Events

We want your best laid plans gone awry. We want your glitches in the matrix. Our Journal Nine motto: watch your step.

We’re looking for writing about film, TV, and pop culture related to your hometown—however you may define it.

For Vol. IX, we’re seeking that surprise inherent in a “POP!” and the conflict that arises from it, characters and ideas that burst off the page, in language that crackles and snaps.

This issue will contain fiction and poems from the office worker's point of view - we're especially interested to see how the home office has taken on a new meaning because of Covid and what it's been like for those of us who have returned to the annoying commutes and communal bathrooms.

Happiness is a complex emotion. Send us your happy poems, whatever that means to you. Give yourself a brief respite from whatever is ailing you to write some happiness into your life.

All over the globe, well-established traditions have developed around the personal and social enjoyment of drinking these soothing, satisfying, and borderline addictive beverages.

Tell us about an experience shaving, or choosing not to: for a job interview, for an intimate affair, or for a time you tried to reinvent yourself.

In what ways do we experience religion, or the loss of religion, in our bodies?

This special issue of Canadian Literature examines the way literary texts claim space and explore questions of belonging for Indigenous, diaspora, and settler populations.

Although the essay holds the central role at DPA, we are open to other genres, including experimental, poetry and flash non-fiction, as long as there is a first-person point of view.

We are looking for honest pieces reflecting on resistance, either internal or external.

If all the world's a stage, then where is the backstage? What happens when there’s no one to perform for, when no one is watching, when everybody has gone home? Who are we then?

The body is a site of self-love, self-hate, and body neutrality alike: accepting loving odes, body horror, and everything in between. What words live in the relationship between your body and other bodies?

The Bad Day Book is here to help you take a step back and realize one day you may laugh about what is happening.

Stories submitted for consideration need to explore new angles to Anansi's character: have him follow alternative paths, present different viewpoints, imagine new futures, or perhaps pursue story lines that are hinted at in the original tales.

Optional Prompt: “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Our mandate is to publish emerging and established writers from across Canada, bringing them to a wide audience.

Attachment Styles goes far beyond the family tree to consider the pleasures, pitfalls and peculiarities of our messy human relations.

We explore original work which inspires awareness of the human condition.