St. Thomas University has nurtured creative minds for more than a century â from its first alighting in Chatham, New Brunswick as St. Thomas College, a high school and junior college for boys, then as a fledgling degree-granting institution, and eventually to its present roost on a Fredericton hilltop, surveying New Brunswick and the world beyond. Here, in celebration of the university's 100th anniversary, is the first-ever anthology of fiction, poetry, and prose by its finest writers, including David Adams Richards, Sheree Fitch, Sheldon Currie, Kathy Mac, and Leo Ferrari.

Philip Lee's thrumming account of a public auction kicks off the collection. Next up: Sheree Fitch's poem "Cop," which wends through undercover prostitution and a child's abduction. Hard on its heels is Sheldon Currie's pitch-perfect story from a Cape Breton mining town. Warning: once you begin, you may find the volume difficult to put down!