No. 307 (Spring 2026)

The cover of Issue 307 featuring the painting "Lilas, 2023" by Raymond Martin. On a yellow background, a woman in a white dress holds a lilac branch twice her size  in one hand.

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Introductions
6       Sue Sinclair: Of Lilacs and Bakeapples

Creative Nonfiction
40     Sonja Boon: hear, here: fragments towards an imagined autobiography of my great-great-grandmother, indentured labourer, travelling from India to Suriname in 1873 
49     Christine Stewart-Nuñez: Climate Change 
76     Chelsey Clammer: Best Buds 
107   Christie Ellen: Clava Cairns 
108   Summer Schenk Andrus & Nicole Breit: Diptych: Missing/Missed

Fiction
19     S.E. Chapman: Had Love 
37     Abhimanyu Acharya: The Jump 
59     Margaret Sweatman: Material Witness 
85     Michael Lithgow: Burning Ashes 
100   Linda Rui Feng: The Whale

Poetry
8       Melanie Power: Ode to the Bakeapple
11     Christina Wells: Two Poems
13     Liz Howard: Three Poems
17     Jaime Sugiyama: Two Poems
30     Sarah Burgoyne: Two Poems
32     Billeh Nickerson: Colonoscopy
35     Y.S. Lee: Swimming
52     Thekla Altmann: Things I wanted to say to his defense lawyer but didn’t
54     Rebecca Fredrickson: After Death: An Epilogue
56     Chris Yurkoski: Two Poems
58     Jessica Hannon: News of the World
67     Irena Datcu-Romano: Door
68     Raoul Fernandes: Two Poems
70     Owen Torrey: Coastline
72     Ellie Sawatzky: Three Poems
94     Jordan Mounteer: Two Poems
96     Mark Truscott: Two Poems
98     Eva Haas: Postcards

Reviews
110   Charles Carroll: Sounds From a Black Square 
         An Orange, A Syllable, Gillian Sze 
112   Ian Clay Sewall: A Masterclass on The Long Sentence 
         Planet Earth, Nicholas Ruddock
114   Brandon Fick: The Road to Nowhere: The Troubled Masculinity of The Passenger Seat 
         The Passenger Seat, Vijay Khurana 
116   Chris Benjamin: A Rich Mourning Journey Guided by a Benign Ghost 
         In Search of Puffins: Stories of Loss, Light and Flight, Marjorie Simmins 
118   D.A. Lockhart: Though Related, Our Echoes Are Not the Same 
         We Survived the Night, Julian Brave Noisecat

Contributors
121   Notes on Contributors

Cover
Raymond Martin 
Lilas, 2023 
Size: 14” × 10” 
oil on canvas 
Art Provided by Gallery 78

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