Fiction

Sea Glass

Going down to the Lakeshore with Dad was a Sunday treat that summer.

Camouflage and Fame

I want to be the first enby hunter.

DonJuan 3000

A prickle of moisture appears on Lucy’s faint peachy moustache that she doesn’t wax because it is part of her, and all her parts are worth keeping.
Hybrid/Experimental

A space for exploring experimental and multi-form writing in combination with disciplines including (but not limited to) visual art, mixed-media, science and technology, audio, performance, and video; a space of endless possibility.

listening to the universe: meteorite

Withdraw

Poetry

Sciatica Ornithology

the start of something / a puffed-out robin’s chest
Essays

Jane

Yatyee sprints as she wills her legs to make bigger strides.

Thoughts from a Beirut Party Bus: Cultural Performance as Resistance

The bus drove past the port and someone lowered the volume. The professor spoke up frantically, pointing outside the window.
Interviews

On Women's Time: A Conversation with Heidi Reimer

Heidi Reimer’s writing is centered on the lives of women “bent on breaking free of what they’re given to create what they yearn for.”

The Mirage of Who is Keeping the Dream Alive: A Conversation with Julianna A.S.

Julianna and I agreed to meet at a local Toronto cafe called Neo Coffee and Bar, where we recorded this interview on a lovely, bright Wednesday afternoon.
Reviews

Funny and Tragic: A Review of Soft Serve by Allison Graves

St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador-based author Allison Graves’s first short story collection, Soft Serve, feels like one Canadian coming-of-age story that has been divided amongst a menu of characters.

Between War and Identity

Vuong’s first poetry book, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, tackles the burning weight of dragging an endless war with him everywhere he goes.

Literature as Bloodsport: A Review of Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s Kilworthy Tanner

At a time when literary feuds mostly amount to bitter tweets, Toronto author Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s latest novel, Kilworthy Tanner, crackles with hot-tempered writers brushing up against each other at events, erupting into scuffles, and devising elaborate schemes to sabotage their rivals.

A junction of blossoming ideas: A review of I’mpossible collab and G

Collaborative poetry projects have experienced a surge in popularity recently.