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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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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?

Susan Wilkinson

Featured Poetry

The Age of Imbalance

John Zheng |
March 4, 2026

When yin yang is maintained
like tending to a garden,
harmony blooms into flowers
to beautify life and soul.

hannestm

Featured Poetry

Delta Blues

John Zheng |
March 4, 2026

the dirt road
jolts & jars

Featured Reviews

Controlling the Center Line: Pick a Colour and Intimacy in the Ring

Taylor Preston |
February 27, 2026

In their work, the salon women float like butterflies and sting like acetone. Discussing her new novel in an interview with Publishers Weekly, Thammavongsa highlighted a quote from the poet Jan Zwicky: “work can carry you the way love can, but with less sorrow.”

Liu Xia

Featured Fiction

Deep Inside

Stefan Zhael |
February 25, 2026

I think I see something move in the dark, across the room, near the far wall that I hope is there. The only light is from a dim digital clock that reads 23:34. I follow him and stupidly ask, “What’s going to happen?”

Siora Photography

Featured Non-fiction

Finger on the Line: One English Teacher’s Brush with Controversy

Pam North |
February 20, 2026

We’d begun to acknowledge the history of our Indigenous people, and attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community had begun to shift. But when I started to teach Annabel in 2017, I became increasingly aware that we were on the cusp of another struggle.

Valentina Grahovac

Featured Poetry

A Derelict Farmhouse on Manitoulin Island

James Owens |
February 18, 2026

she breathed slowly by the sink
her hands in dough
and thought of a tree in bloom

Featured Reviews

An unburial of colours, and other shades of mourning: A Review of The Widow’s Crayon Box by Molly Peacock

Hazel Yott |
February 13, 2026

I read this collection in November, the month of mourning, during the season where everything seems to lay its head come afternoon. When...

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