DARRYL  BERGER

   I paint on canvas and I draw on paper and I write short stories. Sometimes the artwork inspires the fiction and sometimes it's the reverse. My work has appeared in literary magazines like Prairie Fire, Windsor Review, Geist, Subterrain, The Fiddlehead, Queen Street Quarterly, The New Quarterly, Event and others. The unpublished manuscript for my short-story collection – called Punishing Ugly Children – won the 2007 David Adams Richards Prize. This same manuscript will be published by Killick Press in Fall, 2010. My short story Scissors was a finalist in the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. I write and draw and paint in Kingston, Ontario and keep up appearances at www.red-handed.blogspot.com.