by Rachna Contractor As reviews editor I receive many inquiries about how to write a book review; here’s a list of eight tips which I presented at the Plenitude magazine co-sponsored Queer Night of the Brockton Writers Series in July 2016. If you have more suggestions or questions feel free to...
Jane Byers A phys-ed teacher in Belleville, Ontario, who can’t come out invites me to do a lesbian “show and tell” in health class. The girls are quiet but fidgety while she introduces me, a picture of normal—chinos, pastel cardigan, Birkenstocks. Portray a boring life that is anything but:...
Plenitude magazine is co-presenting this month’s Queer Night at the Brockton Writers Series on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at full of beans Coffee House & Roastery, 1348 Dundas St. W., Toronto (6:30pm, PWYC)—featuring Matt Loney, Gwen Benaway, Kumasi Jay Gwynne, Yaya Yao and a special guest...
Kai Cheng Thom even if he loves you, even if he knows how to love you well, your white cisgender boyfriend can’t save you: for all the strength you imagine into the curves of his arms, no matter how tightly you have taught him to hold you, the circle of his embrace is not a fortress, cannot...
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...
Kay Gabriel i. Swam in a lake of it, got typically fucked Took stock of bathing coupons: half a chunk of trophy on display, the marble auction, from where the guests come in. On the right side the cradle of her thigh a mini world limned in that slit rounded, undraped, but fuller in the...
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...
Reviewed by Salma Saadi “I’ve read the Qu’ran, and I know the passages you’re referring to. None of them clearly condemns homosexuality.” Does Islam really forbid homosexuality? Can you be gay and still be a practising Muslim? To some, this may sound absurd, but these are some of the...
John Elizabeth Stintzi Now— Winnipeg, MB. Near Confusion Corner Winnipeg was once a wide world. Now wider than it seems, it is a cool spread thin. Now it is a hill of small favours, of small livings and hush nights and hard windows we view through. A city of voyeuristic perches perennial...
