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Hollie Adams
Dispatches

A Partial List of Inconvenient Truths

Hollie Adams

In search of a big picture at the end of the singular world

Jonathan Heggen
The Boy and the Self

Review of "The Boy and the Heron" directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Michael Hayward
Conversations with the past

Review of "Conversations with Khahtsahlano, 1932–1954" reissued by Massy Books and Talonbooks.

Maryanna Gabriel
More Than one way to hang a man

Review of "Hangman: The True Story of Canada’s First Executioner" by Julie Burtinshaw.

Peggy Thompson
Rollicking and honest: LIKE Me

Review of "Queers Like Me" by Michael V. Smith.

Helen Godolphin
Pinball wizardry

Review of "Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game" written and directed by Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg.

Meandricus
Wordy goodness

Review of "Rearrangements" by Natan Last, published in The New Yorker December 2023.

Michael Hayward
Circled By Wolves

Review of "Cabin Fever" by Anik See.

Cornelia Mars
On MOtherhood: Transforming Perceptions

Review of "Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood" by Lucy Jones.

fiction

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Toby Sharpe

Satellite

Toby Sharpe

I don’t know where a person can go when they disappear, apart from underwater.

Paul Dhillon
Short Stories
Severance

I had screwed up in making us blood brothers. Outside of basketball, we were different

Kate Cayley
Short Stories
Monsters

 The vines were biding their time, full of life force that did not care about her or how sorry she was

Angélique Lalonde
Short Stories
Lady with the Big Head Chronicle

I am wholly unimportant—just a witness to her shapeshifting, possessed of a voice that can be compelled into song by the land’s unfolding

David Huebert
The Business of Salvation

I watch the lights slip and slur on the headpond and think down, toward the dam, the embankment and the long drop of the spillway where the water rests, whirled and stunned

CHARLES BROWN
Things That Scatter

Half a breath is all it takes, in or out.

Spencer Lucas Oakes
Bloom of Youth

You can keep going, the moon said, if you want to.

DAVID CLERSON
City Within

The rooms I imagined repeating endlessly, with me at the centre.

K'ARI FISHER
Don't Worry, Leonardo Has a Plan

Being a warrior princess is a lot like being an archetype of human potential.

poetry

Sarah Wolfson
Poetry

The Gravedigger

Sarah Wolfson

"... I remembered / the week the fireflies dissolved into crickets. / We'd just lived through the big thing ..."

Nofel
In Arabic

Arabic would’ve never been were it not for our eyes

Em Dial
Emetophobia

bonding our sneakers / together through a fluid / no longer hers but shared

EVELYN LAU
End Times

Distance blurred detail, so all that was visible / in the mysterious vapour were armloads of sparkle / he hauled as if from the sea

JADE WALLACE
Drinking Game with Ghosts

I have never been hit by a car / that I could not see coming.

Jane Shi
Knot after knot of tomorrow

Two poems by Jane Shi

Owen Torrey
Short Talk on Summer Ending

... You and I / tried. We tried walking down a street once in fall. / It was night, half light, we found ourselves finding / ...

Molly Cross-Blanchard
Here's the thing

"... Blood dripped down my chin. The light / left. After, I googled what it all meant—death, / capitalism, Steffie’s stuffed bunny ..."

Sneha Subramanian Kanta
A Love Poem, Also a Physics Poem

"... I showed you / a video of faint sunsets dawning from / Ochil Hills, and my momentum when / travelling upward, against gravity ..."

photography

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Zinnia Naqvi
Dear Nani

Gender performance and colonial mimicry through the family archive

Leanne Dunic
On Lake Saiko

At the edge of Japan's super natural forest

TANVI BHATIA
Close Range

The Photography of Ronnie Tessler.

MICHEL HUNEAULT
With a View

Border photography along the 49th parallel.

SYLVIA TRAN
To Belong

"Every time we visit my great-grandma's grave, we close our eyes and follow her footsteps across the sea, and back again."

CHRISTINE HAGEMOEN
Latency

Photos of Vancouver Chinatown taken in 1956 by a mystery photographer and developed 50 years later.

Michał Kozłowski
Synchronicity

30 years of Fabrice Strippoli’s photographs.

JONAH SAMSON
Yes Yes We're Magicians

A selection of sourced images from Jonah Samson's book, "Yes Yes We're Magicians," the title of which is taken from a passage of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, "Waiting for Godot."

comics

Luca Cara Seccafien
Comics

She Came In Through the Window

Luca Cara Seccafien

After the neighbour moved to Europe, Lumpy moved in full time.

Onjana Yawnghwe
Long Lost Lido

How could this story, which loomed so large in my world, be lost to history? 

Yoko Oji Kikuchi
Yoko's Adventures in Vancouver

A map in two tiny epochs

Eleanor Panno
The Broch

"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."

Emily Chou
My Dad's Brother

(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).

Debra Rooney
Weird Jobs

Who puts those little stickers on the apples in the grocery store?

ALEXANDER FORBES, KRIS BERTIN
Cursed Hermit

Don't mess with Madame Larmer's mojo.

Nicola Winstanley
Wall Spirits

Nicola Winstanley's comic on hearing spirits in the walls at a foster when she was young.

Eve Corbel
Greeting Cards for Tiny Occasions

Eve Corbel creates a set of greeting cards to celebrate life's best and worst mundane moments.