J.R. Patterson

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True at First Flight

J.R. Patterson

The unmistakable buzz of an approaching aircraft is enough to send my family onto the lawn

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Essays

Main Character

I always longed to be the falling woman—impelled by unruly passion, driven by beauty and desire, turned into stone, drowned in flowers.

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Stephen Osborne

Dispatches

Intellectual in the Landscape

When the celebrated English poet Rupert Brooke came to Canada on the train from New York in 1913, he had been warned that he would find “a country without a soul.” The gloomy streets of Montreal, overshadowed by churches and banks and heavy telephone wires, reminded him of the equally gloomy streets of Glasgow and Birmingham.

Anson Ching

Reviews

the universal human

Review of "The Invention of the Other" directed by Bruno Jorge (2022).

Angélique Lalonde

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Lady with the Big Head Chronicle

I am wholly unimportant—just a witness to her shapeshifting, possessed of a voice that can be compelled into song by the land’s unfolding

PHIL HALL

Poetry

Festivities

"anything you wanted to keep had to be taken off your balcony / then on that day, Balcony Day / whatever items were still left out there disappeared"

Eleanor Panno

Comics

The Broch

"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."

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VIFF 2024: Blink

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Surveillance

First Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

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Sentimental

Second Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

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Fun & Fast

Third Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

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The 2024 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest

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Andrea Scott

Return to the Lake of Shining Waters

First Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

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June Cleaver Lies in Bed

Second Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

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Winners of the 2023 PolterGeist Writing Contest

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Ghosting

Third Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

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