WINNIPEG - Turnstone Press is pleased to announce that Fatted Calf Blues by Steven Mayoff was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Short Fiction.
Mayoff's first collection of short stories centres around human desires, ideals, delusions, and the transformative power of loss and mortality. The characters are united by joy and sorrow, each struggling in an imperfect world toward their notion of an ideal life.
In the title story, belonging, home, and family are central themes. As a woman hitchhikes home to see her dying father, she meets another traveller who radically changes the course of her homecoming. "The Darkened 
Door" explores the nature of desire when a couple arrives home to find an anonymous love note on their apartment door. Ideals become delusions in "The Animal Room" when a shy medical student's intrusion into a university caretaker's laboratory forces him to examine a lost part of himself.
Steven Mayoff writes fiction, poetry, and lyrics. He has collaborated with singer/songwriter Melanie Doane and Winnipeg composer David R. Scott, contributed lyrics to the dance show Swingstep, for which he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award. His work has appeared in publications in Canada, Algeria, France, Ireland, and the United States. Steven was born in Montreal and now lives on Prince Edward Island.
The ReLit Awards were founded by writer Kenneth J. Harvey to honour works from Canada's independent presses. Winners receive a ReLit Ring with four moveable bands each bearing the alphabet. The awards will be presented at the Ottawa Writers Festival on October 20.
Turnstone Press is one of Manitoba's most decorated literary publishers, producing quality literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for over 30 years.
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