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

 
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Victoria Wang

Featured Poetry

If You’re Reading This

Isaac Rankin |
April 4, 2026

Yesterday my daughter asked me if my heart had ever skipped a beat. I lied, even though she
would have understood the truth.

Featured Poetry

Caroline

Isaac Rankin |
April 4, 2026

Top down. Bass thumping. Three teenagers cruising with doors off on the Jeep Wrangler in 5:00
traffic. The one in the backseat looks at me and nods like I’m somebody’s dad.

Gigi

Featured Poetry

After reading the headline of the 30th Breaking News notification that popped up on my phone today

Naa Ashitey |
April 4, 2026

I’ll go on a three hour walk without my cell phone
I’ll listen to the sound of cicadas dancing in tall, midwestern grass

Sara Deisinger

Featured Poetry

Porcelain Prince

Krystyn Lee Kavanagh |
April 4, 2026

He was a cathartic shit.
Sometimes he was an ashtray.

Tim Mossholder

Featured Poetry

If Only I Could See a Landscape As It Is When I Am Not There

Louie Leyson |
April 4, 2026

by a mirror, the beastly klutz
wounded by the angled glass

Aeroballonsport Ballonfahrten

Featured Poetry

Two Poems

Gabriel Milhet |
April 4, 2026

So we didn’t see the poison in the runoff.
Didn’t ask why the weeds grew thicker each year,

Lobacheva Ina

Featured Poetry

TERMINAL

M J Maio |
April 4, 2026

Gold wire, the last bit of sun held taught against
the dry collarbone of sand.

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

The Jays lost the World Series, The Imperial closed, and my Gramma died. (November)

Jake Hamilton |
March 24, 2026

That November, on the first day of the month, we’d gathered in a bar to watch game seven. It was as if there’d...

Freguesia de Estrela

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

Step Stool

David Sapp |
March 24, 2026

Dad was trying his hand, trying his best, at real estate, desperate to bring in some money. God, we needed the money.

Raimond Klavins

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

Elmo Under the Tree

Aisha Zubair |
March 24, 2026

Security caught me sleeping in the medical library after closing.  Too long in one place, they said gently. Not angry. Just tired.

Iryna Muller

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

Camping in December

Jonathan Van Elslander |
March 24, 2026

Most children might burst from the bed and through the door like penned animals escaping, but in December the sleeping bag in a tent holds tight. In the years in between, there were always days where a bedroom’s blanket lay even heavier, the morning slipping away.

Nourieh Ferdosian

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

Dowlat

Ghazal Faridi |
March 23, 2026

The intelligent men at inaugurations and speeches would agree – for they all have spiritually transcended. Their mountain of wealth is tall enough to hoist you directly to the sky’s seventh floor for them to talk to God personally

Juan Martin Lopez

Featured Fiction

Cultivation

Christina Howard |
March 20, 2026

Do I still control the wiggling of my fingers, the blinking of my eyes, or the rolling of my ankles? In my imagination, tiny spores of a bursting cap travel through my body by way of rivers of blood.

Dário Gomes

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

Sunnyside

Nicole Dufoe |
March 19, 2026

By early March, I noticed a small congregation of older men in front of Sunnyside’s empty outdoor swimming pool. Shirtless in the near-freezing air, they propped up tinfoil to capture the watery sun.

Featured Interviews

May I Have a Word?

Short-form inquiries into the long-form journey of becoming a writer

March 13, 2026

A conversation with poet-scholar Dale Martin Smith, author of the Griffin-nominated Size of Paradise (Knife Fork Book).

De an Sun

Featured Poetry

Four Poems

Richard Kevis |
March 11, 2026

The smoke and flame defined me more than any birthright or lesson.
I was trained to be the prodigy of perfect posture and hidden knives—

zelle duda

Featured Fiction

Men Without Names

Eric Velaj |
March 6, 2026

Stomach curds splash through the gunshot sounds of tires thumping through crumbling roads. In times like these, the inside of a mouth reminds of a farm. Bits from creatures and vegetables lie buried in unpicked pockets of teeth, waiting patiently for a savvy tongue to weasel in and through to scoop it out.

Izabela Himes

Featured Poetry

Letters to S

Graeme Kennedy |
March 5, 2026

Shells sounding the ocean—is this absence? Is the unwritten absence? Is post in transit absence? Is transition absence? Is progression absence? Is transformation absence? Is absence music?

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