Greg Trumper

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 eyeball.
A reviving poke sirens.

You crumble like ash
in a flailing descent,
a black speck.
Nothing fidgets.
In spring...

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 home

through the early

morning mud

Matthew Jackson

Featured Poetry WWR 55

Soak

Graeme Kennedy |

October 19, 2026

This rain soaks everything—

laundry day.

Heavy cycle. Cold wash.

Climb into the brushed metal. Get bashed

around a bit. Come out with your soul

clean. Smell...

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...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Featured Poetry WWR 55

Practice Plague

Hazel Yott |

October 17, 2026

I'll practice plague with the moon
I'll lie down and I'll lie up
I’ll let time pass like a corpse on the sea
If you saw...

Sean Foster

Featured Poetry WWR 55

Laika

Hazel Yott |

October 17, 2026

November 3rd, 1957: Sputnik 2 completed the first orbital spaceflight with a living creature. The formerly stray mongrel would overheat and die in...

Svetogor Maliugin

Featured Poetry WWR 55

White Noise

Hazel Yott |

October 17, 2026

Now the crucifix holds up
the telephone lines
while you thumb through
the pouring static

Foxtrot
...

Amir Azari

Featured Nonfiction WWR 55

Buried Memories Are Like Flowers in the Soil

Nia Watson |

October 17, 2026

The other day I reread “How It Feels to Be Coloured Me” by Zora Neale Hurston. It was my first time in...

Jamie Curd

Featured Poetry WWR 55

Southern California Pastoral

Brent Ameneyro |

October 17, 2026

After Kobayashi Issa's "This Dewdrop World"

Poorly groomed palm trees
make me anxious. Clouds calm me—
moving & still, there

& disappearing.
Got to beat the birds to...

Mike L

Featured Poetry WWR 55

I Cut Down a Tree

Brent Ameneyro |

October 17, 2026

& it woke me in
the night. It stood there against
the vast dark sky, as

if it were never
cut, as if I could go...

GreenForce Staffing

Featured Poetry WWR 55

Brown Dirt on Brown Dirt

Brent Ameneyro |

October 17, 2026

After César Vallejo's "Piedra Negra Sobre Una Piedra Blanca"
I will die watering my plants,
& when I do, leave me
in the dirt. I...

austin_7792

Featured Fiction WWR 55

Pam Sunday

Kirsti Mikoda |

October 15, 2026

Madonna Chafe sat and shivered in the wooden pew, clad in her least offensive dress and best pair of rubber boots. Her...

JJ Shev

Featured Fiction WWR 55

Crows and Neighbours

Sharon Berg |

October 15, 2026

A brilliant blue sky arches above the trees. From the doorway of his farmhouse, Sam watches a large flock of black birds...