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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.

Featured From the Editors

NaNoWriMo: Works in Progress

November 5, 2026
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Hong Ki Tang
Featured Fiction

A Winter Light

Julian Gallo |
November 5, 2026

Anders is twelve now. Tall and thin, he takes after his mother. Angelo hasn’t seen him in person in two years. Since...

Severina Seidl
Featured Poetry

germaphobe

Karina Fantillo |
November 5, 2026
pre-covid a mask in my bag
in case someone coughed
on the bus my barrier
one less cavity open

brown leather to replace
black isotoners i lost
gloves shield...

Liana S
Fiction Poetry

kayumanggi [brown-skinned]

Karina Fantillo |
November 5, 2026
i saw myself in the mirror face & arms covered in ash like i’d been rolling in charcoal instead of swimming in albay...

Sebastian Schuster
Featured Poetry

rerooted

Karina Fantillo |
November 4, 2026
Fob
ching chong

Konnichiwa
Where are you from?
I mean,...

Dev Benjamin
Featured Poetry

encountering josé rizal

Karina Fantillo |
November 4, 2026
i dreamt i was in luneta park where mama & papa took us on weekends

Ahmad Odeh
Featured Poetry

performing tinikling

Karina Fantillo |
November 4, 2026
she hops on her right
he bounces on his left

dancers...

Charles Tyler
Featured Poetry

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...
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