sacrifice; in this anthology, you’ll find a mix of it all, fiction and non-fiction, stories and poems. What does community mean? Who is a part of our community? How do we cultivate community in our own lives? What if we are rejected from our community?
We Make The Village will feature 40 stories from 30 Canadian authors and at least five original illustrations from a Prince George artist.
More to the point, We Make The Village will feature “Rooming Situation,” a new short story from me that was written during a period where I was in some despair about the state of the housing market and the future of how we live together. That period has not ended, of course, and it’s worth taking some time to think through the consequences of a world where you aren’t likely to be able to buy a house if you didn’t own one by 2021 at the latest. Multiple roommate living situations become a sort of forced found family situation, and while that can be difficult to deal with, there’s also a certain magic in the relationships that get formed.
Until one of them snaps, of course.
There are a lot of great reward tiers available for We Make The Village and it’s worth the time to go through them. In addition to getting the hardcover edition, you can also get collection boxes with stickers, bookmarks, and postcards, as well as multiple copies of the book that you can give as gifts. The authors are from all over Canada, so if you’re looking to keep your elbows up, you might as well go all the way, eh?
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