Congratulations to the sixteen Canadian authors who are finalists for Lambda Literary Awards this year! Some Plenitude friends are on the list, too! This year’s Emerging Writer Mentorship Award mentor, Shani Mootoo, is a finalist in the transgender fiction category for Moving Forward Sideways...
Jim Nason Here, above/ cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight. —Elizabeth Bishop [mks_dropcap style=”square” size=”35″ bg_color=”#505556″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]K[/mks_dropcap]ent had snuck the tent and two sleeping bags...
Arleen Paré (Victoria) “One of my favourite books is The True Story of Ida Johnson, a slim volume of exemplary Canadian fiction written by Alberta writer Sharon Riis and published in 1976. I read it years ago, twice. “I love the novel for its sharp exquisite prose and for its commitment...
by Derek Bedry In Cyrille Martinez’s “surreal parable” The Sleepworker, a strange fictionalized telling of Andy Warhol and John Giorgio’s creation of the film Sleep, the narrator seems to float detached above the action, an alien observer. This foreigner watches the neighbourhoods of “New York New...
Daniel Gawthrop (New Westminster) “Reading Alan Hollinghurst is a guilty pleasure on par with eating foie gras: you know you probably shouldn’t—the very idea seems decadent and passé, redolent of neocolonial tastes—but oh, how the finer notes linger on the palate. “Hollinghurst’s class...
Ruth Daniell Everything came back to me, in snippets, later, after the smell of his cologne on a stranger wafted through the doors of a bus and the details swept into me like dirt maltreated by a broom— his hands on me, his eyes seeing my fear and ignoring it, his voice telling me to stay...
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...
Lydia Kwa (Vancouver) “I don’t remember exactly how I came across Adrienne Rich’s poetry, but when I read Dream of a Common Language while studying psychology at Queen’s University, and having just come out as a lesbian around that time, Rich’s earthy yet deeply philosophical poems gave...
Calvin Gimpelevich [mks_dropcap style=”square” size=”35″ bg_color=”#505556″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]I[/mks_dropcap] met Gina sobbing on the bike racks behind my work. She paused to hiccup and check her cell-phone display before heaving into another...
