The Capilano Review

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There are just five days left to submit your work to The Capilano Review's annual open call! **Important update: Due to ...
09/26/2025

There are just five days left to submit your work to The Capilano Review's annual open call!

**Important update: Due to a problem with Submittable, we ask that you please email your work to [email protected]. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience, and appreciate your patience!

Submission Guidelines:

– Please submit a maximum of 6 pages in a Word doc file. If you have a specific vision in terms of layout, please include a PDF as a layout guide.
– Include a one-paragraph description of your project and a 50-word biography with your submission. Writers from historically marginalized groups may choose to self-identify in their biography and/or project description, although this is always optional.
– For pitches: Please describe your proposed interview/review/critical text in a single paragraph within a Word doc, with links to any contextual images/information as necessary. Please also include 1-2 writing samples of relevant work.

Submission to our open reading period is free. Accepted submissions of poetry and prose will be compensated at a rate of $60 CAD per page upon publication. Flat rate fees for commissioned interviews and critical texts range from $200–$500 CAD depending on length and scope and will be discussed upon acceptance of a pitch.

Submit your work by emailing [email protected] before midnight on September 30th. We look forward to reading your work!

Learn more: https://thecapilanoreview.com/open-call-for-submissions-september-15-30-2025/

The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to present a workshop by writer-in-residence Erín Moure. Details:Date:...
09/07/2025

The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to present a workshop by writer-in-residence Erín Moure.

Details:
Date: October 4, 2025
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front
Admission: $15 / Free for Indigenous participants
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/embodying-translation-poetrys-learnings-tickets-1603235152499?aff=oddtdtcreator

On the workshop, Moure says:

Translation is a performance that is incorporated, that stems from a textual flow through a body already socially, culturally and ideologically constituted (and in motion, for these do not stay fixed), and that already has corruptions in its own structure that will mar what passes through it. We can best learn about how language (linguaxe) crosses language (lingua) borders by working with poetry, which is language at its most polyvalent and demanding.

In this workshop, we’ll translate a small poem in pairs, then discuss some of the effects, and how we might learn from them more about language’s workings: key skills for any translator/writer/communicator in tomorrow’s (today’s!) world. We’ll work into English, primarily, and the workshop welcomes participants with any level of multilingual experience, including unilingual. All you need is language curiosity.

We are excited to announce our upcoming Fall 2025 issue! Signalling networks of inspiration and influence, mentorship an...
09/05/2025

We are excited to announce our upcoming Fall 2025 issue! Signalling networks of inspiration and influence, mentorship and friendship, coterie and community ties, Issue 4.5 Dedications collects writing and art that explores the valences of the word dedication as it relates to both relations and creative practice.

Issue 4.5 Dedications (Fall 2025) features Gerry Shikatani’s “Journal from Roy’s,” a poem dedicated to his friend Roy Kiyooka, interspersed with newly commissioned images by Henry Tsang; a conversation between Gerry Shikatani and Literary Editor Deanna Fong on poetry and performance; new drawings dedicated to the “non-optimized” by Vida Beyer; a conversation between Deanna Fong and Gail Scott on non-linear writing practices and the event of language; an extended art folio on land and lineage guest-curated by Nasrin Himada and featuring work by Rhayne Vermette, Malena Szlam, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme; and new writing by Francesca Bennett, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, A Jamali Rad, Douglas Kerr, Shiv Kotecha, Suvendrini Lena, Gail Scott, and Hannah Azar Strauss.

📬 Pre-order a single copy of the issue, or subscribe to receive Issue 4.5 along with our forthcoming Spring 2026 issue. Until September 15, you can subscribe to The Capilano Review and Brick for a bundle deal! Visit Brick's website to purchase your subscription.

Pre-order your copy: https://thecapilanoreview.com/product/issue-4-5-dedications-print/
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Cover image: Malena Szlam, detail of still from "Archipelago of Earthen Bones," 2024, 16mm. Three-channel video and sound installation, colour, 20 min/19 min/18 min. Sound by Lawrence English. Edition 1/5.

Call for submissions!📝 The Capilano Review will be accepting submissions from September 15–30 for our annual open call....
09/01/2025

Call for submissions!📝 The Capilano Review will be accepting submissions from September 15–30 for our annual open call.

We welcome submissions of boundary-pushing, innovative writing across a variety of genres and forms, including but not limited to: poetry, experimental fiction, personal/poetic essay, creative nonfiction, and hybrid forms.

Writers are also welcome to pitch ideas for long-form critical essays (1500-2500 words) on contemporary art or artists, ideas for our online see to see section—reviews of recent or forthcoming literary/art books (500 words)—and ideas for feature interviews with authors and artists that may be of interest to our readership.

Details:
- Submission is free.
- Accepted submissions of poetry and prose will be compensated at a rate of $60 CAD per page upon publication.
- Flat rate fees for commissioned interviews and critical texts range from $200–$500 CAD depending on length and scope and will be discussed upon acceptance of a pitch.
- Accepted work will be published in the 2026 publication year.

Learn more and submit your work: https://thecapilanoreview.submittable.com/submit

A magazine for every season! From August 25 to September 5, you can subscribe to receive both The Capilano Review and Br...
08/25/2025

A magazine for every season! From August 25 to September 5, you can subscribe to receive both The Capilano Review and Brick for a bundle deal. Your subscription will include The Capilano Review's fall and spring issues and Brick's winter and summer issues. Receive the best in art and writing delivered right to your mailbox each season!

Current subscribers to The Capilano Review or Brick will have their active subscription extended when they purchase the bundle. Learn more and subscribe below.

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Leading up to Erín Moure's residency, The Capilano Review and Western Front are excited to host a three-part reading gro...
08/21/2025

Leading up to Erín Moure's residency, The Capilano Review and Western Front are excited to host a three-part reading group dedicated to Moure’s most recent book of poems, Theophylline: A(n) (a)po(r)etic Migration (Anansi, 2023).

Dates: September 11, 18, & 25, 2025
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Western Front
Fee: $20 (includes a copy of Theophylline: A(n) (a)po(r)etic Migration)

Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a q***r and female heritage. In it, Moure crosses a border as translator, to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké. Moure asks: What is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of… something else?

About the Writer

Erín Moure is a poet, essayist, and translator of poetry based in Montréal, Canada who works across Galician, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. A recipient of two Governor General’s Literary Awards—poetry and translation—as well as the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize, she holds two honorary doctorates and has been International Translator in Residence at Queen’s College (Oxford) and Woodberry Creative Fellow (Harvard).

Accessibility

If you require the workshop space to be accessible for a wheelchair, scooter, or other mobility aid; or require a reservation for an access requirement such as ASL interpretation, please contact us at [email protected] or +1 (604) 876 9343. We will make our best endeavours to help you. Details about accessibility at Western Front can be found on their website.

For more information and to register, visit https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/theophylline-an-aporetic-migration-reading-group-tickets-1603180438849?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Capilano Review is delighted to welcome our 2025 Writer-in-Residence, Erín Moure!Erín Moure is a poet, essayist, and...
08/20/2025

The Capilano Review is delighted to welcome our 2025 Writer-in-Residence, Erín Moure!

Erín Moure is a poet, essayist, and translator of poetry based in Montréal, Canada who works across Galician, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. A recipient of two Governor General’s Literary Awards—poetry and translation—as well as the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize, she holds two honorary doctorates and has been International Translator in Residence at Queen’s College (Oxford) and Woodberry Creative Fellow (Harvard).

Presented in partnership with Western Front, Moure's residency will consist of a week-long stay in Vancouver in early October, including a reading and conversation with Alessandra Capperdoni on October 2nd and a workshop, Embodying Translation: Poetry’s Lea(r)nings, on October 4th. In advance of Moure's residency, The Capilano Review and Western Front will be hosting a reading group dedicated to Moure’s most recent book of poems, Theophylline: A(n) (a)po(r)etic Migration (Anansi, 2023).

We look forward to welcoming you to these community events. Further information and registration links can be found below:

Theophylline: A(n) (a)po(r)etic Migration Reading Group: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/theophylline-an-aporetic-migration-reading-group-tickets-1603180438849?aff=oddtdtcreator

Reading by Erín Moure: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reading-by-erin-moure-tickets-1603216787569?aff=oddtdtcreator

Embodying Translation: Poetry’s Lea(r)nings: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/embodying-translation-poetrys-learnings-tickets-1603235152499?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Capilano Review is seeking a Treasurer to oversee the organization's finances and offer guidance to staff and the bo...
07/15/2025

The Capilano Review is seeking a Treasurer to oversee the organization's finances and offer guidance to staff and the board. Details regarding the position and the application process can be found on The Capilano Review's website: https://thecapilanoreview.com/call-for-board-treasurer/

Submissions will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

We're excited to share our third and final web feature from Issue 4.4 Speculative Feminisms. "From 'total'", a collectio...
07/04/2025

We're excited to share our third and final web feature from Issue 4.4 Speculative Feminisms. "From 'total'", a collection of five poems by Aisha Sasha John from her newly published collection, is now available on our website.

Read "From 'total'": https://thecapilanoreview.com/aisha-sasha-john-from-total/

Order your copy of Speculative Feminisms: https://thecapilanoreview.com/issues/spring-2025-speculative-feminisms/

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