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 [email protected] by January 20, 2026 (PT).

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....

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

Pre-orders close on November 7, 2025.

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, . . .

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!

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.

[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 . . .