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11/20/2024

We are grateful to honour Roy Miki through the reflections of Fred Wah, published as part of The Capilano Review's From the Archives series.

"From the Archives / Remember the Future: Remembering Roy Miki (1942–2024)" by Fred Wah is now available on our website:
https://thecapilanoreview.com/from-the-archives-remember-the-future-remembering-roy-miki-1942-2024/

Image: Roy Miki, "Photo montage of Miki family and friends at Ste Agathe, Manitoba."

10/31/2024

The Capilano Review is pleased to invite submissions to its Fall 2024 Writing Contest, “Dedications,” guest-judged by Shiv Kotecha.

A poet once told another poet, trust your reader, trust that they’re there. Poems do this—they flirt, provoke, and reenact the stuff of relation, soliciting the attention of their readers to the actuality of our shared world. This is a call for works that aim to close the gap between writer and reader and for poems that seek to embrace or envision, exceeding the realm of the autonomous. How might a poem reflect the cohesions or contradictions that sustain a friendship or a social world, or the outlets and limit-points of commitment, whether that be one of love or hate? How does poetic practice cite, simulate, or parrot the strange shape taken by intimacy, with its penchant to fixate or obsess, the space it makes to allow for ambivalence, the time it takes to foment or unfold completely? Works engaging the essay, fiction, poetry, and other language-based interdisciplinary methods are encouraged.

The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in an upcoming print issue of The Capilano Review.

Image: Shiv Kotecha. Photo by Bobby Doherty.

Learn more and submit your work by November 30: https://thecapilanoreview.com/dedications-fall-2024-writing-contest/

10/29/2024

We are excited to announce the publication of our latest web folio, ti-TCR 20: On Collective Care.

Edited by Emma Jeffrey, ti-TCR 20: On Collective Care examines the potential of art and writing to expand our capacity for empathy and care on a collective scale, and to activate tangible forms of community-building. Why write poetry during the apocalypse, if not for the hope of a kinder world?

With contributions by Belén, Kristin Bjornerud, Leah CL, Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal, Mark Foss, Christina Hajjar, Amanda Hiland, Penn Kemp, Alysha Mohamed, Dora Prieto, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, and Jasper Wrinch.

You can read and download the issue on our website: https://thecapilanoreview.com/project/ti-tcr-20/

Cover: Kristin Bjornerud, Ghosts (Tender Medicine), 2023, watercolour and gouache on paper adhered to wooden panel, 48.26 x 53.34 cm. Photo by Paul Litherland, Studio Lux.

10/25/2024

We're excited to share the next piece in our Indigenous Places and Names Series, curated by Associate Editor Susan Blight. '“Yet we persist”: An Interview with Dr. Robin Gray on Place Names as a Mode of Restorative Justice for Indigenous Peoples' is now available on our website.

Read the conversation between Susan Blight and Dr. Robin Gray here: https://thecapilanoreview.com/yet-we-persist-an-interview-with-dr-robin-gray-on-place-names-as-a-mode-of-restorative-justice-for-indigenous-peoples/

10/22/2024

As we head into our fall fundraising season, we are filled with gratitude for this community and for everything that you have made possible for The Capilano Review over the past twelve months. The Capilano Review continues to be a unique publication that celebrates experimental, contemporary art and writing, and it is heartwarming to see such enthusiastic support for this work.

2024 has been an inspiring yet challenging year. In June, we had to make the difficult decision to move to a biannual publication schedule to address the continual rise in printing and production costs. While we are excited about the new editorial and artistic opportunities this shift provides, we are still needing to dedicate significant energy towards fundraising at this time in order to cover the mounting material costs of producing our magazine.

We need to raise $30,000 by December 31, 2024 in order to continue this exciting work throughout 2025. If you are in a place to do so, we would be enormously grateful if you could offer a donation and help The Capilano Review continue its work for another year. Every little bit helps.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Donate today: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/capilano-review-contemporary-arts-society/campaign/support-the-capilano-review-into-2025/?mc_cid=fc3be30944&mc_eid=UNIQID

10/18/2024

As Issue 4.3 Real Materials (Fall 2024) begins to circulate, we are thrilled to continue sharing some excerpts that are now available to read online as web features.

ryan fitzpatrick's "Well, Okay" offers a grounding conclusion to Real Materials, anchoring us in the present moment. Read the full poem on our website: https://thecapilanoreview.com/well-okay/

You can purchase your own print or digital copy of Issue 4.3: Real Materials, or subscribe to The Capilano Review to receive Real Materials and our Spring 2025 issue delivered right to your mailbox.

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09/24/2024

We are thrilled to have Jordan Abel joining us as our 2024 Writer in Residence!

We welcome you to attend a writing workshop with Abel on Saturday, October 5th from 2-4pm at Western Front. In this creative writing workshop we will be focusing on overcoming obstacles in our writing practices through a problem-based approach. We will tackle central issues in your writing—questions that may arise include engagements with ethics, narrative, positionality, and representation—and we will explore how to find your way through these issues in a way that makes for engaging, dynamic writing.

Learn more and register: https://thecapilanoreview.com/writing-workshop-with-jordan-abel/

09/23/2024

The Capilano Review is delighted to welcome our 2024 Writer-in-Residence, Jordan Abel!

Jordan Abel is a q***r Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and I***n (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). NISHGA won both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres award, and was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Abel’s latest work—a novel titled Empty Spaces—was published by McClelland & Stewart and Yale University Press, and was a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award. Abel completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University in 2019, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures, Research-Creation, and Creative Writing.

Presented in partnership with Western Front, Abel’s residency will consist of a week-long stay in Vancouver in early October to read as part of our monthly reading series Dear Friends & on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:30pm, and to lead a generative writing workshop on Saturday, October 5th at 2:00pm. We look forward to welcoming you to one or both or these community events.

09/18/2024

We're excited to share a new see to see— review by J Shea Carter, now available on our website.

J Shea Carter offers an insightful and attentive read of Klara du Plessis’ "I’mpossible collab," (Gaspereau, 2023).

"Du Plessis [...] channels her creative talents throughout "I’mpossible collab" to call into question the increasingly antiquated misconception that the modern-day critic, essayist, and scholar works in solitude as if solely accompanied by the dim, artificial glow of their computer screen. Indeed, du Plessis approaches critical writing through her own unique lens as a poet to assert a more synergetic approach to literary criticism — foregrounding the notion that writing about poetry is about writing with or in relation to it."

Read the full review here:
https://thecapilanoreview.com/need-not-be-an-island-entirely-of-herself/

09/13/2024

We are pleased to announce the winner and honourable mentions of our 2024 Spring Writing Contest, "Environments," as selected by guest judge Renee Gladman.

The winning selection of poems are by Douglas Kerr.

About the winner:
Douglas Kerr is a poet and educator. He helped start Stanford University’s Online High School where he teaches English and runs the creative writing program. He lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

TCR would like to extend additional congratulations to the shortlisted writers:
Subhanya Sivajothy (Toronto, ON) for “The Mouth is an Armory,” “Time Theft Horizon,” and “Daily Commute”
Christina Vega-Westhoff (Buffalo, NY) for “custom(e) cut”

Congratulations to our winner and shortlist, and thank you to all who submitted!

Image: Douglas Kerr. Photograph by Jane Bear Gwin-Kerr.

08/28/2024

The Capilano Review's submission period opens for two weeks on September 9th!

We welcome submissions of boundary-pushing, innovative writing across a variety of genres and forms, including but not limited to: poetry, experimental fiction, personal/poetic essay, creative nonfiction, and hybrid forms.

Writers are also welcome to pitch ideas for long-form critical essays (1500-2500 words) on contemporary art or artists, ideas for our online see to see section—reviews of recent or forthcoming literary/art books (500 words)—and ideas for feature interviews with authors and artists that may be of interest to our readership.

Details:
- Submission period: September 9-23, 2024.
- Submission to our open reading period is free.
- Accepted submissions of poetry and prose will be compensated at a rate of $50 CAD per page upon publication.
- Flat rate fees for commissioned interviews and critical texts range from $200–$500 CAD depending on length and scope and will be discussed upon acceptance of a pitch.
- Accepted work will be published in the 2025 publication year.
- Submit online through https://thecapilanoreview.submittable.com/submit

Learn more: https://thecapilanoreview.com/open-call-for-submissions-september-9-23-2024/

08/24/2024

As we eagerly await the printing of Issue 4.3: Real Materials, we are excited to offer you a glimpse of the work inside.

"All These Connections and Materials Take a Lifetime": A Conversation with Atheana Picha and Aaron Nelson-Moody, by Emily Dundas Oke, is now available to read online. We are excited to share this conversation with you, and look forward to offering more art and literature from Real Materials as we move into the fall.

Read the full conversation online: https://thecapilanoreview.com/all-these-connections-and-materials-take-a-lifetime-a-conversation-with-atheana-picha-and-aaron-nelson-moody/

Pre-order your copy of Issue 4.3: Real Materials: https://thecapilanoreview.com/product/issue-4-3-real-materials-print/

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08/20/2024

The Capilano Review is excited to announce our upcoming Fall 2024 issue! Issue 4.3: Real Materials is the first art-focused issue of The Capilano Review in nearly a decade, re-upping an ethos of deep thinking, close making. It engages a variety of artists working today to ask: What are the real materials with which you work? What material conditions guide, inform, or sustain your making? The contributors to this issue centre modes of listening to and learning from materials, modelling how curiosity, humility, and sensitivity to lesser determined, furtive forms of knowledge can serve to powerfully reorient our relationships to each other, our environments, and ourselves.

Issue 4.3: Real Materials feature an artist project by Anne Low and accompanying conversation with Art Editor Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross on artistic research, process, and craft; an image folio of recent drawings by Atheana Picha and conversation between Atheana Picha, mentor Aaron Nelson-Moody, and curator Emily Dundas Oke on material practices, lineages, and relationships; an image folio of new textile works by Laura Grier; new painting folios by Nadya Isabella and Les Ramsay; a conversation between past editors Pierre Coupey, Jenny Penberthy, and Dorothy Jantzen on the legacy of Ann Rosenberg, former Editor of Visual Media; a review of Liz Magor’s recent collection of writings by Yasmine Whaley-Kalora; and new poetry by Saif Alsaegh, Alison Bosley, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Tina Do, Cristina Holman, Lee Suksi, Ruoyu Wang, and ryan fitzpatrick.

Pre-order a single copy of the issue:
https://thecapilanoreview.com/issues/fall-2024-real-materials/

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Cover Image: Anne Low, "Clay suitcase" (detail), 2023, hand-woven cotton and silk, calcium carbonate, hide glue, wood, plaster, metal, 152.4 x 88.9 x 5.08cm. Photo by LFdocumentation. Courtesy of Franz Kaka, Toronto.

07/26/2024

We're delighted to have Clint Burnham joining us tomorrow evening to offer a reading as part of the Montreal launch of Issue 4.2 IT IS WHAT IT IS. We look forward to gathering at 7pm on July 27th at Carlson Gracie Montreal.

Clint Burnham was born in Comox and lives in Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish territories. Recent books include The Goldberg Variations (New Star, 2024), The Old Man: New Stories (above/ground, 2024), White Lie (Anvil, 2021), and Pound @ Guantánamo (Talon, 2016). He teaches at Simon Fraser University and just got back from a hike.

Learn more about tomorrow's event: https://thecapilanoreview.com/bellitrist-an-evening-of-readings-with-ashton-diduck-dani-carter-and-clint-burnham/

07/24/2024

We're excited to hear from Dani Carter at our reading this week in Montreal! We look forward to seeing you at Carlson Gracie Montreal at 7pm on July 27th.

Dani Carter is a Black q***r writer, performance artist, and editor of English and Jamaican descent. They were born in Tkaronto, where they completed a BA in Creative Writing at York University, and they are a proud former member of the Jane and Finch community. They currently live in Tiohtià:ke.

Learn more: https://thecapilanoreview.com/bellitrist-an-evening-of-readings-with-ashton-diduck-dani-carter-and-clint-burnham

07/22/2024

We're looking forward to hearing a reading from Ashton Diduck at the Montreal launch of Issue 4.2: IT IS WHAT IT IS! Join us at Carlson Gracie Montreal at 7pm on July 27th for an evening of readings and community.

Ashton Diduck is a q***r writer currently residing in Tiohtià:ke. He graduated from the Honours English and Creative Writing program at Concordia University in 2023, and is currently the Communications Manager at carte blanche. You can find previously published work in carte blanche, the Capilano Review, eavesdrop magazine and elsewhere.

Learn more: https://thecapilanoreview.com/bellitrist-an-evening-of-readings-with-ashton-diduck-dani-carter-and-clint-burnham/

07/18/2024

The Capilano Review is thrilled to be partnering with the new reading series BELLITRIST for the Montreal launch of Issue 4.2, IT IS WHAT IT IS (Spring 2024). The evening will feature readings from Ashton Diduck, Dani Carter, and Clint Burnham. BELLITRIST will be held at Carlson Gracie, a Brazilian jiujitsu studio in downtown Montréal, and hosted by The Capilano Review's Literary Editor, Deanna Fong.

Halfway between the bellicose and the belletristic, BELLITRIST curates writing that reflects on “what the body can do” in terms of affect, sensation, relation, labour, and enjoyment.

The reading will take place at 7pm on July 27th at Carlson Gracie Montreal, 275 Sherbrooke Ouest. Gatorade will be served post-event.

Accessibility information: the space is wheelchair accessible, however there are three stairs needed to access single-stall washrooms. If you have accessibility concerns, please Deanna Fong ([email protected]).

BELLITRIST logo by the talented Alexandre Macfly!

Learn more: https://thecapilanoreview.com/bellitrist-an-evening-of-readings-with-ashton-diduck-dani-carter-and-clint-burnham/

06/23/2024

We are excited to share "Life is for Loving Around in a Rove" by Benjamin de Boer, SK Maston and Ami Xherro as a web feature from our latest issue, IT IS WHAT IT IS (Spring 2024).

"Life is for Loving Around in a Rove" is "an experiment in collaborative tracing and transcription." Created from materials collected in Toronto's Grange Park, the works are printed in Issue 4.2 and are now available to explore through our website.

View the works online: https://thecapilanoreview.com/life-is-for-loving-around-in-a-rove/

Purchase your own copy of Issue 4.2 IT IS WHAT IT IS: https://thecapilanoreview.com/product/issue-4-2-it-is-what-it-is-print/

Image: Artwork from "Life is for Loving Around in a Rove" by Benjamin de Boer, SK Maston, and Ami Xherro.

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To celebrate the occasion of our first annual virtual benefit, "As Good as Rocks," today, February 10, 2024, The Capilano Review is pleased to release a new series of prints by artist and TCR founder Pierre Coupey. Originally featured in our 50th anniversary issue set, OR is comprised of a series of mixed-media archival cover interventions, reflecting the unique visual history of the magazine. As Coupey writes, “With these five appropriated and altered TCR covers, I wanted to pay homage not only to The Capilano Review’s tradition of selecting beautiful and elegant covers, but also to the editors who faced the inherent problem of making this selection for each and every issue published over the last fifty years. Each editor had to make a choice: it was either this image or this one or this one or this one. Sometimes the choice comes as a coup de foudre, but not always: very often the or is agonizing. I chose these five covers to engage with, one for each decade of The Capilano Review’s remarkable existence, for their innate potential to highlight the editors’ critical decisions, the or of image selection. In the process, I have made them very slightly o(the)r.” All proceeds from the sale of the prints will go towards supporting The Capilano Review’s triannual print magazine and year-round public programs. View and purchase the prints here: https://thecapilanoreview.com/or-prints-by-pierre-coupey/

We're feeling the sunshine on our skin (finally!) and want to spread the seasonal love around, which is why we're offering a special sale on the cost of individual copies of our Spring 2023 issue. From now until May 31st, when you purchase a print copy of Issue 3.49: Bad Feelings, get 25% off the cover price and FREE shipping to your door, that's a total savings of $15! Use coupon code "badfeelings" at checkout to redeem this limited-time offer, and join us in celebrating this exceptional issue. https://thecapilanoreview.com/product/issue-3-49-bad-feelings-print/

In anticipation of the holiday season, TCR is pleased to announce a special collaboration with Colleen Browning of Browning & Company Picture Framing, a Vancouver-based framing company with 34 years of experience in conservation framing and design. For a limited-time, you can order any of our 50th anniversary Quarto Series fine art prints and have them professionally framed just in time for the holidays! This is an exclusive offer for TCR readers only—a chance to give the gift of fine art to an art and literary lover in your life at a price you won't get anywhere else. Framed prints are available for a special flat price of $275 CAD. Select your choice of our three editions to be framed for $275: - Quarto 1: "Toward the boundless (fruit of the conqueror)" by Patrick Cruz & Laiwan - Quarto 2: "Sara Hutchinson's Hand" by Moyra Davey & Lisa Robertson - Quarto 3: "I Am Constantly Astonished" by Billy-Ray Belcourt & Charlene Vickers Each Quarto is offset-printed in a limited edition of 100 on acid-free vellum paper. Framing includes a 15" x 19" white-washed solid oak frame under UV glass. Orders must be placed by Friday, December 16th at 5pm PST to be ready in time for pickup the following week at Browning & Company Picture Framing (163 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver). Unfortunately at this time, framing is only being offered for pickup orders in Vancouver. Order now on our website here: https://thecapilanoreview.com/product/framed-quarto-series-print/ Images: Framed Quarto Series prints. Photos by Sungpil Yoon.

Thank you to everyone for joining us for the launch of Issue 3.44 last month! We had so much fun spending such a wonderful evening with our contributors and people from our community. Thanks also to all of you who DM'd us or posted a picture to let us know you've been enjoying the latest issue. We love hearing from our readers! For those of you who couldn't make it to the event, we'll post recordings of the readings on our website very soon, so stay tuned 🌟 Image description: Screen caps from the Issue 3.44 virtual launch event, including Emily Dundas Oke, Ashlee Conery and Tarah Hogue, and Isabella Wang. End ID.