Table of Contents Letter from the Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack Welcome to WordCity Literary Journal’s November 2021 issue. If you visit this space often, you will have noticed that our back issues, which first appeared on Time of the Poet Republic, are being reproduced here, on our dedicated site. We hope that Mbizo Chirasha isContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. November 2021. Issue 12”
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Editorial Epiphanies. With Sue Burge, featuring the editors of WordCity Literary Journal
Editorial Epiphanies Word City has a raft of brilliant and talented editors. I joined them just over a year ago and have been humbled by their expertise and commitment. So, this month I asked the team to share their moments of epiphany: the piece of writing advice that changed them and helped them develop duringContinue reading “Editorial Epiphanies. With Sue Burge, featuring the editors of WordCity Literary Journal”
WordCity Literary Journal. December 2020 Issue 4
Letter from the Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack When we decided to create an Autumn and Winter Holiday-themed issue of WordCity for December, we had hoped to gather together a celebration of as many religious, cultural and seasonal offerings as possible. We hoped. We held our breath. And then, poets and writers began to respond. WeContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. December 2020 Issue 4”
The Tourist Visa. A poem by Sylvia Petter
The Tourist Visa “The North Pole is melting so where do we go?” “Why, off to the Jungfrau, she’s covered in snow. I’ll call myself Rudi,” the last reindeer said, “and we’ll fly down to earth and just park our sled.” “But what about visas? They’re sticklers, I hear. We can’t say we doContinue reading “The Tourist Visa. A poem by Sylvia Petter”
WordCity Literary Journal. November 2020 Issue 3
Letter from the Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack I wrote what will follow before the election in the United States was called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I’m tempted to delete and replace it with nothing more than this quote from a beloved leader, Jack Layton, in his posthumous letter to my country. My friends,Continue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. November 2020 Issue 3”
WordCity Literary Journal. October 2020 Issue 2
Letter from the Editor: Darcie Friesen Hossack On my desk is a copy of D-L Nelson’s coat hangers & knitting needles, Tragedies of Abortion in America Before Roe v. Wade. The book is heavy for its size—not for the weight of its bindings—and has been accompanying me from room to room since it arrived hereContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. October 2020 Issue 2”
WordCity Literary Journal. September 2020 Issue 1
Letter from the Editor: Darcie Friesen Hossack I wrote a letter from the editor for this, our first issue of WordCity Monthly. I wrote about the pandemic, and how governments were using it as cover to defund and commit aggression against the arts. I wrote about how writers and poets have responded by creating more,Continue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. September 2020 Issue 1”
WordCity Literary Journal. 100 Thousand Poets for Change
Table of Contents Letter From the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Welcome to WordCity Literary Journal’s September 2021 issue. For this month’s theme, we joined the 100 Thousand Poets for Change movement, and sought works to shine light into dark places. As ever, more brilliant writers and poets than we ever expect, came together with theirContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. 100 Thousand Poets for Change”
WordCity Literary Journal. July 2021
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack Welcome to WordCity Literary Journal’s July 2021 issue. For this collection, while we accepted works that address many different themes, we also expanded on one that was brought forward by our fiction editor, Sylvia Petter. Sylvia noted that 2021 marks only 50 years since WomenContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. July 2021”
A Focus on Fiction by Sylvia Petter
In the beginning was the story ….it´s always the story. This fiction issue has long and shorter stories about persons who don´t necessarily fit the expected mould. In Mitchell Toews’ “The Log Boom”, a father and son deliberate on how to inform émigré Dutch grandfather of his grandson´s coming out. Gerald Shephard´s “The Silent Imagination”Continue reading “A Focus on Fiction by Sylvia Petter”
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