Issue No. 10
SUMMER 2026
In the tenth issue of The Ampersand Review, we are proud to present a variety of short stories, poems, and works of creative nonfiction that showcase innovative writing in the Canadian literary landscape. This issue features an exclusive interview with Hollay Ghadery, poetry by Anne-Marie Turza, Ayomide Bayowa, and Rachelle-Anne Lawka, fiction by Aaron Kreuter, and more!
Contents
From the Editor
Paul Vermeersch
On the Subject of Grief
Poetry
Rachelle-Anne Lawka
Not Every Monster Devours
Borrowed Animatronic Meat Suit
RICHARD-YVES SITOSKI
Mountain Lions
The Year Without September
CRISTIAN RAMIREZ RODRIGUEZ
La Treizième Disciple En Ontario
Rubidium 87
JUMOke verissimo
Archival Entry 1.1
August c. bourré
Fan Expo Toronto, 2024
adam wilson
Megafauna
Gone Tomorrow
Cassandra myers
Iulia Is The First Person I Tell About What He Did To Me And Her First Instinct Is
Pleasure Cruising
Anne-marie turza
Top-Down Shooter Game
Fiction
K. R. byggdin
Grief Like A Fragile Egg
Aaron KREUTER
Colby’s Paradox
jill m. talbot
Supportive Housing
Non-Fiction
murgatroyd monaghan
Island Girl
sophie anne edwards
And Then It Only Fluttered
Feature
hollay ghadery
A Conversation
Interviews
Three Short Interviews With Literary Translators:
Jessica Moore
Madeleine Stratford
Reviews
marcia walker
The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston
paige leblanc
Syncopation: A Novel in Verse by Whitney French
Kevin MacDonald
What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric Essays on Neurodivergence & Neurofatherhood by Shane Neilson
macie yott
The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson
Selena mercuri
Wonderland Road by Carrianne Leung