Editorial: Closing Remarks Dear Readers, As we appear to be on the last edition of WordCity, I want to take a moment to thank all of you for your support and attention to our magazine. We started this project in 2020, at the height of a world-shattering pandemic, and we’ve continued it through events thatContinue reading “Editorial: Closing Remarks. By Olga Stein”
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Conversation. Olga Stein and Yahia Lababidi
Conversation He who fights monsters should see to it that, in the process, he does not become a monster. — Nietzsche Open Letter To Israel By Yahia Lababidi Tell me, what steel entered your heart, what fear made you rabid, what hate drove out pity? How could you forget that how we fightContinue reading “Conversation. Olga Stein and Yahia Lababidi”
WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023
©®| 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 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,Continue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023”
The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian. Excerpt from the Introduction by Olga Stein
The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian. Excerpt from the Introduction by Olga Stein But regardless of whether or not the Giller declares an interest in ideas of nation when selecting juries, the prize does present a vision of Canadian literature. The visibility of a select group of works chosen by an awards jury contributes toContinue reading “The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian. Excerpt from the Introduction by Olga Stein”
WordCity Literary Journal. Summer 2023
©®| 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”
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”
Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein
Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire: The Soviet Jew in Full Colour Mikhail Iossel’s collection of memoir and lyrical pieces, Love Like Water, Love Like Fire, bears witness to a particular kind of experience — that of living and identifying as a Jew in the Soviet Union (now former Soviet Union) during theContinue reading “Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein”
WordCity Literary Journal. Spring 2023
©®| 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 In February 2012, just more than a year after the publication of my first collection of short stories, I broke my back. That is the easiest wayContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. Spring 2023”
Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein
Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking I haven’t attended a lecture or author reading since COVID. The pandemic was reason enough not to go anywhere crowded, and since — well, since then I’ve had to overcome certain habits of mind, as well as a tendency to prioritize tasks thatContinue reading “Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein”
Couples. fiction by Olga Stein
COUPLES More than a decade has passed since the events I’m about to recount took place. It’s important to state this at the outset because the early 2000s seem like a different world. It was possible then not to know things. It was conceivable that a writer could ‘borrow’—ideas, even characters—without committing a theft, andContinue reading “Couples. fiction by Olga Stein”
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