Canadian Literature

🖊✨Call for Papers! We are now accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "From One Solitude to Another: Dialogues around Québécois Literature, Indigenous Literatures, and CanLit."

[First photo features the House Post of ‘qiyǝplenǝxʷ’ (‘Capilano’) by Musqueam artist Brent Sparrow Jr, located outside UBC's Allard Hall and overlooking the Salish Sea.]

Happy Friday, everyone! Our gorgeous copies of issue 263 have arrived in-office. Get yours at the link in bio and enjoy some sunny outdoor reading ☀️

Order your copy of issue 263 at the link in our bio!

This general issue features two must-read fora on Thomas King after Disclosure and Indigenous Literary Biography; articles by Jamie Paris, Michaela Wipond, Sharon D. Engbrecht, Melissa Jacques, and Margery Fee and Sherrill Grace; exciting new Canadian poetry; and book reviews.

Issue 263 is now live! 🎉 In this issue’s editorial, Editor-in-Chief Mary Chapman writes: "Award-winning author Thomas King’s November 24, 2025 revelation that he had no Indigenous ancestry shocked Canada’s literary community.

(6/6) revisits Marian Engel's novel No Clouds of Glory to trace what happens when a woman refuses the story that romance tells her about her own body and future. Check out these pieces and more at the link in bio.

(5/6) too often sentimentalized women's emotional labour while rendering invisible the racial, economic, and colonial conditions that shape whose mothering gets celebrated and whose gets erased. And In upcoming issue #263, Sharon D. Engbrecht's "The Gloriously Ugly"

(1/6) This Mother's Day, we're turning to three very different pieces from our pages that think about motherhood and womanhood with honesty, complexity, and power.

6/6 and how might we recognize the material and political limits of her project? Submission deadline: Oct. 1, 2026 (PT). ✨Read the full CFP and submission guidelines at the link in bio. 6/6

5/6 What can reading Webb tell us about the dominant trends and pervasive omissions that characterize CanLit studies? How might we grasp the conditions of aesthetic possibility that shaped Webb's literary and artistic career, 5/6