Serendipitous Corruptions and Erroneous Ghosts in the Culture Queer Sea: An Amble through jam ismail’s Work hibiscus mentioned that mushrooms are good for cholesterol. jaggery scoffed: what d’you mean, good for! chesnut dehisced: she means good against, good...
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Apply to the Emerging Writing Mentorship Award
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 11, 2015 Plenitude Magazine invites emerging Canadian queer writers to enter the Emerging Writer Mentorship Award. In February, 2015, the award was for fiction and the winner was Sasha Boczkowksi. Eligible writers have yet to publish their work in book form...
Metonymy Press
by DJ Fraser Metonymy Press, the newly launched English-language press out of Montreal, is focused on unity and representation, filling a void in English-language publishing in Montreal’s hyperactive queer creative scene. Through experience in the Montreal arts and literature scene...
Nairne Holtz, Hamilton
When Plenitude invited me to write about a book, I was paralyzed. You see, I’m like the guys who work in the record store in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity with their top-five lists of songs for every occasion. Except instead of songs, I have top-five book lists. For instance, I could do a top-five...
Catching up with Jillian Christmas
Interview by Matthew Walsh Jillian Christmas is a powerful force in the spoken word and slam poetry scene. Many of our readers are already familiar with Christmas’s work both in Vancouver and nation-wide. I had the lovely surprise of attending the reading series Chicken Sessions, where...
Anne Fleming, Kelowna & Vancouver
“If you scan my bookshelves you can pick out the books I gobbled up coming out in the ’80s—the green-spined Virago re-issues of lost women’s classics, the zebra-striped spines of The Women’s Press with the little clothes-iron colophon (so clever! so ironic!) and ‘Steaming ahead...
