52.3, Spring 2025

Disrupt the Illusion

Disrupt the Illusion

Grain Volume 52.3, Spring 2025

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Poetry: Allison Armstrong, Jenny Li Chen, Sophie Crocker, Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal, Melanie Brannagan Frederiksen, Evelyn Lau, Andreas Lohstraeter, Diane Massam, Jessica Popeski, Allister White

Prose: Tove Black, Pearl Bogdan, Liz Johnston, Melissa Ren, Tim Ryan, Deborah Vail, Catriona Wright

2024 Hybrid Grain Contest Winners: Jill Aalhus, sophie anne edwards, Catherine St. Denis

Cover Image: "Running with Scissors"

Artist for this issue: Janis Woode

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52.2, Winter 2025

to have been there.

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Grain Volume 52.2, Winter 2025

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Poetry: Jenny Berkel, Belinda Betker, Vikki C., Veronika Gorlova, Allegra Kaplan, Esther Lay, Tanis MacDonald, Jessi MacEachern, Amber McMillan, Charis Morgan, Shannon Quinn, Mary Robles, Kylie Pat Smith, Shayna Stock, Michael Trussler, Angela Waldie

Prose: Cody Caetano, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Tam Eastley, Krista Eide, Dave Margoshes, Carmina Ravanera, Rory Say, Melody Sun, Margaret Watson

Cover Image: "Exodus"

Artist for this issue: Patty Maher

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52.1, Fall 2024

all is well?

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Grain Volume 52.1, Fall 2024

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Poetry: Zoe Boyer, JCCortens, Shutta Crum, Danielle Hubbard, Sara Krahn, Y S Lee, Warsha Mushtaq, kerry rawlinson, Barbara Schott, Glen Sorestad, E.S. Taillon, H Morgan Traquair, Heather Truett

Prose: Anne Baldo, K.R. Byggdin, Carmen Farrell, Matt Kingcroft, Carmelinda Scian, Alanna Marie Scott

2024 Short Grain Winners: Fiction - Zilla Jones, K.R. Byggdin, C. White; Poetry - Kevin Irie, s.j. Shalgaire, Megan Morrison

Cover Image: "Pretty Please 1 of 9"

Artist for this issue: Allison Morris

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51.4, Summer 2024

an oyster of becoming

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Grain Volume 51.4, Summer 2024

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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

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51.3, Spring 2024

more star than cell

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Grain Volume 51.3, Spring 2024

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Poetry: Tanja Bartel, Sean Howard, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Cory Lavender, Michael J. Leeb, Heather Simeney MacLeod, Josiah Nelson, Catherine Owen, Natalie Rice, Emily Skov-Nielsen, Misha Solomon, Kenton K. Yee

Prose: Morgan Dennis, Adrienne Gruber, Shannan Mann, Rebecca McKee, Stephanie Reddoch, Rebekah Skochinski, Adam Sol, David M. Wallace

2023 Hybrid Grain Winners: Serena Lukas Bhandar, kerry doyle, Graeme Dyck, Lauren Griffin, Liz Huntly, Tazi Rodrigues

Cover Image: (Detail) #271-Celestial Chill

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51.2, Winter 2024

Invocations

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Grain Volume 51.2, Winter 2024

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Poetry: Christine Barkley, Erin Conway-Smith, Robert Currie, Antony Di Nardo, Warren Heiti, Anne Hopkinson, Jake Kennedy, Holly Luhning, Annie MacKillican, Cassandra Myers, Catherine St. Denis, Mark Truscott, Erin Wilson, Angela Waldie, Derek Webster

Prose: Joe Baumann, Leone Brander, Arnolda Dufour Bowes, Preston Lang, Ben Lof, August Reynolds, Calvin Wharton

Creative Nonfiction: Linda Mannheim

Artwork: Joan Butterfield https://joanbutterfield.com/

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51.1, Fall 2023

Caper and Whorl

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Grain Volume 51.1, Fall 2023

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Poetry: Michael Goodfellow, Jolene Loveday, Taidgh Lynch, Oksana, Maksymchuk, Kelly Mary McAllister, Steve McOrmond, John Pass, John Reibetanz, Idris Scrase, Olive Scott, Léa Taranto, Tom Wayman.

Prose: Ed Falco, David Hammond, Karin, Hedetniemi, Laura Janze, Dan MacIssac, Kristine, Scarrow.

Short Grain Winners: Moni Brar, John Geddes, Camie Kim, Trent Lewin, Sadie McCarney, Mike Sluchinski.

Artwork: David Garneau https://uregina.ca/~garneaud/

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50.5, Special issue 2023

Celebration

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Grain Volume 50.5, Special issue 2023

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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

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50.4, Summer 2023

Just Stars Leaking

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Grain Volume 50.4, Summer 2023

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Poetry: Brian Bartlett, Marilyn Bowering, Salvatore Difalco, Clare Goulet, Rayanne Haines, dee Hobsbawn-Smith, Caleb Knight, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Micheline Maylor, Shane Neilson, kerry rawlinson, Jill M. Talbot.

Prose: Tim Blackett, Sary Fetkete, Susan Glickman, Katie Lynes, Wess Mongo Jolley, Jane Ozokowski, Madeline Sonik, Steven Stowell, Deborah-Ann Tunney, Lynda Williams, Shelley Wood.

Cover Image: J'ai vu l'oiseau

Artist for this issue: Maryline Lemaitre

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50.3, Spring 2023

Beyond the Aperture

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Grain Volume 50.3, Spring 2023

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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

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50.2, Winter 2023

Snowlight

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Grain Volume 50.2, Winter 2023

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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

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50.1, Fall 2022

“Infinite Potential”

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Grain Volume 50.1, Fall 2022

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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

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49.4, Summer 2022

"various names for sky"

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Grain Volume 49.4, Summer 2022

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Fiction: Morgan Dick, Ava Fathi, Cynthia Flood, Cail Judy, Jeremy Lanaway, Alan Spinney, Sandra Whitworth. Non-Fiction: Tej Rae, Claire Sicherman. Poetry: Tammy Armstrong, Michelle Barker, Elena Bentley, Ronna Bloom, Su Croll, Julie Eliopoulos, Sarah Feldman, Triny Finlay, Susan Gillis, Teya Hollier, rob mclennan, Christina McRae, Barbara Nickel, Bruce Rice, Okajide Salawu, James Scoles, Kenneth Sherman, Andrew Weaver, Genevive Wynand.

Editor: Mari-Lou Rowley
Associate Prose Editor: Kate O’Gorman
Associate Poetry Editor: Brenda Schmidt
Art Editor/Designer: Shirley Fehr

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49.3, Spring 2022

all a dream, just neural popweed

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49.2, Winter 2022

a lull, a numbness, a lumen

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49.1, Fall 2021

There is Spirit Stirring

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48.4, Summer 2021

A Tenuous Mess

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48.3, Spring 2021

More Metal than Skin

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48.2, Winter 2021

Is it save to look?

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48.1, Fall 2020

Asleep on the soft soil of the forest / the tide just kept shrugging

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Grain Volume 48.1, Fall 2020

asleep on the softsoil of the forest / the tide just kept shrugging

Grain Volume 48, No. 1, Fall 2020.

Short Grain Contest Winners:

Fiction
First Place: “Heat” by Ryanne Kap
Second Place: “Lucky Baboon” by Iryn Tushabe
Third Place: “Success” by Alexis Pooley

Honourable mentions:
“Florence” by Hilary Ball
“Whippit” by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove

Poetry
First Place: “Asch’s Line Study in the Current Anthropocene” by Paola Ferrante
Second Place: “Common Law” by Katie Jordon
Third Place: “the decapoda and the molting moon” by Cooper Skjeie

Honourable mentions
“Geothermal” by Pippa Bowley
“The Semblance of an Unfair Fight” by Jonathan Greenhause

Contributors: Laura Clarke, Julia Escaño, April Ford, Tikva Hecht, Kevin Imrie, Kevin Irie, Jun-long Lee, Mary Dean Lee, Jennifer LoveGrove, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Victoria Mbabazi, Kate McQuestion, Matt Rader, Sage Ravenwood, Christina Shah, Liedewij Vogelzang, Kathleen Wall, Ivis Whitright.

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47.4, Summer 2020

Toward a Vector of Queerness

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Toward a Vector of Queerness

Grain Volume 47, No. 4, Summer 2020.

Contributors: K.R. Byggdin, Jake Byrne, Kate Cayley, Šari Dale, Matthew Fox, Alice Gauntley, Patrick Grace, Greta Hamilton, Gina Hay, Özten Keeshabageegit, Rachel Lachmansingh, Rachel Lallouz, Holly C. Lam, Madelaine Caritas Longman, Nisa Malli, Alex Manley, Tanya Marquardt, Lindz McLeod, Lindsay Miles, Pamela Mosher, Ashley Obscura, Kevin Shaw, Shayna Stock, Andy Trussler, Jade Wallace, Joshua Wales, Joshua Whitehead, Zoe Whittall.

Cover Image: Adrian Stimson, Shaman Exterminator Playing on the Playa III, 2004 (B/W photo various size)

Editor: Nicole Haldoupis
Art Editor / Designer: Shirley Fehr
Associate Fiction and Nonfiction Editor: Lisa Bird-Wilson
Associate Poetry Editor: Alasdair Rees

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47.3, Spring 2020

Reflections in the Water

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Reflections in the Water

Grain Volume 47, No. 3, Spring 2020.

Contributors: Matias Alvarez, Kevin Bray, Angie Ellis, Hollay Ghadery, Gabriela Halas, gillian harding-russell, Evangeline Holtz-Schramek, Liz Johnston, Samantha Jones, Daniel Sarah Karasik, A.R. Kung, Lee Kvern, Ken Massicotte, Cara Nelissen, Leona Nikolić, Jasmina Odor, Triin Paja, Cale Plett, Melanie Power, Sierra Marilyn Riley, Sue Sinclair, Elaine van der Geld, Susanne von Rennenkampff, Douglas Walbourne-Gough, Isabella Wang, Hayden Ward, Carolyn Watson, Catriona Wright, Jaeyun Yoo, Yuan Changming.

Cover Image: Yonina Rollack, Underneath, 2018 (Digital, 22” x 31”)

Editor: Nicole Haldoupis
Art Editor / Designer: Shirley Fehr
Associate Fiction and Nonfiction Editor: Lisa Bird-Wilson
Associate Poetry Editor: Alasdair Rees

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47.2, Winter 2020

of auburn and blue

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Grain Volume 47, No. 2, Winter 2020.

Contributors: Sheri Benning, Michelle Poirier Brown, Grant Buday, Kai Conradi, Krishan Coupland, Molly Cross-Blanchard, James Deahl, Antony Di Nardo, Patrick Friesen, Keegan Hawthorne, Robert Hilles, Judith Krause, Jessica Lampard, Norma West Linder, Conor Mc Donnell, Bruce McRae, Jan Morrison, Heather Parry, Sharon Pollock, John Reibetanz, Rebekah Rempel, Karen Rigby, Eleonore Schönmaier, Indra Singh, J. J. Steinfeld, Tom Wayman.

Cover Image: Laura Dawe, Sanctuary, 2018 (Mixed media on paper, 12” x 12”)

Editor: Nicole Haldoupis
Art Editor / Designer: Shirley Fehr
Associate Fiction and Nonfiction Editor: Terry Jordan
Associate Poetry Editor: dee Hobsbawn-Smith

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