Patrick Roscoe would like to acknowledge everyone who has written in to express frustration with the prolonged wait for the next Patrick Roscoe book. Please be patient a little longer, he asks. When he does begin to publish again, Patrick Roscoe promises, there will be a book just for the fans. In the meantime, new Patrick Roscoe fiction is always appearing in one literary magazine or another. (Check this Notícias page for details). Also, a sneak peak at a recently completed Patrick Roscoe project will very soon be posted on the Sample page of this site.

A new Patrick Roscoe story "Swimming Horses" is featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Event: The Douglas College Review.

Other new Patrick Roscoe stories have been accepted for publication by The Antigonish Review and Wascana Review.

Patrick Roscoe has been awarded Second Prize (First Runner Up) in the 2009 Prism International Fiction Contest for his short story, "Chiggers."

With this prize, he becomes the only Canadian writer to have received every short fiction award in the country.

Patrick Roscoe's book-length manuscript The History of a Hopeful Heart (containing a half-dozen of his other prize-winning stories, in addition to "Chiggers") remains unpublished.

Fall 2008/Winter 2009

A Patrick Roscoe story, "Poppies Always Fall," appears in the current issue of The Grove Review (US).

Production has begun on the printing of a newly designed edition of Patrick Roscoe's cult classic novel God's Peuliar Care for a Spring 2009 publication.

Fall 2007/Winter 2008

Production of The History of a Hopeful Heart has been suspended as a result of the sale of the book's American publisher. New Patrick Roscoe stories currently appear, or are forthcoming from The London Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review and Queen's Quarterly.

Two of Patrick Roscoe's most elusive new stories -- "Fire In the Forest" and "Candle In the Cave" -- are being published together in the Summer 2008 issue of Descant. These twinned pieces are part of a larger sequence, "Chosen", which is dispersed among three recently completed three book-length manuscripts. While Patrick Roscoe has little idea what any of these "Chosen" pieces might mean, he suspects that, like all his work, they are concerned with hunger.

Patrick Roscoe has been invited to attend a conference, on the Canary Islands in March 2008, which will explore the relationship between cinema and literature, and which will include a screening of the film "Touch", a discussion of how the film relates to the Patrick Roscoe story that is its source, as well as one of Patrick Roscoe's live performance of his fiction.

Fall 2006/Winter 2007

The History of a Hopeful Heart moves through editing and into production for publication as Patrick Roscoe's seventh book.

Spring/Summer 2006

Patrick Roscoe will publish his next book of fiction The History of a Hopeful Heart in the U.S. with The Haworth Press in 2007. He continues to work on a new novel.

Fall 2005/Winter 2006

Patrick Roscoe is currently completing his next novel.

Summer 2005

Patrick Roscoe is currently working on a suite of new African childhood stories.

Patrick Roscoe fiction is forthcoming from North Dakota Quarterly, as well as from Horsefly.

A non-fiction "communiqué" ("The Secret Language", from The Lonely Dream) appears in the Summer 2005 issue of Prairie Fire.