We are excited to announce that Cara Nelissen has joined the Plenitude team as our new Book Reviews Editor! Cara comes with a wealth of experience in the Canadian literary sphere, particularly as previous reviews editor for PRISM international. Cara will be taking over from Alison Dowsett, outgoing...
We are excited to announce that Dominik Parisien has joined the Plenitude team as our second Associate Prose Editor! David will work alongside L’Amour Lisik to discover and publish exciting new stories from queer writers around the world. Dominik Parisien is an editor, writer, and poet. His poetry...
Plenitude Magazine is currently seeking a permanent, part-time book reviews editor to start January 2021. The candidate will work to oversee the regular online publication of book reviews from prominent and up-and-coming LGBTQ2s+ authors. Plenitude publishes one review per month all year round on...
We are excited to announce that David Ishaya Osu has joined the Plenitude team as our second Associate Poetry Editor! David will work alongside Rebecca Salazar to discover and publish exciting new poetry from queer writers around the world. David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist, street photographer...
Plenitude Magazine mourns the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Tony McDade, and all others whose lives have been stolen by police violence. We condemn the murders of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC), and especially of trans BIPOC at the hands of white supremacist...
This call for submissions will end on June 30, 2020 All around the world, people are being asked to stay home to stop the spread of COVID-19. Self-isolate. Practice social distancing. Don’t spend time with anyone outside of your household. But how is this affecting members of the Canadian LGBTQ2S+...
Want to know your best bet at getting published? Curious about our history and favourite pieces? Look no further! Patrick Grace, our managing editor, was recently interviewed by Lambda Literary about Plenitude’s history, our focus on queer and trans lit, what we’re looking for in submissions, and...
We are excited to announce that L’Amour Lisik has joined the Plenitude team as our new Associate Prose Editor! L’Amour is an artist, writer, and QPOC who lives on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples. She holds a BFA in Writing from the University of Victoria...
Happy New Year from Plenitude! To start 2020 off right, we’re launching a special Youth Spotlight project this month. Stories by young queer and trans authors about teen/YA (young adult) experiences don’t receive as much attention as they should, so we’ve selected two fiction and two creative...
Plenitude is excited to appear at Open Space’s Small Press Fest on October 5 in Victoria, BC! Managing editor Patrick Grace will be there to speak on a panel discussion about running a small press or literary journal. He will also be hosting a table at the event alongside board member L’Amour Lisik...
Plenitude is very happy to welcome Patrick Grace to the role of managing editor. No stranger to the literary world, he worked for The Malahat Review as publicity manager from 2013 to 2017, and has acted as one of Plenitude’s poetry editors since 2016. He has also been helping us out with...
Are you passionate about queer literature in Canada? Do you want to support the growth and development of queer literature through Canada’s queer literary magazine? Join the Board of Plenitude Publishing Society! Plenitude Publishing Society (PPS) is seeking volunteers to bring their unique skills...
We are excited to announce that Alison Dowsett has joined the Plenitude team! She will be taking over the roles of reviews editor, and prose editor. Alison’s work has appeared in subTerrain, Xtra! West, Terminal City, and the Science Creative Quarterly. Her piece of short memoir, “Primordial Eros,”...
Congratulations to all finalists announced by the Lambda Literary Foundation this past Thursday, and especially to all the authors who are past contributors to Plenitude. Emilia Nielsen’s work was published in our very first issue and her current poetry collection, Body Work, is nominated in...
Plenitude is pleased to welcome our newest staff member, associate editor for poetry Rebecca Salazar. Rebecca has published poetry and non-fiction in journals including Prism, Minola, and The Puritan. Her poetry chapbook, Guzzle, was released by Anstruther Press in 2016. Originally from Sudbury...
We’re pleased to announce the winner of the stuffie, the mixtape, and immeasurable glory—without further ado: Winner: Rachael Jordan, “Transfusion” Runner-up: Bridie Mills, “Inconsequential Man” Choosing a winner from such an impressive longlist was no easy task. Judge...
Hot on the heels of the longlist announced Monday, the shortlist is here: A Quiet Dinner, by Victoria Mbabazi Inconsequential Man, by Bridie Mills Self Control, by Amy Currie Transfusion, by Rachael Jordan Congratulations to the writers shortlisted for the inaugural Rainbow Unicorn Stuffie Mix-Tape...
Here it is, folks! We received so many submissions from writers far and wide, and after much deliberation, we present the longlist! (In alphabetical order.) Congratulations to all of you–and thank you to everyone who submitted. Longlist Balloon People, by Evan Anderson Grandpa’s Last Story...
Yes. That is really what it’s called. Guidelines: Send us your best fiction, non-fiction or prose poetry between 250 and 500 words. A moment, a deft scene, a life story—what can you do with this tight form? Open to all LGBTQ2+ identified writers. Maximum TWO submissions per writer. Submit as a word...
The Plenitude team is pleased to welcome our two new associate editors for fiction and creative non-fiction, Fatima Amarshi and Derek Warwick! A child of the global South Asian Diaspora, Fatima Amarshi comes from a multi-generational family of immigrants who travelled from India to Tanzania, and...
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural Cornucopia Literary Prize is Rachel Lallouz for her short story “Eyes Like Limpid Pools.” In the words of our 2017 judge, Hiromi Goto: There were so many strong submissions with such a range in style, content, voice, each so...
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Cornucopia Literary Prize for short fiction, judged this year by Hiromi Goto: “Pristine,” by Kristyn Dunnion “Eyes Like Limpid Pools,” by Rachel Lallouz “See You Next Soon,” by Jess Martin...
We are thrilled to announce our first-ever contest, the Cornucopia Literary Prize for fiction. The prize is open for submissions from September 15, 2016, until March 1, 2017, and is awarded to the best work of fiction by a LGBTTQI writer. We welcome submissions from writers of any nationality. In...
Thanks to the generous donors to our recent fundraiser, Plenitude is thrilled to announce that we are increasing our writer honoraria, effective immediately. For fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and articles, we now offer $60; for a poem, we offer $25. We are committed to paying our writers for their...
Plenitude Magazine is looking for queer and trans writers of colour for our reviews section. We look for book reviews which are critical and thoughtful and between 700 and 1,000 words. We feature poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by queers and trans writers, with a focus on Canadian content. We...
For the third annual Emerging Writer Mentorship Award, we invited queer writers who have yet to publish a book to submit their creative non-fiction, as well as a short essay explaining what they hope to gain from a mentorship with Michael V. Smith. We received many compelling applications from...
I began working on Plenitude just over four years ago. The first issue came out in the fall of 2012, and included both emerging and established writers such as Betsy Warland and Nancy Jo Cullen. From reading and selecting material, to designing epubs, to marketing–I was a volunteer staff of...
We would like to thank everyone who applied for the position of social media and marketing coordinator, and to welcome our new coordinator, Malaika Aleba! Malaika is a writer, copy editor, spoken word performer, and fundraiser. She earned her BA in English Literature and Women’s Studies at the...
Plenitude magazine is currently seeking a social media and marketing coordinator. The coordinator will work with the managing editor to plan and implement all promotions. Duties include: Posting and sharing relevant content on our Facebook and Twitter accounts, and creating any additional social...
Congratulations Ron Schafrick on being one of just twelve short story writers selected for the Journey Prize Stories (Penguin Random House, 2015). Schafrick’s tender and funny story, “Lovely Company,” appeared in Issue 5 of Plenitude magazine (Fall 2014), and we are thrilled that...
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...
Congratulations to the sole Canadian Lammy winner, Casey Plett! Her debut short fiction collection, A Safe Girl to Love, won in the category transgender fiction. She was in excellent company — other books shortlisted included For Today I Am a Boy, by Kim Fu, and Moving Forward Sideways Like a...
Plenitude magazine, Canada’s queer literary magazine, is seeking a Film Review Intern to cover the Toronto Inside Out Film Festival, which runs from May 21 – May 31, 2015. The reviewer will write ten short reviews (400-500 words each), which will be posted during the festival (1-2 per...
Congratulations to the sixteen Canadian authors who are finalists for Lambda Literary Awards this year! Some Plenitude friends are on the list, too! This year’s Emerging Writer Mentorship Award mentor, Shani Mootoo, is a finalist in the transgender fiction category for Moving Forward Sideways...
Plenitude Magazine is now entirely online and accessible to everyone, but don’t miss out on the fantastic work that appeared in Issue 4 and Issue 5! New stories from Shawn Syms, Leah Horlick, Ashley Little, Mette Bach, Lukas Bhandar, Shannon Webb-Campbell and more! From medieval same-sex...
Congratulations to Sasha Boczkowski! Shani Mootoo read the stories from finalists Sasha Bczkowski, Lukas Bhandar and Llew Forestell. “This is one of those hard decisions,” she said. “Three very, very good works.” She finally selected “Birds,” by Sasha Boczkowski...
Thank you to everyone who submitted to the Emerging Writer Mentorship Award. We received many fantastic stories. The judge for this shortlist was Alex Leslie, and the winning piece will be selected by Shani Mootoo and announced next week. Congratulations to these three finalists! Lukas...
by Andrea Routley “Descant has an enormous community. It is an international magazine with a strong focus on Canada and on emerging artists. We have trained dozens of interns, hundreds of editors have worked with us over the years, and thousands of writers and visual artists and musicians and...
Of the fifteen longlisted books for 2015 Canada Reads, at least four of them are queer-authored–definitely overrepresented among the barrier-breakers. Perhaps this is unsurprising. After all, we encounter a lot of barriers! Not all of them are the same, of course. For example, Kamal Al...
The International IMPAC Dublin Award is the world’s richest literary award — the winner takes home €100,000! But that is beside the point (right?). Libraries from all over the world nominate books for their literary merit, and this year Ashley Little’s novel Anatomy of a Girl...
