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A journal of ideas.
Printed ten times a year. Published weekly on Substack.
Canada’s Best Literary Magazine 2025.

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Many thanks to The British Columbia Review by Natalie Virginia Lang for this wonderful reading of
NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES
by Michelle Willms

@mishwillms
@thebcreview
@nvlang.writer

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Join us at @paragraphebookstore for the launch of the funny, endearing, queer, witty, surprising, sweet, soaring
IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW
by @jeanmifortier
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

#queerfiction #translation #montreal #quebecfiction

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Literary Review of Canada
October 2026

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A review of In Fertility appears in the Literary Review of Canada’s November 2026 issue and is available online. Thank you to reviewer Lisa Gregoire for her thoughtful take! 📖

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Thanks to @librairieleuguelionne for a wonderful launch of FRAGILE LIKE A BOMB by Catherine Fred Lavarenne, translated by Natalia Hero.

#MeToo #canlit #MontrealFiction #Fiction #PoliticalFiction #Quebec #translation

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Proud to have TWO titles in this year's October list from CBC Books.

MISSY WHYNAUGHT by Elizabeth Ball
IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW by Jean-Michel Fortier, Translation by Jonathan Kaplansky

#Canlit #Montrealstories #Fiction #Translation

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Thanks to all who came to the wonderful launch at @depanneurcafe for MISSY WHYNAUGHT by Elizabeth Ball.
We had a blast!
#fiction
#montrealstories
#cuba #newbrunswick

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A personal favourite coloured pencil piece I made a few years back ended up on this year’s @reviewcanada September cover ♥️♥️ So happy with the end result!

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Read all about the new Edward Burtynsky biography by James King in the October issue of @reviewcanada. The full review can be found at the link in bio! 🔗

📖 Full details on the biography and where to get your own copy can also be found at the link in bio.

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Always a pleasure working for the wonderful Literary Review of Canada! And an especially fun time when it’s a cover I’ve been assigned to draw. Editor Kyle Wyatt and I had a chat over some pints a while back, and chatting about our lives and interests ended up leading to the idea for this cover. Summarized, the brief Kyle gave me was: a visual love letter to the printed word and the tech that made it possible. Instantly my mind went to my time working at @hatchshowprint in Nashville. I designed posters and operated antique printing presses every day for about 2 years in a 130+ year old letterpress shop that was frequently described as “a living museum”. The workhorse of the shop is a Meihle 29, a printing press capable of spitting out thousands of sheets an hour. It’s about the size of a minivan, and usually takes two operators to run it. When running it looks rather Wonka-esque. I felt like this piece of machinery featuring two (of the many) talented printers who showed me the ropes at Hatch, was a great way to hit the brief. Sorry I couldn’t include all my Hatch Show Print mentors in this illustration, there’s a lot of you! But Dan Brown, the now ~90 (and just recently retired) press operator who had been running the machine since the 1980s, and @lordymercy , one of the sharpest printmakers/musicians/banana-pudding-bakers I’ve ever met who embodies everything good about Tennessee, felt like an excellent representation of where the tradition and function of these machines overlap with and begin to make way for the art and the printmaking revival. If you’re still with me after all this, I got one thing to say! Go buy a book, go buy a print, go buy a magazine! Touch things, keep them, and think about all of the people with specialized skills and niche passions who had to work together in order to bring such a thing into existing. Thanks to LRC and Kyle for having me on board for this one, and thanks to Hatch for the many lessons learned during a time in my life when I truly needed all of them!

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For this month's issue of @reviewcanada, I reviewed Susannah Smith's beautiful novel, The Alchemy of Paradise. It's one of those books that doesn't fit nearly into one genre, as much poetry and essay as it is fiction.

Link in the comments.

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👇Read the story beyond the surface...

Caged and Cross-Eyed
by Robin Gittens

A #poem recalling early remnants of my sojourn with stigma while growing up in the Caribbean country of Barbados.

This poem was recently accepted by the National Organization for Albinism and Hyperpigmentation (@NOAH) for publication in their upcoming magazine, Albinism Insight.

My reach is slow, yet it’s growing — I’m honoured to respond to my community. Our voices matter too.

Have you or someone you know suffered the wrath of stigma during childhood? #Trauma comes in many forms, and the healing process isn’t always easy: to this day, I continue to hear echoes of the jeers and sneers from those years in school, from elementary to tertiary.

As always, writing poetry helps me reclaim my POWER.

How do you reclaim yours?

What did this poem make you feel? I welcome your thoughts or gentle critique.

Looking for a poetic tale about grief, loss, betrayal, caregiving, and love?

🔗Check the link in my bio! Download my FREE chapbook: “Those Ten Days”

👉 Like and follow for more!

#Albinism #PoetryHeals #ReclaimYourPower

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@writerstrust
@canadianpoets
@poetry_society
@friesenpress

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