July | Freyja Hellebust

"The city during the summer is golden and dripping, syrupy slow, and the days taste sweet, like clementines or peaches, the juice running in sticky rivers down forearms, chins..."

Selected Poems | Yuan Changming

Yuan Changming's writing has appeared in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) and Best New Poems Online, among other journals across forty-six countries.

In | Ron Riekki

"in the military, they screwed up and took my X-ray twice, back to back, had me leave the room and then sent me right back in and when I came out, they said, 'You didn’t just take his X-ray again, did you?'..."

Septimus | Lucie Bonvalet

"Septimus had always had a fondness for cephalopods. The poetry of suction cups, the grace of tentacles, the strangeness of their beaks, the mysterious flexibility of their heads..."

Six Words | Jade Wright

Jade Wright is a dog-loving, bow-collecting creative writing graduate with a love of all things literary.

Disorientation | Suman Mallick

"I wanted to stop worrying about the Scylla of finding new donors like the businessman and the Charybdis of salary reductions and cutting our already meager staff, and I wanted to live a little while there was still living to be had..."