Notes & Dispatches from S.I. HASSAN, SADIE McCARNEY, MADELEINE PELLETIER and ROSE DIVECHA; New fiction by RITA SIMONETTA; Feature essays from RAYYA LIEBICH and ANIK SEE; Comic by RJ McDANIEL; Poetry by CONOR KERR; Winners of the 19th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest, and much more!
"Mino-dibikad o'o waawaateg" by NIIGAAN SINCLAIR
"Precipices, Brinks and Finding the Moose" by SARAH COX
"Seasonal Attraction to the Void" by ANN POWERS
Cover art by CAROLINE MONNET
More artists in this issue: JORDAN BENNETT, LAURA DUTTON, KATE GREENSLADE, VANESSA HALL-PATCH, ALYSSA HIROSE, HELENA RAKIC, SARAH SNIP SNIP, DAVID TRAUTRIMAS
… and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle!
FEATURES
Postcard Lit: Winners of the 19th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest
"Thus Spoke Nietzsche" by Rita Simonetta
"Righthand Justified" by Rayya Liebich
"The Crush and the Rush and the Roar" by Anik See
NOTES & DISPATCHES
"Becoming Canadian" by S.I. Hassan
"Buffalo Pound Boys" by Conor Kerr
"Christmas in Lothlórien" by Sadie McCarney
"Dummies Raising Goats" by Madeleine Pelletier
"Clearing Out My Mother's House" by Rose Divecha
"Petrine" by RJ McDaniel
FINDINGS
"Slow Travel, Psychic Space" by Pamela Mulloy
"Lending Library, Heaven" by Danielle Devereaux
"Dracaena" by Dallas Hunt
"Five Businesses Between 118th Ave and Little Italy" by Catherine Owen
"Keep Reading" by Sarah Leavitt
"Seasonal Attraction to the Void" by Ann Powers
"Precipices, Brinks and Finding the Moose" by Sarah Cox
"Mino-dibikad o'o waawaateg" by Niigaan Sinclair
"Stages of Nomenclature" by Collin Varner
ENDNOTES
M Train by Patti Smith, reviewed by Patty Osborne
House Work curated by Caitlin Jones and Shiloh Sukkau, reviewed by Shyla Seller
Something, Not Nothing by Sarah Leavitt, reviewed by Peggy Thompson
Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau (tr. Linda Coverdale), reviewed by Anson Ching
The Age of Insecurity by Astra Taylor, reviewed by Michael Hayward
The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill, reviewed by Cornelia Mars
Mushrooming: The Joy of the Quiet Hunt by Diane Borsato, reviewed by Kelsea O'Connor
Stories from My Gay Grandparents created by Perrie Voss and Scott Farley, reviewed by Peggy Thompson
There Was a Time for Everything by Judith Friedland, reviewed by Kristina Rothstein
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, reviewed by Peggy Thompson
Memories Look at Me by Tomas Tranströmer and A Childhood by Harry Crews, reviewed by Liam Macphail
Bridestones by Miranda Pearson, reviewed by Geoff Inverarity
Happening (tr. Tanya Leslie); The Years (tr. Alison L. Strayer); and A Girls Story (tr. Alison L. Strayer) by Annie Erneaux, reviewed by H.R. Straw
AND THE GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!