Short Fiction

‘Katie Munnik is an excellent storyteller … Her stories are flesh and blood. They bring those big stories to life, while opening up new insights and perspectives.’

– Donald Smith, Director, the Scottish International Storytelling Festival

The Pieces We Keep is a collection of short stories told by vivid voices. Some voices are familiar: characters from scripture, history, folklore, myth and legend; others spring from the world around us and speak a modern tongue. Together, they direct our gaze to life’s small details – taking down the Christmas lights, swimming on a summer’s day, remembering the names of wild flowers, looking back and looking forward. The familiar becomes strange and the overlooked beautiful as Katie Munnik calls us to consider anew why stories matter.

The book charts the changing cycles and seasons of the year, reflecting the liturgical patterns of the church and all the weathers of our hearts.

The Pieces We Keep is available from major bookshops and online in paperback and e-book formats from Wild Goose Publications.

Poetry

Katie Munnik was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize.

Other poems have been published in The Cardiff Review, Chroma Magazine, Amaryllis,

and in Wild Goose Publications anthologies

 

Online

The Hay Festival Blog – Please Mind Your Head

The Pool – I Emptied My Four-Year-Old’s Coat Pockets

Seren Books Short Story of the Month – Swimming 

Dangerous Women Project – What the Midwife Taught Me

The New Quarterly – Currently Living In …

Meadows Walk – a story for the Echoes of the City podwalk read by Natalie Barrett. Listen on soundcloud

 

Newspaper and Magazines

Travel pieces in The Ottawa Citizen, The Vancouver Sun, The Winnipeg Free Press

Regular contributor to The Christian Courier

Columnist for The Presbyterian Record

Contributor to Geez Magazine