Contents — The Ampersand Review

Three Short Interviews with Independent Presses featuring Arsenal Pulp Press, carousel Magazine, and collusion books

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

From Wasauksing to the Moon and Back A Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice

 

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation. He has written three fiction titles

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

Grief and Hamburgers: Stuart Ross in conversation with Heather Birrell

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

Nothing Will Save Your Life but This Might Buy You Time By Hollay Ghadery

 

Mellie’s nails are perfect ovals, what I’d imagine Grace Kelly’s must have been like. Even though the sky

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

Trash Haphazard By Elee Kraljii Gardiner

 

I throw paintings on the gallery stairs for any taker. Toss them like pelts, the made things in ragged action. They quiver as they recognize me

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

Interviewing Charles Simic with a Broken Recorder By Emily Schultz

 

The words, mangled and digital, hide beneath a hiss. This is why you shouldn’t meet heroes , I realize. Not because

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

Tattoo Talk with the Acupuncturist By Neil Surkan

 

I had my first covered up years back , she says, flicking two needles through the saddle of my wrist (whoosh go the nerves’ eager

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

In Other Words, Hold My Hand By Natasha Ramoutar

 

Shinji: But where is my reality? Rei: It is at the end of your dream. — The End of Evangelion (1997) The me in me / has always lo

Tali VoronJuly 18, 2023

Horror, Television, Pseudonyms, and Novels: will the real Naben Ruthnum please stand up! A Conversation with Naben Ruthnum

 

Naben Ruthnum is the author of the novel A Hero of Our Ti

Tali VoronJune 8, 2023

Decisions By Ann Yu-Kyung Choi

 

On the day of Cindy’s funeral, I arrive early to secure a parking spot, but there is only one other car in the lot. My anxiety ebbs and flows. A wind fro

Tali VoronApril 5, 2023

Ingest the Second House By Victoria Mbabazi

 

oh brother it’s just as you promised the walls are gingerbread gates lifesavers the gummy kind if I wreck my teeth it’ll feel sweet before

Tali VoronApril 5, 2023

Deliverance from the Tenth House by Victoria Mbabazi

 

dear god I was looking for a solution but I’ve learned a house that exists on bones only haunts I know you did not expect a celeb

Tali VoronApril 5, 2023

Hearing from You By A. F. Moritz

 

O my belovèd monster, I can’t say that when I first saw you I was stricken and filled with fear, or astonishment, or horror and disgust, or awe at

Tali VoronApril 5, 2023

End of Cronos By A. F. Moritz

 

My progeny? I ate them. They tried to murder me. And then I would have lain here, and you too—just lain here “till the end of time” as you like to say

Tali VoronApril 5, 2023

Two Short Interviews with Independent Presses FEATURING PHUONG TRUONG OF SECOND STORY BOOKS AND HAZEL MILLAR OF BOOK*HUG PRESS

Tali VoronApril 5, 2023

Making Can’t Lit: WHAT A PODCAST ABOUT CANADIAN LITERATURE HAS TO DO WITH BRITNEY SPEARS, HEMORRHOIDS, AND “WEIRD LITTLE JERKS” A Conversation with Dina Del Bucchia and Jen Sookfong Lee

Tali VoronApril 5, 2023

Wait a Sec (After Claudia Rankine) by Ayomide Bayowa You’re asked to wait for a few minutes to be called into the office earmarked to you at the immigration centre. You scramble on documentation updates; no time to delay. The office

Guest UserApril 5, 2023

Austen by Quinn Mason Before I met you, there was Austen. I never brought him up before because I’m one of those people who likes to compartmentalize; it’s why I keep the nutritional yeast and other health food in the pantry and hide th

Guest UserApril 5, 2023

Divination by Tolu Oloruntoba I was a misattribution at my physician’s desk: a false oath. Patients thought me an oracle in those rooms. I had fled from a Cronus that would puppet me. I would flee again. I was too warm behind the ma

Guest UserApril 5, 2023

Closer Than Your Jugular by Khashayar Mohammadi I began as a novice to a city long ago mastered by the writer’s eventual plunge into blindness the instinct to pub-crawl came from a different breed and the black tome of the night pains

Guest UserApril 5, 2023