We are looking for short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, and photography that explore all the dirty things we’re told to scrub away… and what happens when they stick around.…
I’m a socialist, and I love clothing, and this means that my relationship with clothing and politics is complicated. …
To Make a Bridge explores the Italian immigrant diaspora through the poet’s recollections of fondly cooking with her Nonna, tearing down a shed and sitting on the couch with her Nonno.…
Every time we leave our front door, we must face who we are and how that exists within our psyche. Musa Okwonga attempts to express that with In the End it Was All About Love.…
Poetry is tenderness and generosity. Poetry is a soft hand that grabs you by the wrist at your favourite bar and pulls you into the bathroom to share a secret amidst the disarray of dishevelled hair and a wine stain …
There is a certain formula that poetry anthologies must adhere to on paper, but the beauty of that formula is that it can be eclectic and raw. Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Worker’s Poetry is exactly that; a raw …
Oftentimes an author writes about connection—to other characters, the narrative, the setting—but sometimes an author expects a connection from the reader. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead writes about all three connections, and expects the latter.…
In a plea for living simple,
we often forget to look back at simplicity and remember. …
