#Fall 20233

Issue 168

WHEN INTELLIGENCE IS NOT ARTIFICIAL: in which we see signs of hope in a cantankerous mother, discover the economic precarities of the writing life, witness the complicated wonder of the Antarctic, and prepare for end times.

Writer-At-Large

The Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest

The Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Contest

Poetry

Fiction

The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest

#Other Issues3

Issue 167
Summer 2023

CREATING TENSION: in which we cross the border at Checkpoint Charlie, impulse buy an old hotel on the Portuguese coast, give online dating a whirl, and learn about the precarities of sex and friendship in a fort in the woods.

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Issue 169
Winter 2024

CHANCE REUNIONS: in which we try to subvert a grocery store chain, fail to fully grasp Cantonese, escape our newborn child, and come to terms with addiction, again.

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