EXTENDED Deadline: November 30, 2020 SCAB. Not quite broken, not quite mended. A reminder of what was, and what will be. Scabs protect our wounds, and yet the temptation to pick at them and peel them off is always...
Interview by Emily Chou While I was compiling poems for VULGAR, “Tight Pants” was one that refused to leave my brain. Something about its incredible aural qualities and inviting voice cut through all the noise and I found myself...
We are excited to share an excerpt from “Naissance” by Theressa Slind, which appears in our VULGAR issue (59.1). “Naissance” is everything we’d hoped for in our call for submissions; it’s surprising, fun, and forces us to look at...
Photo credit: Justin Eli KahnInterview by Alex Valente Alex Valente: Somrita, thank you for agreeing to do this! Literary translation is one of those fields where everyone eventually really does know everyone else, and your name keeps cropping up,...
Hearts AmokKevin SpenstAnvil Press, 2020 Review by Robert Colman Kevin Spenst has been inextricably linked to Canada’s small press poetry world for the better part of the past decade. Prior to 2020’s Hearts Amok (Anvil Press) he’d published not...
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Non-fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Alexander Chee! Grand Prize “Ghost Bread” by Angelique Stevens Angelique Stevens is Haudenosaunee and Italian. Her nonfiction can be found in LitHub, The...
Designated MournerCatherine OwenECW Press, 2014 Riven Catherine OwenECW Press, 2020 Review by Kim Trainor Last night I went down to the river, the Fraser slipping through Delta’s fingers, past Westham Island, mud-green flow of water tipped silver out to sea....
The following pieces have been shortlisted for the 2020 Creative Nonfiction Contest! Check back soon for the winners announcement, chosen by this year’s contest judge, Alexander Chee. (PS, our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is open for submissions until October...
Grand Union: StoriesZadie SmithHamish Hamilton, 2019 Review by B. H. Lake Zadie Smith, the author of such masterworks of contemporary literature as White Teeth, Feel Free, and Swing Time, published a new collection of short stories in the fall...
