The Capilano Review

The Capilano Review The Capilano Review is a tri-annual literary and arts publication located in Vancouver, BC, traditio

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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We are pleased to invite submissions to our Spring 2025 Writing Contest guest-judged by Wayde Compton (.compton)."Langua...
06/03/2025

We are pleased to invite submissions to our Spring 2025 Writing Contest guest-judged by Wayde Compton (.compton).

"Language, the vehicle of power, is a contaminated site."
– Roy Miki

Authoritarian regimes always mask and mythologize their aggression with familiar and regressive genres: reminiscences of a fabricated golden age; exaggerated narratives of an ostensibly oppressed majority; the framing of targeted groups as literally evil. Demagogues make use of cliche, “plain speech,” and “normalcy” as much as they use the materiel of militarized force. When resisting authoritarianism, it can be tempting to answer simplification with simplification. But more compellingly, in his 1998 collection of essays Broken Entries, Roy Miki writes: “Truth does not reveal itself in the voice of clarity and plenitude” and that we “have to be vigilant not simply to mime the given narrative, genre, and filmic forms through which dominant values are aestheticized." As Miki puts it, the answer is in seeking “a viable method for resisting assimilation, for exploring variations in form that undermine aesthetic norms, for challenging homogenizing political systems, and for articulating subjectivities that emerge from beleaguered communities — even at the risk of incomprehensibility, unreadability, indifference, or outright rejection.”

This is a call for work that celebrates the complex, the cross-genre, the formally mixed, the abject, the unstable, the code-switched (or the code-kept) resistant text. If your subject position, form, or style eschews easy categorization or reading, you are encouraged to submit your work.

The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in an upcoming print issue of The Capilano Review.

Submit by June 30th: https://thecapilanoreview.submittable.com/submit

The Capilano Review is excited to be participating in the 2025 Vancouver Art Book Fair! Come say hello, pick up a copy o...
05/29/2025

The Capilano Review is excited to be participating in the 2025 Vancouver Art Book Fair! Come say hello, pick up a copy of our latest issue, and snag some unique TCR merch. We can't wait to see you there!

Dates:
Friday, July 4th - 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Saturday, July 5th - 11:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, July 6th - 11:00am to 5:00pm

Location:
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre

Entry:
Free, no registration required

The Capilano Review honours and celebrates the life and work of Judith Copithorne (August 5, 1939 - May 15, 2025). Judit...
05/24/2025

The Capilano Review honours and celebrates the life and work of Judith Copithorne (August 5, 1939 - May 15, 2025). Judith's work has been a gift to The Capilano Review for 38 years, since her work first appeared in our 1987 Issue 1.45 and we "pressed the forever key" on her legacy. Her contributions can be read online: https://thecapilanoreview.com/author/judithcopithorne/

The Capilano Review remembers with gratitude the life and work of Alice Notley (November 8, 1945 -  May 20, 2025). We ha...
05/23/2025

The Capilano Review remembers with gratitude the life and work of Alice Notley (November 8, 1945 - May 20, 2025). We had the privilege of speaking with Alice last year for our Spring 2024 issue, IT IS WHAT IT IS, and are sharing the interview again in honour of her memory.

The beginning of the conversation is excerpted below, and the full interview can be read online: https://thecapilanoreview.com/the-most-concrete-part-of-us-is-invisible-a-conversation-with-alice-notley/

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This interview took place over Zoom on January 2, 2024, after Alice gave a stunning reading of her poem “Malorum Sanatio” — a long poem featured in her new work The Speak Angel Series (Fonograf, 2023) — that left us both breathless. While this conversation grounds itself in that impressive new volume, this interview follows many of he threads that weave themselves through Notley’s life’s work: the vibratory energy of subjects, both embodied and in spirit form, and the ways that language both harnesses and yet fails to encapsulate that energy; the slippery and completely subjective experience (and thus reality) of time as we age, grow, lose, grieve, and learn; and a relentless pursuit of ethical relationships with all people and things, regardless of their stature, agency, or what we think we know about them. I exit this interview a touch healed, a touch hopeful, brimfully curious, and ever more open to the world’s pastings-on.
— Deanna Fong

I am healing you with paste it on the collage danger
Anger’d backwards frightened till he as if menial
Tried to slip away crowded as if he could be forgotten
No one will be and you must exist dead or alive
I stole healing slab of crystal kept in a grey pouch don’t
Come in here a voice said but I have brought back every dimen-
Sion that I am mentioning till I find the one in the pun you are
No one gets out of here unhealed
— Alice Notley, “Malorum Sanatio”

Deanna Fong:
"I’m thinking of John Donne’s Holy Sonnet “Batter My Heart Three-personed God.” This kind of tough-love healing. “No one gets out of here unhealed.”"

Alice Notley:
"People think you’re only supposed to heal good people, but actually you’re supposed to heal everyone. There are no sides in the healing. That’s what that means when I say things like that. No one’s excluded. It’s a very hard place for people to go because everybody’s on a side. But things have to heal on both sides for anything to happen, really."

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We're excited to share "Manaajitoon Aki Apane: An Ogimaa Mikana Walking Tour" by Susan Blight, now available on our webs...
05/16/2025

We're excited to share "Manaajitoon Aki Apane: An Ogimaa Mikana Walking Tour" by Susan Blight, now available on our website. This is the final piece in the collection of works guest edited by Susan Blight for the Indigenous Places and Names series. We have been honoured to work with Susan over the past year while she has served as The Capilano Review's Associate Editor.

"Manaajitoon Aki Apane: An Ogimaa Mikana Walking Tour" is available online: https://thecapilanoreview.com/manaajitoon-aki-apane-an-ogimaa-mikana-walking-tour/

We're excited to share a new see to see— review by Mélika S. Hashemi, now available on our website.Mélika S. Hashemi off...
05/09/2025

We're excited to share a new see to see— review by Mélika S. Hashemi, now available on our website.

Mélika S. Hashemi offers an intimately attentive reading of Mozhgan Mahjoob’s "Under the Sky, Beneath the Moon" (The GOAT PoL and Publication Studio, 2024).

"Mahjoob artfully pens fleeting encounters with the supernatural and the extra-human before they disappear and recede. Like something that calls us through a fog or cloud, moving and non-visual, Mahjoob is able to write these encounters into existence, stilling spine-chilling images into words which reawaken in her readers’ minds."
– Mélika S. Hashemi

Follow the link in our bio to keep reading.

We can't wait for you to receive Issue 4.4 Speculative Feminisms! While the issue makes its way to your mailbox, we are ...
05/06/2025

We can't wait for you to receive Issue 4.4 Speculative Feminisms! While the issue makes its way to your mailbox, we are keen to offer a glimpse of the work inside.

"We were our own audience": A Conversation with Carole Itter, by Deanna Fong, is now available to read on our website. We are delighted to publish this conversation online, and look forward to sharing the full issue with you.

Read the full conversation: https://thecapilanoreview.com/we-were-our-own-audience-a-conversation-with-carole-itter/

Purchase a copy of Speculative Feminisms: https://thecapilanoreview.com/product/issue-4-4-real-materials-print/

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