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The Capilano Review is launching our annual fall fundraiser! As we head into this fundraising season, we are brimming wi...
11/14/2025

The Capilano Review is launching our annual fall fundraiser! As we head into this fundraising season, we are brimming with gratitude for the opportunity to do this work we care about so deeply. It is a joy to feel shared appreciation and enthusiasm for the incredible artists and writers we are honoured to publish.

The Capilano Review prides itself on being more than a publication: through our workshops, events, and internships, we delight in providing opportunities for education, community building, and conversation. We are committed to fostering connections across disciplines, generations, and geographic locations, supporting and strengthening our beloved arts and literary community.

Throughout our work, The Capilano Review remains dedicated to supporting emerging and established writers and artists, and to providing fair wages to our contributors, designers, and staff. As production costs continue to rise, we rely on the support of arts and culture enthusiasts to continue this work.

This year, we are seeking to raise $10,000 by December 20th to support our work in 2026. If you are in a place to do so, we would be enormously grateful if you could offer a donation towards supporting local arts and literature. Every little bit helps.

Thank you for your generosity and ongoing support!

Donate today: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/capilano-review-contemporary-arts-society/campaign/support-the-capilano-review

We are pleased to invite submissions to our Fall 2025 Writing Contest, “Connective | Uncontainable,” guest-judged by Har...
11/05/2025

We are pleased to invite submissions to our Fall 2025 Writing Contest, “Connective | Uncontainable,” guest-judged by Hari Alluri. Submissions are open November 11 – December 12, 2025.

"These are times—again, ongoing—in which so many of us are forced into existences and lives that harm us. And borders, their inherent falsity is why they are such overpoliced things: the binary of belonging must be constantly reinforced. And here a river overflows its banks constantly: every evaporated drop exceeds the category of the body it was named within. Alive means filled with so many desires to become uncontainable: modes of connective relationships that reach across, above, beneath.

Maybe we are in need of initiations, intimacies, and intonations that exceed their own categories. Maybe also remembrances of pasts, presents, and futures that rebel, invoking transformative relations to earth, each other, and spirit.

This call especially invites work that connects against expectations, that refuses the regulation of your identities / subject positions / experiences / writing itself, that connects beneath the surface of social, cultural, interpersonal and beyond-human relationships, that ascends towards possibilities beyond this world. If you’re infuriated by this call for work, maybe your work is calling you to send it in."

Learn more: https://thecapilanoreview.com/connective-uncontainable-fall-2025-writing-contest/

Submit your work: https://thecapilanoreview.submittable.com/submit

You're invited to the issue launch for Issue 4.5 (Fall 2025) Dedications! Join us for readings by Francesca Bennett, Shi...
11/04/2025

You're invited to the issue launch for Issue 4.5 (Fall 2025) Dedications!

Join us for readings by Francesca Bennett, Shiv Kotecha, and Hannah Azar Strauss, alongside a screening of “The Body Electric: Gerry & Roy on the Powell Street Festival” featuring footage from Jesse Nishihata’s unfinished 1991 film featuring Gerry Shikatani and Roy Kiyooka, edited by Phil Hoffman and Emiko Morita in 2025. The screening will be introduced by Emiko Morita and Henry Tsang, whose stills from the film are published in Issue 4.5 Dedications alongside Gerry Shikatani’s Journal from Roy’s.

We look forward to gathering with you to celebrate the launch of Issue 4.5 Dedications!

Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Centre A, # 205 – 268 Keefer St. Vancouver BC
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dedications-fall-2025-issue-launch-registration-1936605060869?aff=oddtdtcreator
Learn more: https://thecapilanoreview.com/issue-4-5-fall-2025-dedications-issue-launch/

Issue cover: 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.

We are pleased to announce the winner and shortlist of our 2025 Spring Writing Contest as selected by guest judge Wayde ...
10/06/2025

We are pleased to announce the winner and shortlist of our 2025 Spring Writing Contest as selected by guest judge Wayde Compton.

The winning work is "Breathless" by V.M. Ellis.

V.M. Ellis’s (she/her) poetry and fiction explore lived realities of gender-based violence, precarious work, and poverty. Her vocation as a feminist anti-poverty community organizer supports ending all trafficking, destigmatising s*x work, and support for the health, safety, and well-being of all s*x workers. V.M. Ellis writes on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation territories in Vancouver.

TCR would like to extend additional congratulations to the shortlisted writers:

Claire Farley for “4 X 4”

Pari Mokradi for “Zone1_bylaw/.body/.soul”

Congratulations to our winner and runner-ups, and thank you to all who submitted!

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Image: V.M. Ellis. Photo by Kate Blake.

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

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