Canadian Literature

Symposium attendants will have the chance to participate in writing workshops to develop their short papers into submissions for an upcoming Canadian Literature special issue on contemporary publishing.

Learn more at the link in bio!

The symposium will take place May 11-13, 2026, at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta (dates TBC). Abstracts and bios are to be submitted to jrak@ualberta.ca by January 20, 2026 (PT).

Call for participants!
Dr. Julie Rak is now accepting 200-word abstracts from those interested in participating in an upcoming symposium on Studying Contemporary Canadian Publishing.

A reminder that pre-orders for #Issue261 close at midnight on November 7, 2025.

Get your copy early at bit.ly/CL261Pre-Order!

This issue even includes an article co-authored by the late Y-Dang Troeung — great pre-reading for forthcoming issue 261, which honours her legacy.

You can find issue 240 here: doi.org/10.14288/cl....

Happy Halloween! 🎃 If you’re looking for some spooky reading this weekend, check out issue 240 on Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Get your copy at bit.ly/CL261Pre-Order.

Pre-orders close on November 7, 2025.

Pre-order your copy of CanLit #Issue261 today!

Guest edited by Chris Patterson and Vinh Nguyen, this issue explores the life and legacy of Y-Dang Troeung's scholarship and is full of incredible articles, images, forums, and poetry.

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2026 (PT)

✨Read the full call for papers and submission guidelines here: bit.ly/CFP269

In this special issue, we ask how writers, critics, and artists are addressing/ countering authoritarianism in their artistic practice or how they’ve done so in the past."

the rejection of the value of diversity and inclusion, and anti-democratic movements gaining traction. Concomitantly, however, resistance is also globally prevalent. One forum for resistance is art. . . .

"Far-right and authoritarian political ideologies are now pervasive in many parts of the world. The last few years have seen a rise in extreme forms of nationalism, an increase in propaganda, the censorship of individual words, lists of banned books, growing militarism, . . .

🖊✨Call for Papers! We are now accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "Authoritarianism, Anti-fascism, and Literary Resistance," guest-edited by Anna Branach-Kallas and Laura Moss.

This event in the series “Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea,” will take up themes of memory, nature, and time across Christine’s and Clara’s work. Don’t miss out!

On September 24th, join Green College’s newest writer in residence, Clara Kumagai, as she hosts novelist Christine Lai in her inaugural talk!

Happy Friday! Issue 256 is now open access and has two great articles on Canadian labour to accompany this Labour Day long weekend. You can find Billy Johnson and Valerie Uher’s articles on OJS at bit.ly/CL256OJS.

Fiona's poetry was also featured in Canadian Literature's 2022 Verse Forward reading, published in issue 248—Be sure to check out Fiona’s poem, “Covenant,” at canlit.ca/article/cove....

You can find Kyeren and Fiona's conversation on poetry's power to honour history, heal collective wounds, and engage the public in fresh and unexpected ways at www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com.

Happy Friday, everyone! We're delighted to have sponsored the most recent episode of The Poet Laureate Podcast. In this episode, Kyeren Regehr, the 7th Poet Laureate of Victoria, is joined by Fiona Tinwei Lam, who served as Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2022-2024.

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[This issue is photographed in front of the incredible Symbols for Education, a mosaic mural by Lionel and Patricia Thomas. This installation can be found outside Brock Commons South, on UBC's Vancouver campus.]

Order your copy of issue 260 at the link in our bio. Happy reading!

This issue features articles by Tania Aguila-Way, Sara Minogue, Emily Howe, Deborah Schamuhn Kirk, and April McInnes; poetry by Jim Johnstone, Richard Brait, Beverly Harris, Robin Durnford, donalee Moulton, Bill Howell, Sally Quon, and Cassandra Myers; and seventeen book reviews!

being experienced within the US in a myriad of ways, including deportations without just cause. Within this new epoch of history, what has Canadian literature come to mean and what, moreover, does it do? How have the field and the journal been transformed over the years?"

the turbulence unleashed by the pandemic never disappeared. Instead, grief, fear, anxiety, and anger continued with global conflicts that include, but are not limited to, the devastation being inflicted on the Gaza Strip, the invasion of Ukraine, and the terrors . . .

We are so pleased to announce that issue 260 of Canadian Literature is now live! In her last Canadian Literature editorial, outgoing Editor-in-Chief Christine Kim writes: "As I prepare to wrap up my term as editor and reflect on the past five years, I’m conscious that . . .

‼️ There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to submit papers for our Suburb Nation special issue ‼️ Submit by August 15th, 2025 (PT) for your chance to be published. Visit bit.ly/CFP266 or see link in our bio for more info!

And stay tuned for next week’s digital launch of issue 260 . . . there may be an exciting article on embodiment and relationality in sulphurtongue coming your way 👀

If you’re looking for some weekend reading, check out Neil Surkan’s recent review of Rebecca Salazar’s debut poetry collection, sulphurtongue, at canlit.ca/article/welc....

Happy Friday, everyone! To help us get ready for the long weekend, please enjoy these marmots munching on some fries ☀️😎

Keep an eye out for Professor Kim’s reflections on her time at Canadian Literature, which will be featured in the editorial for the forthcoming issue 260.