George Zancola

George Zancola,writer

George Zancola is a writer of poetry and short fiction focusing on the marginalized in modern society. He has published in the Humber Literary Review, Wordgathering, Nothing Without Us, various InkWell WorkShop Anthologies, Secret Handshake/Books. He is a past recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Grant and a Diaspora Dialogue Scholarship. He has also published a volume of poetry entitled A Big Wheel Went Up A Hill. He lives in Toronto.

Balancing the Books — Volume 10, Issue 3

In Balancing the Books, George Zancola writes with gleeful, elastic absurdity. A teenage boy rehearses book-carrying in front of a mirror and seeks a little brother’s solemn endorsement—and somehow, in that small, ridiculous theatre of longing, captures something true and tender about the terrifying first steps toward love.