Royston Tester
Royston Tester at Lorna's garden, Umbria de Algayat, Spain
Monsoon in Shanghai

Publications History

FICTION:

2012

Fatty Goes to China
Eleven short stories
Tightrope Books, Toronto
Spring

2004

Summat Else
Linked Stories
Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 0-88984-257-4 October 2004 176 pp


SUMMAT ELSE REVIEWED BY:

2005

Prairie Fire
Online Edition. (Steven Ross Smith)

2005

Literary Review of Canada
May. (Graham Hurley)

2005

THIS Magazine
Jan/Feb. (Adam Lewis Schroeder)

2004

Globe and Mail
December 11. (Jim Bartley)

2004

Hamilton Magazine
November. (Peggy Chapman)


SHORT FICTION:

2012

Fatty Goes to China
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
China Online Quarterly (Hong Kong)
Spring. Forthcoming

2011

A Beijing Minute
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
Vol. 10 No. 3. July

2010

Carnaval
The Antigonish Review
Autumn Issue # 163. 11-12
(40th Anniversary Competition - Honourable Mention)

2010

Dotty
Grain Magazine
Fall. 38:1. 90-95
(Nominated for National Magazine Award 2011)

2010

Seriously
Leaf Garden
U.S. Literary Journal
Issue # 8. March. Print/online

2010

Bird on a High Branch
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
Vol. 10 No. 1. January

2010

Ducks of Berlin, Sudden Memory of a Row of Beeches, May I Proctor For You?
(A Berlin Trilogy - feature and interview)
Oblique Quarterly
Launch issue. March. Print/Online. 10-25

2008

Pink Virgins of KFC
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Hong Kong, China. Online Publication
Anniversary Issue (November)

2008

Face
DREAMScene
U.S. Online Literary Journal. Issue #5 (June)

2008

Queens Take Longer
DREAMScene
U.S. Online Literary Journal. Issue #3 (April)

2007

After Queen Zenobia's Telephone
The Antigonish Review
Winter. 147. 91-97

2006

An Island in the South Pacific
Grain Magazine
34:1. 64-71

2005

Pouffe
Blithe House Quarterly
U.S. Online Literary Journal
Spring. 9:2

2004

You Dress Up; You Dance
The Antigonish Review
Fall

2004

Travestis
Lodestar
U.S. Online Literary Journal
July

2004

Now Showing
Pagitica
2:4. 11-21
(Runner-Up 2004 Annual International Literary Contest)

2003

Once Upon a Prissy
Prism international
Fall. 42:1 64-72

2003

Let Us Eat and Drink
The New Quarterly
Special Issue – Bad Men Who Love Jesus
Spring. 86. 122-137
(Submitted by NQ for National Magazine Award 2004 – Fiction Category)

2003

Turn Your Back
Descant
Spring. 120. 34:1. 155-62
(Submitted to Journey Prize Anthology Competition 2004)
Administered by McClelland and Stewart Publishers, Toronto

2003

Unmentionable
The Antigonish Review
Winter. 131. 29-39

2002

Enoch Jones and the Bombmaker
Pagitica
2:2. 60-75

Blithe House Quarterly
U.S. Online Literary Journal
Feature story. Summer. 6:3

(Nominated for e2ink-2 Best of the Online Journals Anthology 2003 )

Finalist in New Century Writer Awards (U.S.)

Shortlisted for Prism International Short Story Competition 2002.

2002

Who Knows Where (unabridged)
The New Quarterly
Fall. 84. 152-168

2001

Who Knows Where (abridged)
Queen Street Quarterly
Winter. 5:3. 21-32

1999

Summat Else
The Malahat Review
Fall. 128. 76-84

1999

Disguised by Night
Church-Wellesley Review
Fall

1999

Dog in a Red Waistcoat
Queen Street Quarterly
Winter/Spring. 2:4 &3:1. 9-13

1998

Redwater
Winner of Chapters Prize. $1000
B&A New Writing. Annual Short Story Contest
Summer

1997

Notfall
Prism International
Fall. 36:1. 26-36

1996

Lessons in Space
Quarry Magazine
44:2. 111-122
(Submitted for Journey Prize Competition 1997)

1996

Mrs. Shooter, Burning
Prism International
(Finalist. Annual Short Story Contest)

1995

Crooked Hollow
B&A New Writing
(Also won Fiction Prize – Annual Literary Awards
Hamilton and Region Arts Council – 1996)


ANTHOLOGIES – SHORT FICTION:

2005

Heaven
Everything I Have Is Blue (Anthology)
Suspect Thoughts Press
San Francisco, CA
Spring. Forthcoming

2003

Service
Quickies 3
Arsenal Pulp Press.
Vancouver, British Columbia. Fall. 176-178

2000

First Steps First
Intersections
Banff Centre Press.
Banff, Alberta. Fall. 42-46

1999

Crooked Hollow
Riprap
Banff Centre Press.
Banff, Alberta, Canada. Fall. 139-147

1999

Naked Night
Quickies 2
Arsenal Pulp Press
Vancouver. Fall. 68-71

1992

First Appointment
Golden Horseshoe Anthology
Mini Mocho Press. 152-156
(Story used in Walking Alone – a multimedia journey – CD ROM for College Literature courses. Canada. 2001 Pearson Educational Publishing)


NON-FICTION:

2009

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Editorial 'Some Other Life'
Issue #8 (August)
Online Publication

2008

Qingdao: Wind in its Sails
"China Through the Looking Glass" Series
Beijing Matric Culture Communications Ltd., Beijing, China
ISBN: 9780980947632.EPS 384 pp

1998

London Telecom: Building a History of Excellence 1988-1998. Volume 1
The London Telecom Group
London, Ontario

1987

The Hartleian Male Protagonist: a search for self
National Library of Canada
ISBN: 0315305789

1982

Principle of Unity in Patrick White's Novel 'Riders in the Chariot'
National Library of Canada
ISBN: 0315029900 : 9780315029903


ARTICLE/ESSAY:

2003

(very) Trying Monogamy
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Essays on Queer Sexuality and Desire
Alley Cat Editions - Boheme Press
Toronto, Ontario
(Book – finalist for 16th LAMBDA Literary Award 2004)

1995

Life, Sex and Impotence in the 90's
Globe and Mail
Facts and Arguments. August 16
Toronto, Ontario


BOOK REVIEWS:

1993

Echosystems by James Strecker
Hamilton Spectator
Review. October 30
Ontario

1993

Songs of Enchantment by Ben Okri
Hamilton Spectator
Review. July 10

1993

Angels and Insects by A.S.Byatt
Hamilton Spectator
Review. May 29

1993

Flying into Love by D.M.Thomas
Hamilton Spectator
Review. February 20

1993

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
Hamilton Spectator
Review. February 6

1993

My Father's Son by Farley Mowat
Hamilton Spectator
Review. January 2


BOOKS EDITED:

2008

Sichuan: The Spice of Life by Samantha Wilson and S. Lewis
Beijing Matric Culture Communications Ltd., Beijing, China
ISBN: 9780980947618 pp 335

2008

Zhengzhou: Cradle of Civilisation by Kit Gillet
Beijing Matric Culture Communication Ltd., Beijing, China
ISBN: 9780980947625 pp 160


ART CATALOGUE:

2006

Assembly of Silences Paintings by Marsha McDonald
Foreword.
Biennale, Florence, Italy pp 4-5


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