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...
Hot off the press! For digital editions, subscribe here. You can also subscribe to receive Issue 4 & Issue 5 as digital editions. Medieval same-sex weddings, chaperoned dates with Dad, poems to confront domestic abuse in queer relationships, and why Jeanette Winterson is dangerous! Includes...
by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian In a unprecedented display of awesomeness last week, the Canada Council for the Arts announced this year’s winners for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and they included not one, not two, but three books penned by queer authors. First, we take over...
Another great evening with some of Vancouver’s Favourite Queer Writers, coming up on November 29th!
Plenitude Magazine invites emerging Canadian queer writers to enter the Emerging Writer Mentorship Award. This winter, the award is for fiction. Eligible writers have yet to publish their work in book form. One mentorship with an established queer writer will be awarded. The mentorship will take...
Recommend by Trevor Corkum A few years back, a friend sent me a call for something called the Loud & Queer Cabaret, then part of Edmonton’s Exposure Festival of the Arts. Loud & Queer is part of the longest-running queer arts showcase of its kind in Western Canada, a celebration of queer...
Thank you to everyone who came out to The Steady Cafe on Thursday, June 12th! It was a great night, lots of fun, and such an appreciative audience. We’d also like to thank The Steady Cafe for hosting the event, and Scott Dagostino at Glad Day Bookshop for his support. Thank you also to Vici...
We have teamed up with The Steady Cafe, Glad Day Bookshop and these fantastic queer writers for another sure-be-be excellent reading. Hear the latest from these exciting authors — and preview their forthcoming work! Thursday, June 12 | 9 pm The Steady Cafe 1051 Bloor Street, Toronto Join the...
Jane Eaton Hamilton is the author of seven books of fiction and poetry. Her writing has appeared on the Guardian’s Best of the Year list and on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her short work has appeared in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Numero Cinq, among other places. She has been...
Picture it: 1990. Vancouver. The Gay Games. Shawn Syms takes us on young Erik’s quest to interview Vladimir, a famous AIDS activist. But Erik is hoping for more: “He wasn’t afraid to fuck a person with AIDS.” With characteristic gritty humour and refreshing candour, Shawn...
“Even now, after years of wanting this, I am too shy to look for more than a fleeting moment.” Who can’t remember a ride home you wished would never end? The utterly transformative moment of that first kiss? Caitlin Crawshaw is a freelance journalist and MFA (creative writing)...
With tenderness and straightforward honesty, Lukas Bhandar shares a life-altering moment, not to mention a moving tribute to writer, filmmaker and musician Vivek Shraya. I Love My Hair, I Hate My Hair takes on the inherent racism of gay beauty standards from the perspective of a boy just coming of...
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...
Press Release from Leaf Press Surge Narrows By Emilia Nielsen “Surge Narrows is gorgeously sensual and sharply precise—if we could taste it, this book would be salmonberry. It would be salt. To read these poems is to stand under a waterfall, letting the words rush like cold, clean water over the...
Press Release from Biblioasis Canary by Nancy Jo Cullen What has to die before you force yourself to change? That’s the question facing the always quirky and often-queer characters of Canary. From the communal showers of a hot yoga studio to seedy pubs on Vancouver’s East Side, from Catholic...
A Letter from the Editor The best part about editing Plenitude is, of course, reading the submissions. And it feels sometimes like I’m taking the pulse of our collective unconscious—discovering what is on those solitary writing minds as we sit at our computers or notebooks uncovering our...
Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian writes a wonderful review of Plenitude Magazine Issue 1! As usual, Casey’s review is thorough and thoughtful, and I’m so happy she enjoyed the read! Read what all the fuss is about here: caseythecanadianlesbrarian
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Subscribe to Plenitude, and receive the inaugural issue today, August 31st, 2012. Issue 1 features new writing from Betsy Warland, Peter Knegt, Kevin Shaw, Stacy Brewster, Lindsay Cahill, Nancy Jo Cullen, Geer Austin, Trevor Corkum, Emilia Nielsen, Theodosia Henney, Matthew R.Loney, Alex Leslie...
