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Call for Manuscripts on Health and Mental Health ~ Final issue of WordCity Literary Journal

From the desk of managing editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack: With a mixture of gratitude and no small amount of team sorrow, we announce our final issue of WordCity Literary Journal. As readers and contributors to our journal might imagine, an all-volunteer project like WordCity is an immense undertaking. For my part, as managing editor, carryingContinue reading “Call for Manuscripts on Health and Mental Health ~ Final issue of WordCity Literary Journal”

Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. Winter 2024

Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter Reckless. by William Cass Dad’s Work. by Maria Saba Non-fiction. Edited by Olga Stein Conversation. Olga Stein and Yahia Lababidi Woman, Life, Freedom: Reflections on the Anthology and on Activism in the Arts.by Cy Strom Literary Spotlight. Lisa Pasold in Conversation with SueContinue reading “Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. Winter 2024”

Winter 2024. Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack

Another child is dying in Gaza as I type. Another one now. And now. And now. A mother slides into the blood of what’s left of her son, her daughter, and picks up a severed hand to hold, one last time. A father gathers the pieces of his children into a Ziploc bag so theyContinue reading “Winter 2024. Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack”

In the Slips. A poem by Pratibha Castle

In the Slips While the world watches, Violetta, clad in yearsthe measure of a week,journeys from Odessa with her doll and cat and a Granny, face a crumpled map of lifetime drills framed by a scarf the colour of losscompels a soldier boyput this flower in your pocket hopes his flesh, rotted into trampled mudboneContinue reading “In the Slips. A poem by Pratibha Castle”

Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023

This page is under construction! Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter Non-fiction. Edited by Olga Stein Books and Reviews. Edited by Geraldine Sinyuy Poetry. Edited by Clara Burghelea Return to Journal WordCity Literary Journal is provided free to readers from all around the world, and there is no costContinue reading “Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023”

Letter from the Editor. WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023

On October 7th, Hamas terrorists breached the fence separating Gaza from Israel and tortured, raped, mutilated and murdered at least 1200 women, men and children. 1200 women, men and children. Dead. Before taking an estimated 240 others into captivity as hostages. Israel’s far-right leaders soon responded to these atrocities with war, and after weeks ofContinue reading “Letter from the Editor. WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023”

Words Ignoring Wars. A review of books by Gordon Phinn

Words Ignoring Wars Books Referenced: Agent of Change, Huda Mukbil (McGill/Queens 2023)Tabula Rasa, John McFee (Farrar, Straus &Giroux 2023)Paper Trails, Roy MacGregor (Random House Canada 2023)Notes on a Writer’s Life, David Adams Richards (Pottersfield Press 2023)The Last News Vendor, Michael Mirolla (Quattro Books 2019)Maze, Hugh Thomas (Invisible Publishing 2019)Jangle Straw, Hugh Thomas (Turret House 2023)CellSea,Continue reading “Words Ignoring Wars. A review of books by Gordon Phinn”

Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies. Diana Manole Reviews Clara Burghelea’s Praise the Unburied

Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies Clara Burghelea, Praise the Unburied (Dublin: Chaffinch Press. 2021) Praise the Unburied, Clara Burghelea’s second poetry collection, starts with the motto, “Every poem is the story of itself” (Tracy K. Smith), foreshadowing a metaliterary discourse. In a postmodern gesture, the poet indeed allows each poem to testify about itself,Continue reading “Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies. Diana Manole Reviews Clara Burghelea’s Praise the Unburied”

Books for Your Christmas Lists!

ARRESTED SONG by Irena Karafilly Calliope Adham – young, strong-willed, and recently widowed – is schoolmistress in the village of Molyvos when Hitler’s army invades Greece in 1941. Well-read and linguistically gifted, she is recruited by the Germans to act as their liaison officer. It is the beginning of a personal and national saga thatContinue reading “Books for Your Christmas Lists!”