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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.

Zac Cain
Featured Fiction Micro-lit SUNBURST

RED SKY AT MORNING 

Shoshauna Shy |
August 7, 2026

“Well, not likely all were onboard,” I claim. “Probably one suggested it; the second pretended they’re gung-ho; the third twisted themself into believing they can try, and the fourth hated the idea but didn’t want to get left off the lifeboat…”

Vitolda Klein
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Benediction

Gary Gould |
August 7, 2026

I want to give it up
sacrifice my rib-bones
for some god to take back…

Doug Bagg
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

MILKING THE SILENCE

Cliff Saunders |
August 6, 2026

Inspired by the wisdom of the horizon, I champion the sun, the rising tide…

Ikhsan Fauzi
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

BIRTH OF A POEM

Cliff Saunders |
August 6, 2026

I feel a cocoon shatter, releasing its butterfly…

Caroline O'Brien
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

The Bananas Are Finally Black

Jason Gratz |
August 5, 2026

We were gonna make
banana bread, remember?

Matt Richmond
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Crows on the Roof

John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco |
August 5, 2026

Autumn is a devious time when death comes with splendor, and summer dreams once warm enticements become crows on the roof…

James Day
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

4 bursting haiku

Hugh Findlay |
August 4, 2026

wounded horizon
bleeding sunrise into day—
darkness shot straight through…

Jason Mavrommatis
Featured Fiction Micro-lit SUNBURST

The Monks and the Sun

Sophie Gregrowski |
August 4, 2026

When I gaze up at the bright sun above me, a blazing orb of heat and light, my entire being is filled to the brim with an auric euphoria…

Gabriel Tovar
Featured Micro-lit Nonfiction SUNBURST

A Gray Beak Stabbing like a Singer Needle

Nellie Cox |
August 3, 2026

The choral director begs, threatens, pleads us inside to perform. When we file up the risers, the Prophet—seated in the front row—is smaller than I imagined. Frail… 

_M_V_
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Elegy for Herculaneum

Sarah Katz |
August 3, 2026

Imagine it: our deaths were silent. There was breath – a moment of still, suspended air before the heat hit and we died before we could scream. What a full moment, that breath before the burn…

Antonin Carvalho
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Fall

Lucinda B. Watson |
August 2, 2026

I wandered, following troughs of wet leaves marking the crusades and the dark fall
all yellow, smelling of dank, and my life as an
obedient pathfinder Joan of Arc…

Kamal Hoseinianzade
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

A Word

Lily Bitton |
August 2, 2026

There is no anesthetic for this procedure,
and so it is fully felt
in all of its excruciating actuality…

Adi Goldstein
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Pick A Superpower

Camryn Hafner |
August 1, 2026

If I could run faster than the D-train, I wouldn’t. I’d miss the voice telling me to stand clear, like it cares, and the slam poets preaching to grease-stained seats…

Matt Richmond
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Coyote Heart

Leah Smith |
August 1, 2026

My Coyote Heart is strewn across the highway,

laid out bare for you to see it,

and it’s not much but it’s what I’m made of…

Alexander Grey
Featured Fiction Micro-lit SUNBURST

Synesthesia

Elizabeth Dilley |
July 31, 2026

Beneath color there is always more color, and it is often chaotic, clashing. Nine-year-old Tommy hears it all…

Tarot by Hilary
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

The Lovers (VI): When Matter Meets Itself

M. M. Adjarian |
July 31, 2026

Together
you played hide-and-seek,
truth or dare, children
still, in quickening adult
bodies…

Mustafi Numann
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Not quite requited

Madeline Ricard |
July 30, 2026

Your tattooed torso is a weathered
altar & I am drunk, so I lay
my back on top of your belly
and take the knife I bought for
you…

Nisa Winter
Featured Micro-lit Poetry SUNBURST

Diminutive Duet: A Poetic Suite

John RC Potter |
July 30, 2026

Seven kids in all; with our parents, we were nine. They left us too soon…

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