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Higher Math

Higher Math

Our 2017 Short Forms Contest Honourable Mention. Higher Math I. I didn’t think it could happen again, after the burst tubes, emergency surgery, parents rushing north on a chartered plane. A year after, Janka visits, playing grandma, turning our kitchen fragrant,...

In-Between Days

In-Between Days

By recounting the unresolved hurt of her past, and facing the uncertainty of her future, Harrison—who was diagnosed with advanced metastatic breast cancer in 2013—has found one way to reclaim power from the “bogeyman” that is her illness. “It’s the unspoken that is...

Songs of Exile

Songs of Exile

Powerful in its brevity, Songs of Exile explores displacement, intimacy, and fear in short, chaotic bursts. The poems that populate Songs of Exile, Bänoo Zan’s first English collection of poetry, aren’t autobiographical; however, they reveal a deep empathy for those...

Willie

Willie

Every night, you sleep on my neck. Contentment seeps through our chakras. Every night, you sleep on my neck. Contentment seeps through our chakras. Your serene breaths and dreams of banana chips and walnut pieces and slow pats on the head, in that flat little plateau...

Announcing Our 2017 Short Forms Contest Shortlist!

Announcing Our 2017 Short Forms Contest Shortlist!

We're excited to announce the shortlisted pieces from our inaugural 2017 Short Forms Contest! After reviewing over 200 pieces of 500 words or less, here is the shortlist of shorts, as determined by our esteemed judge Jen Sookfong Lee. We're excited to announce the...

The Weight of Ice

The Weight of Ice

They drove me for miles until the ground was a table of white. We passed a fox licking itself with such ferocity if we were ever to turn back I swear, its hide’d been bloody. They drove me for miles until the ground was a table of white. We passed a fox licking itself...

Castle

Castle

Low dirt path parts Loch Awe as a helix unbinding. We walk like thistled mutants to Kilchurn ruins. Low dirt path parts Loch Awe as a helix unbinding. We walk like thistled mutants to Kilchurn ruins. Us more ice and pine sap than salt or lanolin, but whisky, yes,...

Cover Art Contest 2016: Honourable Mention

Cover Art Contest 2016: Honourable Mention

Congratulations to Slavka Kolesar for winning the honourable mention with her illustration, Metamorphosis! Metamorphosis by Slavka KolesarMetamorphosis by Slavka Kolesar2014; watercolour, colour pencil, and graphite10.16 x 15.24 cm

Announcing Our Cover Art Contest 2016 Shortlist!

Announcing Our Cover Art Contest 2016 Shortlist!

We're excited to announce the shortlisted artworks from our second Annual Cover Art Contest 2016! After reviewing over 250 artworks from over 100 artists, here is the shortlist as determined by our esteemed judges--Hangama Amiri, and Jillian Tamaki. We're excited to...

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