How about at a licensed restaurant on Commercial Drive, Vancouver, where you can pay $10 and not only get a digital subscription to Plenitude, but also hear some of Vancouver’s favourite queer writers read from their latest — or upcoming — books? If you’re thinking...
We are so excited to announce that print subscriptions to Plenitude are now available within Canada. Stay tuned for International rates! A print subscription includes both print and digital. Digital issues are of course far more economical to create and distribute, and enable us to distribute the...
Congratulations to the winner of our first Emerging Writer Mentorship Award, Nat Marshik! Thank to everyone who submitted to the award. It was not an easy decision! Managing editor Andrea Routley compiled the shortlist and this year’s mentor Arleen Paré selected the winner. Here’s what...
Trevor Corkum is a Canadian writer of fiction, essays, and creative non-fiction who has been published widely in Canada. He’s lived across Canada and in Norway, Spain and Germany and has travelled widely. Currently he is based in Toronto. Trevor took his first writing workshops through Trent...
Shawn Syms, Editor, Friend. Follow. Text. (Enfield & Wizenty, 2013). Paperback, 296 pp., $19.95 Reviewed by Andrea Routley In Friend. Follow. Text., editor Shawn Syms offers a comprehensive exploration of all things online. Through 27 short stories, ranging from new writers to award winners...
Minal Hajratwala, Editor, Out! Stories from the New Queer India (Queer Ink, 2012). 447 pp. Reviewed by Rachna Contractor During my last visit to India in 2010 I noticed an overt shift: queer was everywhere–in mainstream news, family conversation, Bollywood nuance. It’s not that queer had been...
