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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.

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 out shoreline

Shannon Lintott |
October 22, 2026
but it has gone

like missing a step
the tide departed
before i could arrive

underneath this empire of emptiness
lay crumbling pits
lined with blotched skin
pulled thin...

Yuri Antonenko
Featured Poetry WWR 55

tendrils

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

lift them from mud
coil the ends
with index fingers
round & round

how gently they grasp
relieved...

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 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...
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