©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack For this issue, we asked writers to delve into The Right to Read. For writers, this right is also, inextricably, linked to the right to write. AndContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. Summer 2023”
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WCLJ summer 2023. Table of Contents
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Letter from the editor. WCLJ summer 2023
From the desk of WCLJ Managing Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack For this issue, we asked writers to delve into The Right to Read. For writers, this right is also, inextricably, linked to the right to write. And this, with the right to safely, and with dignity, enter spaces that exist to promote our written words.Continue reading “Letter from the editor. WCLJ summer 2023”
Rewriting Feminisms: Trans Women Poets from the League of Canadian Poets
From WCLJ Managing Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack: Trigger Warning for introduction: violence against trans community In April of this year, during National Poetry Month, I was invited to Rewriting Feminisms: Trans Women Poetry Reading. Generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the League of Canadian Poets, the event showcased the work ofContinue reading “Rewriting Feminisms: Trans Women Poets from the League of Canadian Poets”
Words Written on a Thrown Vase. fiction by Rachel J Fenton
Words Written on a Thrown Vase Teen was a word still used to describe her when you met her at the university library, your place of work. Teen is the word that describes the number of years you are older than her. I called you a predator when I worked that out, but you disagreedContinue reading “Words Written on a Thrown Vase. fiction by Rachel J Fenton”
Three Things You Should Know About Jarod J. Brinkley III. fiction by by Jen Ippensen
Three Things You Should Know About Jarod J. Brinkley III after Lindsay Hunter CW: Sexual Assault One. Jarod J. Brinkley III has a 6th grade spelling bee trophy on a shelf above the desk in his private room at the Quads on campus at Wesleyan, his first choice of private schools where, because his fatherContinue reading “Three Things You Should Know About Jarod J. Brinkley III. fiction by by Jen Ippensen”
Multiple Choice. fiction by Cheryl Snell
Multiple Choice A novel/short story/ poem are lost in a library. A student/scholar/amateur rescues them and checks them out, but will not share with her classmates/professors/ habitués of coffee shops. They upend/shake out /Heimlich her newfound knowledge from her, but find she has already eaten/swallowed/assimilated it. The knowledge is her, she is the knowledge. TheyContinue reading “Multiple Choice. fiction by Cheryl Snell”
There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Say To You. fiction by Danila Botha
There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Say To You “I just laughed, what else could I do? And her friend chimed in singing get a clue/ Get a life, put it in your song/ There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you…” ~Brendan Benson, Metarie I wrote my first message and displayedContinue reading “There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Say To You. fiction by Danila Botha”
That’s My Baby in the Echo Chamber. fiction by Dave Nash
That’s My Baby in the Echo Chamber No. We didn’t pay extra so he could yell the whole plane ride down from Newark to Orlando. We never ceased to be horrified and embarrassed and concerned for him. Since you don’t want to believe me, I’ll tell you a corroborating story. I was walking him yesterdayContinue reading “That’s My Baby in the Echo Chamber. fiction by Dave Nash”
Non-Fiction: Editor’s note on Censorship and its Erasures. Olga Stein
Non-Fiction: Editor’s note on Censorship and its Erasures Our Summer 2023 issue is finally here, and I, along with all of our editors, wish to thank contributors and readers for their continuing interest and patience. The theme of censorship is an important one, as the news reaching us daily from the United States and RussiaContinue reading “Non-Fiction: Editor’s note on Censorship and its Erasures. Olga Stein”
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