File contains drafts of Budge Wilson's short story anthology "Fractures" (2002), including "Brothers and Sisters," "Carlotta's Search," "Confusion," "Cry Baby," "Fathers," "Like a Water Lily," "Mothers," and "Two Diaries."
Subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories included in Budge Wilson's anthology "Fractures: Family Stories." The short stories included in this anthology are as follows: "Like a water lily," "Two diaries," "Fathers," "Dreams," "Confusion," "Crybaby," "Mr. Manuel Jenkins," "My War," "Brothers and Sisters," "Carlotta's Search," "Mothers," and "The Metaphor."
File contains the final mock up of "The Fear of Angelina Domino," by Budge Wilson with illustrations by Eugenie Fernandes, published by Stoddart Kids of Toronto, Ontario (2000).
File contains a handwritten draft and typed draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Fear," which was included in her anthology "Friendships." The handwritten draft was originally titled "Afraid of Everything."
File contains two copies of Volume 1, Number 1 of Fathom, a creative writing journal published by the Dalhousie University Department of English. File also contains two copies of Volume 1, Number 2.
File contains a draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Fathers." This story was included in an anthology of short stories by Budge Wilson entitled "Fractures: Family Stories" (2002).
File contains a draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Escape Route." This story was included in an anthology of short stories by Budge Wilson entitled "Friendships" (2006).
File contains a typescript and published photocopy of short story Dreams by Budge Wilson. This short story was published in an anthology "The Dandelion Garden" by Philomel Books, New York, 1995.
File contains typescript and handwritten drafts of short stories, including "Doctor's Daughter," "The Excursion," "For Marian" (eulogy for Marian Lacey), "Adventures in an Automobile," "The Indian Connection," and "Song of the Brook." The file also contains a poem by Joyce Barkhouse, "After School"; a story written by her nephew David, entitled "Grandfather 15 June 09"; and some correspondence regarding Marian Lacey and Margaret Atwood (nee Killam). A photograph of eight children (Keith Porter, Lorna, Joyce, Fred, Bernie, Boyd Burgess, Kay, and Margaret) at a culvert on the North Mountain Railway is also included.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Donna Morrissey that document her work as a creative writer. Records types include manuscripts (print and electronic), page proofs, illustrations, digital photographs, and published copies of her novels, scripts and short stories. There is also e-mail and printed correspondence, press material and book reviews, research materials and workshop resources.
File contains documents and photographs related to A Saga of the Dark One. Photographs depict ships in the Halifax waterfront with many people standing around them, possibly for the Tall Ships Festival. Documents include typed pages regarding vikings. Magazines including Maclean's and Horizons Canada, both with articles on vikings.
File contains three annotated, typed drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "Dancing in the Streets," which was included in the anthology "Royal Family Fables" (Edmonton: Tree Frog Press, 1988).
File contains a notebook and notepad with a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Dancing in the Streets," formerly titled "The Closet Dancer," which was published in the anthology "Royal Family Fables" (1988).