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Issue 160

Mushroom Girl

Mushroom girl, like her namesake, was largely subterranean, invisible, and enmeshed in the roots of everything. In fact, until today, I never saw her—her self proper—but only her fruiting bodies, which appeared three times, in the spring of my thirtieth year, on my kitchen counter in a plain white box. The first time, my husband […] Read more.

Lizzie Derksen in
Issue 159

Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal

A kingfisher perched on a power-line, motionless, over waxwings lisping in bushes below it. Two women carrying giant-lensed cameras tried to keep two herons in sight. Read more.

Brian Bartlett in
Issue 159

Some Worse

It’s unnatural, the way it moves. Not in the sense of being a mere product of human ingenuity or intervention, but unnatural in that it seems to defy the laws that govern other physical things. Broad and boxy, barrelling along like a rockslide, cutting through fender-deep snow like a guillotine through paper. And yet it takes bends with ease, never straying from the dirt road buried below, thriving on its own inertia while remaining nimble and confident in its control. Read more.

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The Writer’s Corner

November 29, 2021

Episode 11 – Sheryda Warrener

"I think with a poem, you always want to have something at stake that you just are not going to be able to answer, but you keep trying to get at it in this way, in that way, in this way."   Episode 11 | Sheryda Warrener   Transcript Sheryda Warrener (00:00): I think with a […]

November 8, 2021

What’s Geoff Martin Reading?

Through the entirety of this past summer, pressed on all sides by a deluge of moving boxes at my new home in Kitchener and a raucous toddler who had lost the ability to stay asleep, my reading habit nearly ground to a terrifying halt. There just wasn’t time. The one book, however, that nipped at […]

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October 21, 2021

Wild Writers Literary Festival #10

We’re wild about the Wild Writers Literary Festival, which is a decade-old in November 2021. As a result of Covid-19 restrictions, this year’s WWLF, like the 2020 festival, is online—from November 1 to November 21, 2021, there are seventeen events and three Youth Writer Workshops— https://wildwriters.ca/schedule-2021/ Two of the high-profile events include “From Plants to […]