CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXVI Number 1	Spring 2026
Editors	Vincent Potter, and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Untitled by Maggie Hood
Poetry
Tom Wayman	Ballad of the Three Shells Stream
Jaza Mya	Earthbone
Alan Richards	Viriditas
Wade Bell	The Life, Death, and Laughter of Birds
Misha Solomon	Music
Amber McMillan	The Unknown-unknown Doesn’t Know Me Either
Neil Griffin	A History
G.D. Currie	The Janitor Shares His Thesis
Yvette LeClair	8 Minutes Left
James Owens	Proportion
Dakin Reed	A Murder of Boys
Tyler Engström	A Wonderful Day
dee Hobsbawn-Smith	We are Made of
Isobel Burke	Heir Transparent
Juleta Severson-Baker	Antidote for Hypervigilance Ecstasy
Olivia Van Guinn	Getting Head / Reading Beckett
Bertrand Bickersteth	Green Walters, How This Black Cowboy Died John Ware Theorizes Charley Pride’s Walk of Fame Star
Chris Johnson	Pile of Rocks Ghazal
George Elliott Clarke	Verte Langue Master of Horse: Diary Entry Pear Tree Pome Addendum
Keith Garebian	Avondale Mourner, Stratford A Musing
Fiction
Amanda Feder	Love or Die
Simon Gadke	Call Time
Evan Manning	Next Door
Elizabeth Obermeyer	Dining Alone
D.S. Stymeist	On a Night Road West of Revelstoke
Non-Fiction
Ali Bryan	Two Stupid Idiots
In Conversation
Micheline Maylor	Interview with George Elliott Clarke
Bruce Hunter	Interview with Kathryn MacDonald
Reviews
Frances Boyle	Toxemia by Christine McNair
Kathryn MacDonald	Long Exposure by Stephanie Bolster

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CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXV Number 2	Fall 2025
Editors	Vincent Potter, and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Bear Song by Johnny Mukwa
Poetry Winners
Michele M. Taylor	Splitwood Psalm: Pain in Conflict and Duality
Diana Hayes	Old Man’s Lament
Erin Emily Ann Vance	Alice
Joanna Lilley	Coots on Blue
Alec Whitford	The Spawning Kokanee
dee Hobsbawn-Smith	Grizzled
Mike Sluchinski	Rag Picker’s Bazaar
Prose Winners
Grace Mai Kwai	Accelerated Adolescence
Juliet Hill	Let The Sunshine In
Trent Lewin	Still Me, Still You
Megan Fennell	The Empress of Fort Macleod
Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award
Trent Lewin	The Rainbow
Poetry
Daryl Bruce	The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dissolving
Maxwell O’Toole	Dart
Kevin Spenst	Lamentations, Cleft For Me, The Martian Chronicles
Matthew King	On Losing My Voice
Michael Plante	Canadian Ice
Clayton Longstaff	Chinampa
Diana Hayes	Redbird
Kieran Keelaghan	Turkey Tail
Sheri Doyle	Galatea of Dark Windows
Josephine LoRe	Two Moons
Alec Whitford	The Eagle
Erin Emily Ann Vance	Prairie Lament
Memoir
Pete Estabrooks	A Wonderfully Misspent Youth
In Conversation
Laurence Hutchman	Interview with Robert Hilles

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CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXV Number 1	Spring 2025
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie, Vincent Potter, and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Memory and Thought by Janice Blaine
Poetry
Susan Alexander	Aristocrat
Virginia Boudreau	Burned Myrrh
Jennifer Bowering Delisle	Learning With My Son
Chris Clemens	Floating Rooftops
Marlene Grand Maître	Walking on the Names of the Dead Dust
Shana Ross	If Story of My Life in Time
Lee Thomas	Herringbone
Su Croll	Rage Farming
Kyle Flemmer	Creature Comfort Soft Shoulder
Giovanna Riccio	Learned Helplessness
Veronika Gorlova	American Sonnet for a Disappearing Country
Renée M. Sgroi	Anthropo(s)cene Apple
J. J. Steinfeld	Four Strangers Near the Weathered Statue in a Downtown Park
Tom Wayman	A Disingenuous Bean Offering
Richard Scarsbrook	Echoes
Dawn Macdonald	The Kitemaker
Kyo Lee	Last Words as Vows
Jim Nason	Randy Got A New Heart
Prose
Hilary Ball	Made to be Broken
Paulo da Costa	The Art of Sleeping
Emma Gammans	Of Two Worlds
Alexandra Mae Jones	Over Medium
Elizabeth Falcon	Like I Said
Tanya Rivonne Ward	It’s Temporary
Memoirs
Kim Fahner	Our Loved Houses
David Hyttenrauch	The Return of the (Burger) King

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Volume XXXIIII Number 2	Fall 2024
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Fallen Feather II by Huibo Hoo
Poetry Winners
Tonya Lailey	Bat Love Love on the Rocks
Mike Sluchinski	Lake Winnipeg
David Yerex Williamson	Blue
Jennifer Gossoo	Nôhkom
Laura Zacharin	This is How the Story Ends
Prose Winners
Blaine Newton	A Fall’s Reflection
Trent Lewin	The Arms of Village Vestigial
Julie Trimingham	This is our Serenity
Micheline Maylor Prize for Poetic Excellence
Elle Nyitrai	Old Wives’ Tales
Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award
Peter Hankins	Posterity of the Mad Duke
Poetry
Mary Vlooswyk	Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Mike Madill	Adrift Driftwood
Dan MacIsaac	Banjo
Eva Tihanyi	Anniversary
Jennifer Gossoo	Mother Animal
Stuart Ian Mckay	An Owl’s Wing Shapes Your Sunlit Sunday Chaos and Indecision Bring Forth a New Variety of Flower
Callista Markotich	Moose Hunger in Atlantic Time Black & Blue
Maureen Scott Harris	Summoned
Keith Garebian	Congenital Stranger Half and Half
David Yerex Williamson	Kiskisotowin Awasisak
David Martin	Target Practice
Bert Almon	The Molyneux Globe
Mike Sluchinski	When a Uniform Sheds a Tear
Essay
Tanis MacDonald	Performance Studies: a Geek History
In Conversation
Joshua Pantalleresco	Interview with Dwayne Clayden
Reviews
Catherine Owen	Jesus is a Voyeur by Bret Crowle
Mary Vlooswyk	The Oneironaut 01 by Sheri-D Wilson
Frances Boyle	Blood Belies by Ellen Chang-Richardson
Megan Nega	Take the Compass by Maureen Hynes

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Volume XXXIIII Number 1	Spring 2024
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Head in my Hands by Dana Pitts
Poetry
A. F. Moritz	An Angel Where Vagueness
Adrienne King	Nuclear War is the Greatest Aphrodisiac I Know
Bret Crowle	To My Unsuccessful First Trimester
Andrea Scott	In Which I Explain Why I Still Bother
Matthew Stepanic	It Must Not Have Been Easy
Frances Boyle	Hellion
Connie Yu	Paintings of Lived Dreams
Cort Bulloch	Traffic Lights Still Change Though the City is Empty
Derek Webster	Communion Walter Benjamin in Moscow
Erin Wilson	Anise
Harold Hoefle	Cross Country Runner
Chris Hutchinson	Against Translation
John Barton	Space Race
Lisa Comeau	Rat Bardo
Matthew Heinz	Airport Code
Tanja Bartel	Fishhook
Pujita Verma	Fish is the Water’s Queen
Tyler B. Perry	Two Swords
David Martin	Rhyme Decay
Tyler Engström	Being a Proud and Good Father
Catherine Owen	Pantoum of the Wettest July
Meryem Yildiz	Back Alley Aubade
Prose
Stephen Sinisi	The Miracle of Santa Maria
Erica Evelyn Simmonds	Oscar Grew A Tree
Joanne Fung	Neither Blood Nor Milk
Cheryl McNamara	The Map
Casey Wallace	Is There Anyone Awake in This Room Who Can See the Clock and Tell Me What Time it is?
Preston Lang	The Brill Bend
Robin North	Night Shift
In Conversation
Bruce Hunter	Interview with Mary Graham
Reviews
Giovanna Riccio	Galestro by Bruce Hunter
Skylar Kay	Cocktail by Lisa Alward
Frances Boyle	Siteseeing by Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt
Kendall Bistretzan	The Definition of Beautiful by Charlotte Bellows
Geoff Martin	End Times by Michelle Syba
Steven Ross Smith	Kink Bands by David Martin
Richard Harrison	Grounded by Susan McMaster

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Featuring 2022/23 Prose and Poetry Contest Winners

 

Volume XXXIII Number 2	Fall 2023
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Warrior I am by Mitchell Brown
Poetry Winners
Alec Whitford	Ode to My Father
Ronna Bloom	Prayer for the Day
David Martin	Of Her Eyes
Alec Whitford	The Punk Hoodie
Prose Winners
R.J. Hurl	Helios. or Goodbye. Goodnight.
Jonathan Van Elslander	The River
Kaitlin Ruether	Coral is Dead
Julie Trimingham	Bunny
Murgatroyd Monaghan	The Newborn Photographer
Daryl Sneath	What Makes Us Love
Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award
Ashley-Rae Carter-Wells	Witch, Please
Poetry
Rayanne Haines	42 Facts About Hummingbirds
Jonathan Greenhause	A Retiree Lost in 3 Sonnets
Miles Forrester	From Slow Town Arias: Like a Halted Pirouette
Ian FitzGerald	The Stiffer the Bristle, the Better the Brush (off) Depth
Atma Frans	I Picture My Father That Day With My Dove
Mike Sluchinski	Honeyflight (Nipawin Bound) Stopping for 2 Hells Angels at Borden Before Town
Emily Cann	Inflorescence, Fig Wasp
Jana Tzanakos	Me Time
Leanne Shirtliffe	Ode to Prairie Hotels
Barbara Pelman	On the Canal, Tortuguero
Diana Hayes	Otter Bay Squalls Postcards From the Skeena
Steven Ross Smith	Afloat
Ronna Bloom	Restaurants I Have Cried In
Lorne Daniel	The Thing
Mary Vlooswyk	Your White Wolf: A Cento
Michelle Yeo	That Day in East Sooke
Essay
Patti Edgar	Coyote City
Reviews
Mary Vlooswyk	Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Kim Fahner	It Begins in Salt by Natalie Meisner
Skylar Kay	How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
Megan Nega	How to Hold a Pebble by Jaspreet Singh
Pearl Pirie	Openwork and Limestone by Frances Boyle
Yvonne Blomer	Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children by Kerry Ryan
Skylar Kay	Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green

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Volume XXXIII Number 1	Spring 2023
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Mask by Martins Deep
Poetry
Neil Griffin	Bonini’s Apiary Coyote Sonnet
Richard Harrison	The Elephant in the Kitchen
s.j. Shalgaire 12	Good Wives Tailgate Longing
Matthew King	Whirl
Edward Dewar	High Noon
Bruce Hunter	Dark Water: An Anti-Pastoral in the Key of Dystopia
Joe Enns	After the Heat Dome
Bren Simmers	Ice Fishing
Jennifer LoveGrove	How to Conjure Hakamiah, and Other Uses for Malachite
dee Hobsbawn-Smith	Departure
Kerry Ryan	Known
Bill Howell	Escape From the Beach
Tom Wayman	The Mouth Under Pigeon Mountain
Steve Noyes	Country Music
Roger Nash	Cats Everlasting
Elana Wolff	After-cast
Callista Markotich	Off the Grid
Janice Colman	Falcon in a Waistcoat
Kerry Rawlinson	Montreal Summer
Lucas Warren	The Apocolypse is Weird
Juleta Severson-Baker	Dog People
Anna Yin	Moon’s Divine Wine
Michael Penny	Higher Being
Prose
Sarah Butson	Flora
Andrea Gunraj	Her Worship Wang Shu Chen
Chris Kuriata	Thud Turns 25: An Oral History of Canada’s Most Enduring Comic Strip
Tyler Hein	Mouse Trap
Sophie Guillas	Hometown Cook(ing/ed)
Essay
Ariel Gordon	Rotten
Reviews
Beth Everest	Emptying the Ocean by Kim Fahner
Jaclyn Pahl	Pilgrim to No Country by Anvesh Jain
Keith Garebian	Kiss the Red Stairs by Marsha Lederman
Mary Vlooswyk	Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female by Tanis MacDonald
Annie Wesko	Letters to Singapore by Kelly Kaur The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
Kendall Bistretzan	There are Wolves Here Too by Niall Howell
Skylar Kay	Instructions for the Drowning by Steve Heighton Hail, The Invisible Watchman by Alexandra Oliver
In Conversation
Skylar Kay	Interview with Casey Plett

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Featuring 2021/22 Prose and Poetry Contest Winners.

 

Volume XXXII Number 2	Fall 2022
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Peace by Bob Walker-Pursley
Poetry Winners
1st Place:	Tonya Lailey for The Garden Gnome Falls for a Northern Flicker
2nd Place:	Kaitlyn Chaloux forCrow Offerings
3rd Place:	David Martin for flows south we start
Honourable Mentions:
Danielle Hubbard	“Lee Gabriel or: What my parents would have named me if I were a boy”
D.S. Stymeist	“Divers at the Community Pool”
Barbara Pelman	Quaker Service, Argenta
Prose Winners
1st Place:	Rayne Weinstein for Cremulator
2nd Place:	J. Oberti for The Journal
3rd Place:	Neil McKinnon for Some Things Cannot be Fixed
Honourable Mention:
Kendall Bistretzan	Bedfellows
Micheline Maylor Prize for Poetic Excellence
Matt Sutton	I’m Pretty Sure I’m Zen
Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award
Andreas Lohstraeter	This Could Be Anywhere
Poetry
Diana Hayes	Siddhartha at Paia
Amanda Merritt	The Measure
Alec Whitford	The Lupines
Bret Crowle	How Will the Damaged Children See Heaven?
Danielle Hubbard	Zoe Barker
Keith Worthington	Athabasca Falls
Dave Margoshes	Metallurgy
Ian FitzGerald	Ear Drums
Juleta Severson-Baker	Mother of Son
Lynn Tait	Confessions of a Heavy Drinker
Marsha Barber	Expat in Vietnam
Shagun Sharma	Forgive Me (laments for my love)
Mary Vlooswyk	An Origin Story
Murray Reiss	Keystone
Loren M. DeVito	Rhythms
Samantha Annie Bernstein	Civics Lesson
Susanna Cupido	Picture It
	Synecdoche
Prose
Shirlee Smith Matheson	The Protégée
Essay
Shane Neilson	The Missing Vision in the Visionary: An Essay on Paul Vermeersch’s Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995 – 2020
Reviews
Ariel Gordon	Bread & Water by dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Beth Everest	Being Here: the Chemistry of Startle by Barry Dempster
Stephen Morrissey	J’Accuse …! (Poem versus Silence), by George Elliott Clarke
Angeline Schellenberg	Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions by Wendy Donawa
Bret Crowle	Resurrection Fail by John Wall Barger
Bret Crowle	Transcribing Moonlight by Skylar Kay
Vincent Potter	I Wish I Could Be Peter Falk by Paul Zits
In Conversation
Rosemary Griebel	The Quiet in Me: an Interview with Lorna Crozier

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This is a Special Double Issue.

We apologize the current issue has been delayed due to a paper shortage. It is in process at the printers now and will be out ASAP.

 

Volume XXXII Number 1	Spring 2022
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Soemyint Winn
Poetry
Mark Sampson	The Mosquito’s Aphrodisiac
D.S. Stymeist	Ode to a Pair of Song Sparrows
Anthony Purdy	Scuff Marks
Adam Lawrence	When the Shine Comes Off
Catherine Owen	No One Can Eat So Many Apples
Mary Vlooswyk	A Delicate Impression
Jenna Magee	The Brit
John Barton	Donkey Brain
Bänoo Zan	The Goblet of Jamshid
Beth Goobie	In Praise of the Gloomy Day
Brent Raycroft	By Fire
Zachery Cooper	Sing, Cricket. Sing.
Susan Haldane	Perseids
Linda Crosfield	How Smartly the World is Stitched Together
Christine Minnery	Amplexus
Prose
Benjamin Hackman	Ask and Ye Shall Receive
Amy Kenny	Birds
Megan Callahan	Cadaver Dog
Dorothy Jane Kavanaugh	Schlep-1944
Marie Hoy-Kenny	Chanel and Penelope That Time We Lit Up the City
Non-Fiction
Shagun Sharma	Suffering: A Sombre Souvenir
In Conversation
Catherine Graham	Interview with Tracy K. Smith Interview with Victoria Chang Interview with Yusuf Saadi
Reviews
Angeline Schellenberg	Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions by Wendy Donawa If, When by Bren Simmers
Annie Wesko	You Look Good For Your Age, An Anthology by Rona Altrows, Editor
Shelley McAneeley	Permanent Astonishment: a Memoir by Tomson Highway

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE
Volume XXXII Number 1	Spring 2022
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Gary Barwin
Poetry
Bill Howell	Breaking Cover
David Martin	Petrified Willow Leaves
Spencer Folkins	Poem for Burning Poem for Burning Poem for Burning III
Jade Wallace	Watermeadow
John Barton	Biome Tapestry
Alden Wallace	Heat Dome, July 2021
Tanis MacDonald	Peck Out My Heart and Eat It
Spencer Legebokoff	Seven Point
Rayanne Haines	Birds Such as Waxwings and Robins Dine on Them
Angela Waldie	Visible Ghosts Lepus Americanus (Snowshoe hare)
Zoe Dickinson	Hope for the Human Race A Poem About Sea Urchins
Brian Day	Snow White and We Keep Hankering for More
Maryam Gowralli	Spill Into the Elbow River
Tom Wayman	Leaf Bats
Prose
Alanna Marie Scott	Above the Bottleneck
Ella Pfalzgraff	One Day All of This Will Crumble
Elizabeth Falcon	Snaring Rabbits
Mary Johnson	Last House
Non-Fiction
Kyra Lark Koustrup	You and the Grass

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Volume XXXI Number 2	Fall 2021
Editors	Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor
Cover	Matthew O’Reilly
Poetry Winners
Matthew King	Two-Faced Kitten, and Other Freaks of Nature
Michael Fraser	Things to Do Around Edmonton When You’re Black
Bret Crowle	Drumheller
Lisa Richter	What the Fool Remembers
Prose Winners
Zilla Jones	Pie Jesu
Calvin Minions	Sasha Lived on a Farm
Neil C. Griffin	The Bus to the Massacre Site Leaves in Ten Minutes
Dan Auger	Blood Memory
Micheline Maylor Prize for Poetic Excellence
Laura Zacharin	Please Don’t Put Your Leftover Lunch in the Chat Box
Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award
Bruce Meyer	Pas de Deux
Micah Jansen	The Slightly Awkward and Mildly Entertaining Tale of a Low-Grade Lifeguard
Poetry
Dan MacIsaac	Bull Kelp Chameleon
Cheryl White	At My Back
Matt Sutton	If I Was at Home I Wouldn’t Need This Drink in the First Place A Letter to Bukowski From a Previous Lover on Her Death Bed
Alec Whitford	The Whiffle Ball
Shannon Barry	Tendinitis
Marlene Grand Maître	Riven Heeding Water’s Voice
Russell Thornton	While You Brushed Your Hair
Jonathan Greenhause	The Day Abraham Lincoln & I Went Bowling
Brian Day	The Fisherman’s Wife A Tapestry
Mary Ann Moore	A Ceremony in the Forest
Barbara Pelman	Lost Names
Joanna Drummond	Will-o’-wisp
Zack Beer	(non) Binary
Tonya Lailey	Don’t Bring Me Flowers
Lynn Tait	The Enemies I Cannot See
Michael Fraser	Solstice
Lisa Richter	Three Years, Two Months and Twelve Days After My Father Dies Overseas
Essay
Micheline Maylor	Confessional Poets Now
Reviews
Annie Wesko	If Sylvie Had Nine Lives by Leona Theis Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio
Catherine Owen	First by Arleen Paré
Vincent Potter	Shelter for the Damned by Mike Thorn
Skylar Kay	For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe by Gary Barwin All the Animals on Earth by Mark Sampson Music From a Strange Planet by Barbara Black

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