Events

It’s where we start each day, down on the earth, on the ground but getting up, comfortable in our skins, ground zero for ourselves.

Whether you have observed the annual migrations of birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles, mammals, or the temporary or permanent geographical dislocations of people, send us work that has moved you to commemorate these journeys.

Numbers as friends or enemies, stories of dyscalculia or math savants; stories about rounding errors, countdowns, numerology; lucky or unlucky numbers; stories about lotteries or elections are all fair game.

It's summer and the hermit crabs are everywhere! In honor of their shelled and many-legged goodness, the Icebreakers are requesting all submissions be hermit crab pieces.

We print poetry by emerging authors. We love writing that is beautiful and bad (in the Foxy Brown sense).

This issue is about 'silence' and we welcome poems up to 40 lines on that theme

We see “woman” as a broad category with space for an array of gender identities and expressions. We welcome contributions from bi+ women who identify as trans, non-binary, cis, and beyond.

We want to know about the road trip gone wrong, the family vacation from hell, and the time your mother-in-law almost burnt down the house on Thanksgiving.

Halfway Down the Stairs publishes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction and accepts work in most genres.

We encourage contributors to explore how matters of the spirit and environmental thinking influence their observations about the coming election.

PRISM strives to uplift and shine a light on emerging and established voices across Canada and internationally.

We want to hear from the girls, the guuurls, the butches, the fags, femmes, twinks, DINKs, dykes and bears. The aros, aces and the greys.

The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.

Sound could be taken in the literal sense, but sound and silence implies dissent, the eruption and censure of the protest or the riot. We are especially excited to welcome submissions that engage this conceptual territory, loosely defined.

This month, we want stories about sports. About the dreams involved. About the gambling. About the competition. About the broken bones. If it involves sports and it’s noir, we’ll see you at the finish line.