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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.

Lera Kogan

Featured Fiction

Futile

Natasha Noto |
June 5, 2026

I’m laying on my bed with only a towel covering my body. I stare at the DM left on seen from a week ago, when I gave The Photographer my email the night of the shoot. Did he really just ghost me?

Rob Laughter

Featured Fiction

That Kind of Man

Tim Keppel |
June 5, 2026

“Tell me,” you say, “do you think, like Freud, that all our actions are driven by our desires?”

 

Her eyes glint with mischief. “Sure.”

Ali Pazani

Featured Poetry

MS Sensory Symptoms Sound

Rebecca Wood |
June 5, 2026

Tactile information
objects, clothing, fingertips
on skin sensors
soft, cold, scratch, pressure,

Featured Interviews

May I Have a Word?

Short-form inquiries into the long-form journey of becoming a writer.

June 5, 2026

Hajer Mirwali is a Palestinian and Iraqi writer living in Toronto. Her first book, Revolutions (Talonbooks, 2025), is a collection of poetry on shame, pleasure, and Arab Muslim girlhood.

Jaredd Craig

Featured Poetry

upside to     ʎʇᴉuɹǝʇǝ 

David Woodward |
June 4, 2026

fantasy is alive

it is returning

to claim the real

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Featured Poetry

42.4338° N, 83.9845° W

Adam Jon Miller |
June 4, 2026

Almost the
war is over

Geetanjal Khanna

Featured Poetry

My Wife Wants to Die

Samuel Goldsmith |
June 4, 2026

When I was a boy
my brother’s cat
feared so fiercely that
she padlocked her mouth

Jeremy Hynes

Featured Poetry

How Blind, To See The World In Fractions

Fyn Goldstein |
June 4, 2026

I have never known Night
The way an owl does,

Featured Interviews

Writing as a Vessel for the Encounter: an Interview with Jumoke Verissimo

Hazel Yott |
May 14, 2026

In her 2025 poetry collection, Circumtrauma (Coach House Books), Jumoke Verissimo draws upon memories of a collective trauma shaped by the Nigerian-Biafra War...

fr0ggy5

Featured Poetry

The Night Forest

John Grey |
May 13, 2026

The day rolls up in a long horizon line,
moon slips past the eye,
speaks now only in shimmering
and occasional murmurs caught
between thick high branches.

Jake Kendall

Featured Fiction

Chapter One – Oven Cleaning

Jake Kendall |
May 11, 2026

He was exactly where he always was—huddled into the crevice of the sofa that his body had sculpted over time.

Featured Interviews

​To Think of Ordinary Healing: A Conversation with Lisa Martin

Jumoke Verissimo |
May 11, 2026

The atmosphere of an abandoned psychiatric hospital brings its own kind of haunting, that draw from fractured memory, ruin and also forgotten history. 

Christian Chen

Featured Non-fiction

Trinity

Cooley |
April 21, 2026

It was Aug 6, still early, and someone might
pull the winning number: Under the B: 29.

Dylan Nolte

Featured Non-fiction

Jackpot

Bell McEntire |
April 10, 2026

I heard about my sister’s no-contact status only through Dad, who praised me for being the good daughter

Diane Picchiottino

Featured Non-fiction

Italian Ice

Sean Dougherty |
April 10, 2026

I was a boy with a stick that I was sharpening, into a spear, the way human boys had done for decades, for hundreds of years, for thousands of years, all the way back to the first child

Zhang Shuaizhang

Featured Non-fiction

What About Jesus?

Brad Austin |
April 10, 2026

I told Grandpa that he and I should start a rap duo. I pictured us on the album cover, our backs to the camera, hats and jeans on backward like Kris Kross.

Possessed Photography

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

Cinnamon Snow

Caitlin Kam |
April 9, 2026

The dough came out of the cardboard tube, uncoiling onto the counter in a pale sheet. Mom smoothed it flat with the heel of her hand, pressing just enough to even it out.

Charlota Blunarova

Featured Non-fiction Winter Nostalgia

The Warm Glow of a Cold System: Reimagining Christmas in Postbellum Enslaver Memoirs 

David Anderson |
April 9, 2026

Christmas, in these accounts, was a stage on which plantation paternalism and an imagined interracial harmony were theatrically performed.

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