Issue No. 7

Fall 2024

In the seventh 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 Cassidy McFadzean, poetry by Leah Bobet and Amber Dawn, fiction by Damian Tarnopolsky, and Kim Fahner's winning essay of The Ampersand Review Essay Contest 2024. 

Contents

From the Editor

Paul Vermeersch

Yours in print

Poetry

Amber Dawn

Hostile Architecture

What Happened to You?

David Barrick

Shin Godzilla (2016)

The Infernal Antechamber

John Barton

In Eggs and Love

Migrant Triptych

Y.S. Lee

God, spoon, fork

Swimming

Justin Timbol

INTERNET_SESSION.005

Leah Bobet

My mother asks why I do everything the hard way

Jonathan Bessette

If wilderness is an ouroboros, then your voice speaks eternities. Either we had arisen from planting, or out of many different soils

If we don't make it...

Adam Sol

Inherit

Departure

Rami Schandall

Ant Strategy

Fiction

Damian Tarnopolsky

The Return

Lydia Kwa

Close Call

Robert Priest

First Photon

Non-Fiction

Kim Fahner

What You Carry

Susan Glickman

The Bees

Feature

Cassidy McFadzean

A conversation

Interviews

Three Short Interviews With Independent Booksellers:

Karlene Nicolajsen of Shelf Life Books

Lisa Doucet of Woozles

Saul Freedman-Lawson of Another Story Bookshop.

Reviews

Manahil Bandukwala

Good Want by Domenica Martinello

Rachelle-Anne Lawka

Midway by Kayla Czaga

Marcia Walker

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit by Nadine Sander-Green

ADRIANA SCIOLI

Last Woman: Stories by Carleigh Baker

James Mcdonald

Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity by Gary Barwin