

Places Like These is a book by Lauren Carter. In 2021, Heighton released his first album, The Devil's Share. He received the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry for The Waking Comes Late. His recent books include Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos, a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and Selected Poems 1983-2020. His next work, The Ecstasy of Skeptics, was shortlisted for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. He debuted in 1989 with Stalin's Carnival, a poetry collection that earned him the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Steven Heighton was an award-winning Ontario novelist, short story writer and poet. The key to Steven Heighton's success as a Canadian poet and author is staying humble and true to the art In another, a man fixated by stories of freak accidents ends up bearing the brunt of one himself. In one, a man remembers his father's instructions for how to save someone who is drowning, but then finds himself conflicted when the moment arrives to act.

Instructions for the Drowning is a short story collection that explores themes of love and fear, delusion and idealism and the ironic ways we come up short despite trying our very best. Instructions for the Drowning is a book by Steven Heighton.
