Issue No. 6

Summer 2024

In the sixth issue of The Ampersand Review, we are proud to present a variety of short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction that showcases innovative writers in the Canadian literary landscape. This issue features an exclusive interview with Canisia Lubrin, poetry by Adam Wilson and Meghan Kemp-Gee, fiction by Annick MacAskill, and creative non-fiction by Mieke De Vries.


Contents

 

Poetry

Adam wilson

Do You Want Vaporwave or Do You Want the Truth?

Catherine owen

2400 Court, Kingsway Street, Vancouver, B.C.

Matthew gwathmey

To:

The Impossible Game

Meghan Kemp-Gee

Lions Gate Hospital is across the street, Jan. 2022

Lions Gate Hospital is across the street, Feb. 2022

Whitney French

personal apocalypse

Fiction

annick macaskill

Peach & Slate

Michelle Berry

Moving Furniture

Non-Fiction

mieke de vries

Bodymagic

Kelsey Gilchrist

Driver’s Test

Shane Neilson

On Stigma

Feature

Canisia lubrin

A Conversation

Senka Stankovic, Sophie Jin, and Lisa Whittington-Hill

Three Short Interviews with Independent Magazines

Reviews

Bertrand Bickersteth

Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin

Jillian Clasky

Swans by Michelle Brown

Margaryta golovchenko

Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante

Jacob alvarado

Cold: A Novel by Drew Hayden Taylor

Jenna James

How You Were Born: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Kate Cayley

Back Cover

Mark truscott