Mackenzie Wiebe is a writer interested in texture, sensation, and ornament. They have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and currently organize the Emerging Writers Reading Series. They have a chapbook with Armistice Press called Wandering Teeth.
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Unimaginable Transformations: A Review of Something, Not Nothing by Sarah Leavitt
Reviewed by Jasmine Ruff Sarah Leavitt, Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2024), 152 pp., $27.95. Sarah Leavitt’s Something, Not Nothing is a poignant and raw exploration of grief, art, and joy in the aftermath of tremendous loss. In this collection of short...
Buzz Cut
I once thought of marriage as an exoplanet in the habitable zone of another star; I knew it was capable of sustaining life, I just didn’t want to live there. I’d taken astronomy lessons from my mom’s copy of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. How tidy the binary seemed back then, before...
Welcome to New Editors: Amanda Merpaw, Loch Baillie, Joelle Kidd
Plenitude Magazine is excited to announce its newest editors! Join us in welcoming Amanda Merpaw and Loch Baillie as our new Associate Poetry Editors, and Joelle Kidd as our new Associate Prose Editor, alongside L’Amour Lisik. With Amanda and Loch coming aboard, we’re sad to say goodbye...
Death to the Girl Crush: A Love Letter to my 90s Tomboy Femme Dream Girl
Dear [enter the name you see on your lips, of the poster on your wall, the face on the VHS cover, the girl you swore was just a friend as your mother spins your baseball cap forward and smooths your hair], When you [you, you, and you, too] all dipped your toes in the sparkling pool of traditional...
Traces of Nowhere
I have seen Twin Peaks exactly once in my life, in an apparition of a sunroom. ◊ It was like watching dust settle, how bored I was, piecing together why I was here and what I wanted and what this would mean to me in the end. ◊ The hot itch of orange tweed against the backs of my legs, an irritating...