Issue 3, Week 3
Meg Freer interviews Dorothy Nielsen, Liv Ross reviews Josh Nadeau, and more!
Dear Traces readers & subscribers,
We’re back with more new writing from Issue 3: All Saints 2025! Be sure to share, subscribe, or comment to let us know what you think of the new issue.
Special Feature: Excerpt from Daniel Cowper’s Kingdom of the Clock
Excerpt, Kingdom of the Clock
Afternoon at the beach
3:45pm on a May afternoon in a coastal city. An aspiring playwright from the prairies, Vanessa has just learned her first script will be produced. Exultant, she walks by a beach, and watches an old sailor, Enoch, playing with his young son after school.
New Poetry
New poems from Burl Horniachek, Lori Vos, Jessica Walters, & Mirjana Villeneuve.
Interview with Dorothy Nielsen
We’re excited to launch a new interview series at Traces to showcase our Advisory Board members. For Issue 3, Contributing Editor Meg Freer interviewed Advisory Board Member Dorothy Nielsen about her work as a writer, professor, and musician.
The Heart, Soul, Mind, and Body of a Poem: A Conversation with Dorothy Nielsen
Dorothy Nielsen’s lifelong engagement with the arts began early when she was a cellist and cello teacher before earning a PhD in literature and becoming a professor. She has authored essays and taught courses on topics from nature poetry through Christian writers and Canadian fiction. Her poems appear in many journals including
Book Review: Liv Ross reviews Josh Nadeau
Book Review: "Room for Good Things to Run Wild" by Josh Nadeau
Room for Good Things to Run Wild by Josh Nadeau (Thomas Nelson, 2025)
Stay tuned next week for the final publications from Issue 3!
Happy reading,
The Traces team.