Issue No. 3

Winter 2023

In its third issue, The Ampersand Review is proud to present a wide variety of poems, short stories, interviews, and reviews of contemporary Canadian literature. This issue includes poetry from poets laureate A.F. Moritz and George Murray, creative nonfiction from Linh S. Nguyen and Ann Yu-Kyung Choi, an exclusive interview with Sheridan writer-in-residence Naben Ruthnum, and much more.


Contents

 

Poetry

A.F. Moritz

End of Cronos
Hearing from You
Science
History

Victoria mbabazi

Ingest the Second House
Deliverance from the Tenth House

isabella wang

移民1
the patient is a body
this body is

george murray

Morning, Sam…
Fortune

t.liem

MOST DID NOT ASK
WE WERE THE GRATEFUL ONES

terrence abrahams

kitchen still life #1
apartment poem

Fiction

Jessica Westhead

Gary How Does a Contact Form Work Do I Just Type in Here
and Then Press Send and That’s It?

Ann Yu-Kyung Choi

Decisions

Linh S. Nguyen

Swan Lake

Saad omar khan

The Paper Birch

Features

Naben Ruthnum

Horror, Television, Pseudonyms, and Novels: Will the real Naben Ruthnum please stand up!

House of Anansi press, baseline press, and gap riot press

Three Short Interviews with Independent Presses

Reviews

jacob alvarado

Nightlight by David Barrick

emily breitkopf

Toronto, I Love You by Didier Leclair

paul vermeersch

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand

tali voron

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

Marcus Medford

This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer by Lori Fox