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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.

Donna G
Featured Poetry WWR 55

Secrets of a First Marriage

Susan Atkinson |
October 14, 2026
By the end I would say
I'd known from the beginning
the way rain surely knows
it will momentarily bead on a leaf
only to slip from...

Guillaume DHALLUIN
Featured Poetry WWR 55

Clean

Susan Atkinson |
October 14, 2026
My first husband was a drug addict when
I married him on an October afternoon

on a bright October afternoon with white
boutonnière pinned proud, he...

alexanderafan
Featured Nonfiction WWR 55

Men of Steel

Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski |
October 14, 2026

The changeroom at Remington’s Men of Steel, Toronto’s only all-male fully-nude licensed strip club, was underground, down a spiralling black stairwell and...

Bo Schoonejans
Featured Poetry WWR 55

we worms

Ruthie Yudelson |
October 14, 2026
know food & home r interchangeable.
once u learn this, ull love better. have more mercy
in each other & own heavy bonishness.

arcticworks
Featured Poetry

Game Day

Edward Dewar |
October 10, 2026

It begins
in utero.
We mumble

incantations
and trust in our lucky
pennies.

Diego PH
Featured Poetry

Here & Now

Edward Dewar |
October 10, 2026

Alive and happy.

The brim of my hat
pulled low,
hands

in my pockets,

Tolga Ahmetler
Featured Fiction

Shaved Feet

Erica Stretton |
September 4, 2026

‘I bet you kill animals.’ His sea-glass eyes gleam, and his voice rises. ‘That’s what happens on farms, animals get killed and eaten. Or they die because they aren’t looked after. Animals die…’

Adhitya Sibikumar
Featured Fiction

Icicles and Birthday Clothes

Preston Lang |
September 4, 2026

“Well, she hates Joni Mitchell.” She nodded to the CD player. “I can tell you that much.” Jackie shook her head sadly.

“Oh, sweetheart. You’ll come around.”

Davide Sibilio
Featured Fiction

Beers in Hand and Sand in Socks

Devon Shih |
September 4, 2026

“I need to live,” I tell him.

He almost laughs but keeps it in a grin. “What does that mean?”

“I just need something drastic, I think.”

DESIGNECOLOGIST
Featured Micro-lit Nonfiction SUNBURST

Kaboom. Push.

Allison Price |
August 14, 2026

As another explosion breaks through the sky, I know that my heart doesn’t lie with him anymore. I’m reminded that once, on a special night, the firework beat echoed in my heart so hard, it transformed me…

Torbjørn Helgesen
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Lunch

Noah Chuang |
August 14, 2026

Sandwich in my hand,
Outside bathing in the sun,
A brief break from work…

Angelica Hasbon
Featured Fiction Micro-lit SUNBURST

Deep Play: Notes on an Ontario Racetrack

Blake Stirling |
August 14, 2026

When it became apparent that we were no different than a frog in a boiling pot, our family relocated to the open-air veranda, nearly tearing off our shirts as the congealed sweat from our backs hardened into a formidable glue…

Dina Makhmutova
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

they say the breeze came and brought you in

Zoe Yaarah |
August 13, 2026

you’re a smell i haven’t smelled in forever instantly
recognizable yet unplaceable
a millisecond technicolour super
-cut…

Willy the Wizard
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

late in the season

Zoe Yaarah |
August 13, 2026

wear my sunburn as blush stumble
while sipping on gaps
between shutter slats
consequent movie of window…

Hat Trick
Featured Micro-lit Nonfiction SUNBURST

Secondhand Clothes

Antoine Liu |
August 12, 2026

To reach that renowned independent art museum on the outskirts of Beijing, after getting off at the nearest bus stop, you have to walk three stretches…

Reinhard A. Deutsch
Featured Fiction Micro-lit SUNBURST

Stench

Arushi Madan |
August 12, 2026

She’s ten, pressing her face into the mesh of a window, staring at her father as he smokes his heart out in the driveway. He rings the doorbell, soon, and she runs to him. She burrows her nose into his back as he walks in. He locks himself in the bathroom…

Cristofer Maximilian
Featured Fiction Micro-lit SUNBURST

On the Beach

Greg Shupak |
August 11, 2026

The smell of saltwater and banana sunscreen. Erin’s in a straw hat and big sunglasses, white button-up over a black one-piece bathing suit.
“I dreamt you cheated on me with someone successful,” I say, planting my chair in the sand.
“I’d never do that,” she tells me…

Sebastian Piękoś
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

The Scent of Freedom

Moran Beatty Tabler |
August 11, 2026

Our laughter rolls along the way to a hotel
in California,
just as we laughed together at our meeting
on an autumn evening…

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