Photo by Jennifer IvingsInterview by A.N. Higgins Tanya Boteju’s first book, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens, published in 2019, is a Young Adult (YA) novel about a 17-year-old queer, mixed Brown girl who, over the course of one life-changing summer,...
Photo by Anton HurInterview by Alex Valente Alex Valente: Anton, it is a pleasure to finally have a one-on-one conversation—I’m glad I finally have a chance to talk to you without the Twitter algorithm getting in the way! Your...
The idea of a typical “Canadian” is a concept that requires dismantling, and Moni Brar challenges this fallacy in her carefully constructed poem “What You Want Doesn’t Matter”, now available to read in our summer issue (58.4). Rife with...
Interview by Tanvi Bhatia We’re thrilled to introduce to you our 2020 Jacob Zilber Prize winners. This year’s winners, chosen by contest judge Kristen Arnett, brought us into three distinct spaces imbued with loss, neglect, and longing. In each...
By Muniyra Douglas Minister Faust’s 2011 novel, The Alchemists of Kush, is considered literature’s first “hip hop epic“. But Minister Faust’s creative Africentrist vision isn’t limited to novels––he also reaches into video games, sketch comedy, journalism, podcasts, and more....
Photo by Gordon HillInterview by David Ly Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t, is a magical journey. LeBlanc has a natural eye for beauty, and even the darkest moments of the collection’s poems entice the...
Photo by Oriette D’AngeloInterview by Sara Mang I first encountered the generosity and brilliance of Garth Greenwell during the Disquiet Literary Program in Lisbon, where he encouraged his students to feel the sentences in our bodies. Greenwell’s innovative new...
Interview by Erica Commisso April 20 marked the release of Nicole Fleetwood’s book, Marking Time (Harvard University Press), the result of a years-long look at art produced in the confines of incarceration. Fleetwood, the director of the Institute for...
Photo by Stephen DavisInterview by Kate Finegan The poems in Claire Caldwell’s second collection, Gold Rush (Invisible Publishing, 2020) have something in common with the wilderness—they beg to be revisited. They artfully layer and interrogate the concept of wilderness...