Nicola Harwood Note about names and pronouns: Names have been changed in this story to protect privacy. Around the age of seventeen, Antwan changed her name and asked to be referred to as female. She has asked that we use male pronouns when referring to the times before then when she still...
by Jules Bentley R.W. Gray’s second book of short stories, Entropic, is the work of a writer exploring his gifts. Gray excels at articulating a state of pained, disempowered longing. It’s not lust, precisely, although it sometimes finds a subrogate in lust. It’s an...
I came out of the closet in grade nine on the basis of my attraction to men, which was undeniable
Interview by Matthew Walsh Sassafras Lowrey’s most recent novel, Lost Boi, was released a few months ago with Arsenal Pulp Press, and it has already gone into a second printing. Lowrey has even been recognized on the streets of Brooklyn, where they live, by fans of the book, which takes the fairy...
Jade McGregor When I say poetry saved my life I should mention other forces– by 1999 all the cars cruising the kiddie stroll had power lock doors, crystal meth turned the girls —Amber Dawn, titular piece, How Poetry Saved My Life My mother lived beside herself in fear I...
Serendipitous Corruptions and Erroneous Ghosts in the Culture Queer Sea: An Amble through jam ismail’s Work hibiscus mentioned that mushrooms are good for cholesterol. jaggery scoffed: what d’you mean, good for! chesnut dehisced: she means good against, good...
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...
by DJ Fraser Metonymy Press, the newly launched English-language press out of Montreal, is focused on unity and representation, filling a void in English-language publishing in Montreal’s hyperactive queer creative scene. Through experience in the Montreal arts and literature scene...
When Plenitude invited me to write about a book, I was paralyzed. You see, I’m like the guys who work in the record store in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity with their top-five lists of songs for every occasion. Except instead of songs, I have top-five book lists. For instance, I could do a top-five...
