an oyster of becoming

Grain Volume 51.4, Summer 2024

CONTRIBUTORS:

Poetry: Nicholas Bradley, Samuel Burt, Emma Fuchs, Lennie Hay, Siew David Hii, Kevin Irie, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Judith Krause, Alison McBain, Christine Potter, Anthony Purdy, Aaron Rabinowitz, Owen Schalk, Tosh Sherkat, Olivia Van Guinn, Hayden Ward, Christine Wu

Prose: Karen Lea Armstrong, Eva Crocker, Derin Emre, Karen E. Moore, Tara B. Schleifer, Traci Skuce, Theressa Slind, Carolyn Watson, Yance Wyatt

Cover Image: "Metropolis"

Artist for this issue: Jenny Lewis

Celebration

Grain Volume 50.5, Special issue 2023

Contributors:

Poetry: Jocelyn Anderson, Matthias H. Apse, David Barrick, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Robert Coleman, Rosa Crepax, Klara du Plessis, Benjamin C.Dugdale, Katherine Alexandra Harvey, Terrence Heath, Gerald Hill, EJ Kniefel, Y.S. Lee, Mark Laliberte & Jade Wallace (MA|DE), Tanis MacDonald, Nathan Mader, David Martin, Kim McCullough, Chrissie Minnery, Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi, Jerome Paul, Molly Peacock, Shannon Quinn, Kit Roffey, Ashish Kumar Sing, Russel Thornton, Michael Trussler, Lucas Warren, Claudia Yang.

Prose: Mark Abley, Gary Barwin, Lee Burton, Danila Botha, CC Klamann, Danica Lorer, Kirsten Madsen, Jessica Marsh, Erin MacNair, Zachary Picker, Carson Pytell, Shannon Quinn, Jennifer Robinson, Christine Smart.

Cover Image: "Breezy Curtain"

Artist for this issue:  Claire Desjardins

Beyond the Aperture

Grain Volume 50.3, Spring 2023

CONTRIBUTORS:

Poetry: Carla Barkman, Bertrand Bickersteth, Nicholas Bradley, Cody Caetano, Cora Clark, Cole Forrest, Michael Goodfellow, Michael J. Leeb, Miranda Pearson, Ren, Tazi Rodrigues, Sneha Madhavan-Reese. 

Prose: Tom Brennan, Sarah Christina Brown, George Choundas, Gillian Haines, Justin Loran, Vinh Nguyen, Brecht de Poortere, Tessa Swackhammer, Kelly S. Thompson.

Kloppenburg Hybrid Grain Winners: Moni Brar, Ki’en Debicki, Ariel Gordon, Marc Lynch, Kaitlyn Purcell.

Cover Image: Narcissus A, 3, from a suite of thirteen visual poems.

Artist for this issue: Paul Dutton

Snowlight

Grain Volume 50.2, Winter 2023

CONTRIBUTORS:
Poetry: Susan Alexander, Wendy Bone, Nicole Boyce, Alison Braid, Darrell Epp, Bill Howell, Jessica Greenbaum, gillian harding-russell, Alexander Hollenberg, Meghan Kemp-Gee, John Kinsella, Tonya Lailey, Michael Trussler, D.A. Lockhart, Randy Lundy, Tanis Macdonald, Robert McGill, Colin Morton, Susan Robertson, Judith Taylor.

Prose: Kelly Bryne, Lorna Carley, Chelsea Coupal, Angie Ellis, Karen Lesli, Alice McMurtry, Dawn Muenchrath, Ben Robinson, Alexander Slusar, Deb Stark, Imola Zsitva.

Cover Image: Dancing with Fish (2019). Graphite, coloured pencil, ink, 76 x 58.5 cm.

Artist for this issue: Cee Pootoogook

“Infinite Potential”

Grain Volume 50.1, Fall 2022

CONTRIBUTORS:
Poetry: David Barrick, Frances Boyle, Rocco de Giacomo, Leanne Dunic, Yasmina Jaksic, Danielle Hubbard, Kurt Kirchmeier, Michael J. Leeb, Sandra Maxson, Kaye Miller, Brian Palmu, Steve Passey, Carolyn Smart, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Glen Sorestad, Russel Thorson, Tom Wayman. Fiction: Hannah Eiserman, Jamie Forsythe, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Eric Wang. Non-Fiction: Eve Krakow.

Short Grain Winners, Fiction: P.J. Worrell, Antony Purdy, Trent Lewin. Poetry: Lindsay Cavanaugh, Tamsyn Farr, Jody Baltessen.

Cover Image: Poplar Point, (2015). New and reused textiles and marking implements, 23” x 35.” Artist for issue: Jaynie Himsl

a lull, a numbness, a lumen

Grain Volume 49.2, Winter 2022

There is Spirit Stirring

Grain Volume 49.1, Fall 2021

A Tenuous Mess

Grain Volume 48.4, Summer 2021

More Metal than Skin

Grain Volume 48.3, Spring 2021

Is it save to look?

Grain Volume 48.2, Winter 2021

Toward a Vector of Queerness

Grain Volume 47.4, Summer 2020