Announcing the shortlist for our first-ever Summer Poetry Contest! Misha Solomon selected this shortlist from a longlist of eleven poems, as put together from close to 200 poems by our managing editor, Patrick Grace. Misha’s grand-prize winner selection will be announced November 1, so stay tuned...
Reviewed by Li Charmaine Anne Hollay Ghadery, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026), 200pp., $21.95. Loss is presumed as we age: the loss of ignorance along with a loss of innocence. Yet across countries, time periods, and generations, a new grandmother retains her childlike wonder—and...
Announcing the longlist for our first-ever Summer Poetry Contest! We received over 70 entries and close to 200 individual poems. Thank you to everyone who sent in their work – we are a very small literary magazine, and we can only thrive with the support of our readers and writers. Stay tuned...
Ancestral magicians perform not tricks, but truly magical acts, like taking a blue and white pearl the colour of the earth and placing it in her work-hard palms. This is my mother, entangled in sisters, brought to peace in age, throwing off years like a hot fur coat, years of bitterness turned some...
Interview by Shawn Syms In connection with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 12 to 18, 2026, Plenitude book reviews editor Shawn Syms interviews Jordan Abel, a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver and author of multiple books including The Place of Scraps, Un/inhabited...
After Natalia Ginzburg’s “He and I” He likes working on the patio. I prefer cooking up a stew or pouring out cocktails. I do the grocery shopping, take the car to the mechanic, and ferry cardboard to the recycling centre. He keeps the house plants alive, launders the sheets and towels, and fills...
