The Humber Literary Review

// fiction

J.P. Letkemann “Old Souls”

Sarah McRae  “Black Ice”

Hana Mason “Lifetimes”

V.J. Hamilton “Seven”

// poetry

Stephen Joffe [Three Poems]

Jennifer Cox [One Poem]

Kirsteen MacLeod [One Poem]

Juliana Putri Tan [Four Poems]

// creative nonfiction

Lisa Baird “What the Black Bears Knew”

Daphnée Lévesque “House By Design Special Episode:
Psych Wards”

Grant Black “The Mortuary Jester”

Hiko Mitsuzuka “In Honour of The Half-Asian Heartthrob”

// comics

Juli Delporte  “Escape Plan” & “Dating”

// issue art

Chantal Khoury

Luke Painter (issue art)

Eric Rausch “Rot” (fiction)

Misha Solomon Three Poems (poetry)

Gin Sexsmith “What’s With All the Gay?” (CNF)

Adebe DeRango-Adem Two Poems (poetry)

Murgatroyd Monaghan “The Train” (CNF)

Joel Fishbane “The Only Twin” (fiction)

Reagen Montaque “Spring Sinners” (poetry)

Laura Ollerenshaw “Of Least Concern” (CNF)

Xiaoxiao Li “Suicide Camp” (Excerpt from The Slenderest of Leashes) (comic)

Y.S. Lee Two Poems (poetry)

Cornelia Mars “Icebreaker” (CNF)

Paul Sasges “P=VI” (fiction)

D.D. Miller “Making Moments Matter: An Interview with Shashi Bhat” (interview)

Steven Beckly (issue art)

Owen Schalk “Speaking in Regrets” (fiction) Winner 2024 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Rob Winger [Three poems] (poetry)

Aga Maksimowska “Monocultures” (CNF)

Lynda Williams “Berman” (fiction) Second Place 2024 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Shauna Andrews [Two poems] (poetry)

Shane Neilson “Blurring the Borderline” (CNF)

Rayyan Kamal “A Son’s Confession” (fiction) Third Place 2024 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Vivian Li [Two poems] (poetry)

Amara Dhal “Mark of the Soucouyant” (fiction)

Stanley Wany [Comic] (comic)

Garrett Dwyer Joyce “Extra Gang” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2024 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Aaron Rabinowitz [Three poems] (poetry)

Lea Armata “My Nonno” (CNF)

Scott Johnson “The Deadliners” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2024 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Carleigh Baker (interview)

Heather Goodchild (issue art)

Catherine Austen “Welcome to the Margins” (Fiction)

Raymond Gariépy “The Unborn and Born Dead Are Yet Among Us” (2023 CNFC/HLR Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner)

Jessica Bebenek Two Poems (Poetry)

Gary Barwin “My Father, Nazi Ventriloquist” (Fiction)

Heather Babcock “Fifty Dollars for the Powder Room” (CNF)

Catherine St. Denis Three Poems (Poetry)

Larry Baer “Dinner” (Fiction)

Karen Shangguang “Wind” (Comic)

Kate Bird “About Face” (CNF)

Eli Mushumanski “Hospital Beds” (Fiction)

Léa Taranto “Why Juk Makes Me Cry” (CNF)

Patricia Arhinson Two Poems (Poetry)

Waubgeshig Rice “Authentically Anishinaabe” (Interview)

Sara Angelucci (issue art)

Sue Murtagh “Rescuing Spiderman” (Fiction)

Ana Rodriguez Machado Three Poems (Poetry)

H Felix Chau Bradley “Second Appointment” (Fiction)

Alison Colwell “Fairy Tale Fathers” (CNF)

Blessing O. Nwodo Three Poems (Poetry)

Morgan Dick “Autopilot Malfunction” (Fiction)

Carla Harris “A Slowest Growing” (CNF)

Matthew Rooney Two Poems (Poetry)

K.R. Byggdin “Good Night, Reverend” (Fiction)

Brigitte Archambault Excerpt from The Shiatsung Project (Comic)

Michelle Winters “Happy Song” (Fiction)

Sneha Subramanian Kanta “Doetinchem” (Poetry)

Adelle Purdham “Navel-Gazing, a Revolution & a Love Story” (CNF)

Eric Rausch “Not Built to Last” (Fiction)

Catriona Wright “A Poet of Ugliness” (Interview)

Keita Morimoto (issue art)

Taslim Jaffer “Survival” (CNFC contest winner)

Nancy Jo Cullen Two Poems (Poetry)

Louise Sidley “Footsteps” (Fiction)

Maryam Rafiee “Queen of the Mountains” (CNF)

Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal Two Poems (Poetry)

Katherine Barrett “Shore” (Fiction)

Catherine Lewis “Liminal” (CNF)

Andrea Scott Two Poems (Poetry)

Sid Sharp “The One Day Only” (Comic)

Sacha Archer Two Poems (Poetry)

Luciana Erregue “As We Sit at the Table” (CNF)

Jan Sims “Girl, Lost in Thought” (Fiction)

Jessica Lee McMillan Two Poems (Poetry)

Daniel Scott Tysdal “Transcedance Through Immersion” (Interview)

Noni Kaur (issue art)

Rebecca Morris “Exercises Au Subjonctif” (fiction) Winner 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest 

Karan Kapoor “A Mosaic of My Father” (poetry) 

Leslie Alexander “Booty Call (CNF) 

Anne Walk “Sweepers”(fiction) Second Place 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest 

Mark Truscott “Like” (poetry) 

Doris Corcese “Next of Kin” (CNF) 

Molly McCarron “Corpse Reviver” (fiction) Third Place 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest 

Catherine Lewis “for my husband on Father’s Day” (poetry) 

Pascal Girard [Four Comics] (comic) 

Tamara Jong “Saints, Fears. Fathers, Origins: A Diptych” (CNF) 

Jen Batler “Lost and Found at the Museum for Broken Relationships” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest 

Shannan Mann “For Another” (poetry) 

Rebekah Skochinski “Goodspeed” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest 

Emily Willan “Living the Hobbit Life” (CNF)

Lynda Williams “Least Interesting Thing” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest 

Naben Ruthnum (interview) 

Braxton Santiago-Garneau (issue art)

Mehdi M. Kashani “The Fruit on the Farthest Branch” (fiction)

Rasiqra Revulva “Sepiodae” (poetry—Ontario D/eaf/HoH, Disabled, Sick, Mad and Neuroatypical Poetics Collective feature)

Annahid Dashtgard “Bad Immigrant” (essay) 

Ava Fathi “Mother, Wash Me Clean” (fiction)

Salma Hussain “The Silliest Lunch Bunch”(poetry)

Dominik Parisien “On Washrooms and Their Synonyms” (essay)

Graeme Desrosier “The Hunt” (fiction)

Jedidiah Mugarura “Before love was a word, it was” (poetry)

Kimberly Edgar “The Fruit of Strange Soils” (comic) 

Becky Blake “Ingenue” (essay—winner of the 2021 Creative Nonfiction Collective contest)

Ashley Goldberg “One of the Boys” (fiction)

Angela Kirby “Bitter Astronomer” (poetry)

Rebecca Fisseha “A Shared Afternoon” (essay)

Nathan Whitlock “Books are Weird and Difficult and Hard” (Interview with Casey Plett)

Elaine Whittaker (issue art)

Francine Cunningham “God Isn’t Here” (fiction)

Laura Cok Three Poems (poetry)

Kelly S. Thompson  “Recordings of Truths and Facts” (essay)

Vanessa Reid “The Egg” (fiction)

Klara du Plessis One Poem (poetry)

Gloria Blizzard  “Black Cake Buddhism” (essay)

Phoebe Tsang “Vintage Chanel and a Paper Fan” (fiction)

Ben Robinson Two Poems (poetry)

Eunice Cu “Blueberry Imprints” (essay: InkWell feature)

Cole Pauls “Punks Pizza Party” (comic)

Sara Patterson “I’ve Been Fucking Dinosaurs in an Effort to Reclaim My Ability to Transform into a Velociraptor” (essay)

Shelly Kawaja “The Homeless Garden Project” (fiction)

John Pender Three Poems (poetry)

Logan Broeckaert "Like Father, Like Son" (essay)

Cara Nelissen “Everything Is Enough” (fiction)

Meaghan Strimas “Stories Are Life” (Interview with Jael Richardson)

Howie Tsui (issue art)

Zalika Reid-Benta “Bashment” (fiction)

Catriona Wright Two Poems (poetry)

Margaret Nowaczyk “A Mother-Daughter Phrasebook: Definitions” (essay). Winner of the 2020 Creative Nonfiction Collective (CNFC) contest

Eva Crocker “Life Drawing” (fiction)

Tolu Oloruntoba “1887: A Kidnap from Opobo” (poetry)

Liz Johnston “Scoring” (fiction)

Susan Olding “Past Lives” (essay)

Hajera Khaja “Tomorrow You Will Be My Best Friend” (fiction)

Marta Chudolinska “After” (comic)

Pete Gibbon Three Poems (poetry)

Lori Sebastianutti “A Retrospective Look at Hair, Hatred, and Healing” (essay)

Yolande House “Another Secret” (essay)

Luke Sawczak “Year of Summer” (poetry)

Stacy Penner “When You See It, You Don’t” (fiction)

Nathan Whitlock “Phillipa Chong: Power and Precarity in the World of Reviews” (Interview)

Joan Butterfield (issue art)

Pamela Dillon “Harvest” (fiction)—Winner 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Eva H.D. “Love Poem with Potholes” (poetry)

Chido Muchemwa “Who Will Bury You”(fiction) Second Place 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Zoe Imani Sharpe excerpt from “[The Pool]” (poetry)

Nina Dunic “Bodies” (fiction) Third Place 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Jennifer LoveGrove “Citrus grandis, Lycopene flush, grapefruit diet: a sonnet” (poetry)

Jann Everard “Memento Mori” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Joseph Kakwinokanasum “Cipayak” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

James Pollock three poems (poetry)

Fraser Calderwood “North Portal, SK” (fiction) Honourable Mention 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest

Alëna Skarina “Kidney Beans” (comic)

Mark Anthony Jarman “What Would Jesus’s Robot Do?” (essay)

George Zancola two poems (poetry) Featured InkWell writer

Brittani Birch “Defeated by Janelle Tayler” (essay)

Nancy Jo Cullen (interview)

Ally McIntyre (issue art)

Jess Taylor “Aquafit” (fiction)

Deborah Elderhorst “Foreign Object” (essay)—Winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective/Humber Literary Review Creative Nonfiction Contest

Ojo Taiye “Self-Portrait as a Postscript in the Civil War”(poetry)

Sophie Holdstock “Frank” (fiction)

Rowan McCandless “Intro to Photography” (essay)

Annick MacAskill “Inverness County” (poetry)

Dakota McFadzean “Excerpt from Murray Geister: Paranormal Investigator” (comic)

Anuja Varghese “Chrysalis” (fiction)

Emily Kellogg “Blonde Jokes” (essay)

Aaron Kreuter  “Capitalism Gets an Origin Story” (poetry)

Yasuko Thanh (interview)

Rudrapriya Rathore “The Girls Who Come in Threes” (fiction)

Adriana Oniță “Descântec for my split tongue” (poetry)

Kent Monkman (issue art)

Danila Botha “Aloha State” (fiction)

Leonarda Carranza “When you were someone else” (essay)

Paul Vermeersch Sonnet Suite (poetry)

Brian Clark “Delivery” (fiction)

Greta DeLonghi “How to Find a Parking Spot” (essay)

Adam Sol Two Poems (poetry)

Wenting Li “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (comic)

 Anne Baldo “Gone Fishing” (fiction)

Chimwemwe Undi  “Caconym” (poetry)

Dominik Parisien “I’m sorry, mon ami” (essay)

Will Johnson Interview with Waub Rice (interview)

John Elizabeth Stintzi “Good Luck Ward” (fiction)

Jeannie Phan (issue art)

Melanie Mah (essay)

Kathy Friedman (story)

Karen Lee (poem)

Kate Gies (essay)

Susan Scott (essay)

Fiona Smith (comic)

Lisa Metrikin (story)

Margaret Christakos (2 poems)

Susan Carpenter (story)

Nailah King (story)

John Robert Lee (poem)

Patrick deWitt (interview)

Claudia Dey (interview)

Padloo Samayualie (issue art)

Meg Todd 

Michael Eden Reynolds

Jessica Westhead

GG (Comic) 

David Alexander 

Collette Maitland

Leesa Dean  

Marie Pike

Basia Gilas

Sheung-King

Elana Wolff

Kris Bertin Interview