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White Wall Review is the creative writing journal in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. Since 1976 we’ve published emerging and established writers and artists from across North America.

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NaNoWriMo: Works in Progress

November 3, 2026
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Charles Tyler
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On The Banks of the Muddy Creek

Daelle Shannon |
November 3, 2026

Daffodils in December,
I look up and see;
rack my mind,
The sky is a tepid blue.
as I dismember,
Feel the radiance of...

Haberdoedas
Featured Poetry

Buggage

Tasha Green |
November 3, 2026
there are bugs burrowing
in my back,
under my...

John Bogna
Featured Poetry

Basil Love

Mariette Jones |
November 3, 2026

Fighting the wind, I gathered the groceries and brought you, fragrant savoury thing, home

Meina Yin
Featured Fiction

Meaford, Ontario

Chris Pickrell |
November 1, 2026

It was mid-morning, and we were sitting together at a small wooden table in the sunroom of your house in the country....

Martin Brechtl
Featured Nonfiction WWR 55

A Tree Without Roots

Kate Foster |
October 22, 2026

My birth mother died last year, taking two secrets to the grave: the identity of my Black father and why she never...

Hansheng Zhao
Featured Poetry WWR 55

i came to stand at our shoreline

Shannon Lintott |
October 22, 2026
but it has gone

like missing a...

Yuri Antonenko
Featured Poetry WWR 55

tendrils

Shannon Lintott |
October 22, 2026
with day darkening
I guide the reaching life tendrils
with...

Liam Briese
Featured Poetry WWR 55

perennial

Shannon Lintott |
October 22, 2026
Living thins the skin. No matter
how thick. Dirt on flowers on coffins on dirt.

Father offers child—like gifts to his daughter.
He is searching...

Greg Trumper
Featured Interviews WWR 55

“Our Books Have Legs:” An Interview with Kirby

Januel Noche |
October 21, 2026

Kirby is a poet and the leading creative behind knife fork book (KFB), a Toronto-based publisher with a focus on poets and...

Annie Spratt
Featured Poetry WWR 55

Magnolia

Crissi Cochrane |
October 21, 2026
I can't help feeling the magnolia is foolish
getting her hopes up, budding
in the halflight of December.
Spring is such a distant dream
it might never...

Patti Black
Featured Poetry WWR 55

The first fly of spring

Aleks Stefanov |
October 21, 2026
There. There.
Between the window laminated
against the mesh.
Lean in
a kaleidoscope...

Alexey Demidov
Featured Fiction WWR 55

Good Neighbour

Laura Ashwood |
October 20, 2026

It had been thirty-two days since Elle had left her new apartment when someone knocked on the door. Elle was not in...

Nikita Belousov
Featured Poetry WWR 55

somewhere only we know

Cameron Wheeler |
October 20, 2026
go with me to google earth &
type in the address &
click on street view &
click april 2009, there she is eternal &
preserved by...

Artur Kraft
Featured Nonfiction WWR 55

People Make Glasgow

Ashley McCrea |
October 20, 2026

The Met Tower is an eyesore. Rising over George Square in Glasgow, Scotland, the fourteen-storey modernist building has sat unused since 2016,...

Jaye Haych
Featured Poetry WWR 55

What I Learned

Graeme Kennedy |
October 19, 2026
Pain works like that—

like an engine,

or a wagon, rolling...

Matthew Jackson
Featured Poetry WWR 55

Soak

Graeme Kennedy |
October 19, 2026
This rain soaks everything—

laundry day.

Heavy cycle. Cold wash.

Climb into...

Lepeto
Featured Fiction WWR 55

Stay the Course

Natalie Southworth |
October 19, 2026

You tell yourself you took the job because you’d be a fool not to. Because, unlike you, the other girls on your...

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