In her debut collection, Second Growth, Canadian Poet Fabinne Calvert Filteau writes of planting trees in northern BC after clearcut, and about being the second growth daughter of a mother who attempted suicide throughout her childhood. She uses both traditional and experimental stanzas throughout the book. As someone who is less comfortable with anything other…
Month: January 2018
The Little Things – Microwork
The Many Brands of Loneliness Empty pens, Empty heads, Empty smiles, and Empty beds. Emma Hastie moved to Toronto From Calgary, Alberta and realized she might have been a city girl trapped in a small town. She likes to consider herself a Jack of all trades while blatantly ignoring the latter part of the saying….
A Word from the Editor
What an exciting week it’s been since announcing the release of “Raising Her Voice” is Issue 5.4! It’s been so great to watch the buzz on social media and hear from people who have gotten their copy of the anthology. I’m so very proud of the work of each and every woman who contributed to…
Issue 5.5 – Nonfiction
The scar on my breast is a dark reddish brown, fading slowly at the edges. It is curved, like a parenthesis. There is a slight indentation, a flat spot under the blemish that shows when I stand in profile. The scar is hidden, even by my most revealing bathing suit. Most of the time I…
Issue 5.5 – Fiction
The first year I lived in a very tall building. The tower was plain, ugly even, despite its remarkable height. It was a place to live. From my window, I could see the offices of electronics companies and, when the haze wasn’t bad, a flat ribbon of the river. The haze was usually bad. Some…
Issue 5.5 – Poetry
I’m breaking out of this hell I called home. I will not sit in this rancid, rotten underground dome. I’m showing no mercy to my tormentors, no, the demons who killed me, who broke me to my bones. I’m taking over this dungeon, I’m holding on to hope— to renewed dreams— and I’m…
Serial – Little River – Chapter 12
* New to Little River or behind in reading? Find all the previous chapters here. “Well, look who’s here!” Josiah Jackson called out from his seat on his father’s porch swing. Abigail pressed her sweaty palms against her blue jeans, and called back, “Where is everybody?” Josiah spit a stream of dark liquid into an empty Mountain Dew…
Book Review – What We Lose
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons is a novel written in first person. Thandi, the narrator, talks to us of the pain of being who she is, as the daughter of a Coloured South African mother and an African American father, as a black girl growing up in a mostly…
The Little Things – Microwork
How to Attract Birds to Your Yard Your hair should be neat and freshly washed. You should be reading a recommended book and the book should open its wings as the world changes. Locate that book. Amy Newman is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently On This Day in Poetry History. Her poems…
A Word from the Editor
I am so excited today to announce the release of our first annual anthology Raising Her Voice! Included in the anthology are both some of the best work we received in 2017 and also new and unpublished work, including the winners of our 2017 writing competitions. There are essays, short stories, and poetry by twenty-one women…
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