Prompt #8: National Day Each day presents numerous opportunities, but some are more guided than others. Today, for example, is “National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbour’s Porch Day.” Yes, you read that correctly. Although it may seem ridiculous,...
Contents Jess Taylor – So Much Good Here: Notes on The Jacob Zilber Prize Jacob Zilber Grand Prize Winner Carol Matthews – The Boat, as it Happened Jacob Zilber Prize Runners-Up Adrick Brock – Chez Madame Christine Miscione –...
Today kicks off Pride weekend in Vancouver! Here are some of our favourite groundbreaking LGBTQ+ works of prose, poetry, memoir, and hybrid forms. These stories have changed the way we read, think, and experience our lives. Get them. Devour them. Enjoy...
Prompt #7: Refill A warm hug on a bad day, a heart on the top of your latte, or a bus driver that waits as you run for it. These can be some of the things that restore our...
The Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! We are so excited to announce Aisha Sasha John as the judge for this year’s contest! AISHA SASHA JOHN is a dancer and poet. Her solo performance the aisha of...
Prompt #6: Destiny Finding money on the ground, running into someone you know halfway across the world, cancelling your uber because of a long wait time and then getting matched with one whose driver gives you life-changing advice: are...
Interview by Matthew Walsh
Catriona Wright, poetry editor for The Puritan, an online magazine based out of Toronto, came to Vancouver recently to promote her debut poetry collection, Table Manners, at the Tonic Reading Series in June. The poems in this collection move with amazing precision and never go stale, leaving the reader with a richer vocabulary. Wright is a poet with a sharp eye and endless imagination. In this interview, we talked about food, inspiration, and how this book came together in what can only be described as a poetic feast for the mind.
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Reviewing the submissions we received in response to our new editorial team’s first call, “The Liminal,” a call intended to take what is often thought of as “marginal” and place it at the centre of our issue and our...
Prompt #5: Coping Everyone deals with pain, stress, and pressure differently. The coping mechanisms, or lack thereof, that we put in place pull at the foundations of relationships in our lives, even if it’s just the relationship with ourselves....