The 15th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest
The writing contest whose name is almost as long as the entries! Deadline: February 15, 2019. Read more
Features
This Postcard Life
Spiritual landscapes and unknowable people captured on film, used to convey a message. Read more
Asterism, Meet Dinkus
What do you call three asterisks in a row demarcating a section break? Read more
Chicken. Chicken. Pigeon. Crow.
A poem by James Witwicki and 5-year-old Anna from From the Heart of It All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Read more
From the Heart
Michal Kozlowski on From the Heart of It All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Read more
Beginning at the Beginning
To teach us how to read Don Quixote, a text so contrary to conventional literary tradition, the prologue itself needed to break from all traditions Read more
What Survives
My great-grandfather exists now only in memory, unacknowledged even by his tombstone Read more
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ADVICE FOR THE LIT-LORN
Can you tell me who said "The predominant fault of
the bad English encountered today is not the crude
vulgarism of the untaught but the blithe
irresponsibility of the taught"?
—Gary Franconio, en route to
Toronto
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