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WCLJ is a global online literary journal. https://teapawt.net/t.co/doB2Wjw7lf

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Call for manuscripts. Summer 2023 wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/ca…
Call for manuscripts. Summer 2023

Call for manuscripts. Summer 2023

With library shelves being emptied of books and that challenge certain ideologies and doctrines, WordCity Literary Journal is seeking works on the theme of censorship, the right to read and write, …

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WordCity Litarary Journal. Spring 2023 wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/wo…
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Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. Spring 2023 wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/ta…
Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. Spring 2023

Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. Spring 2023

Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter The Fig Tree. by Ivy Ngeow The Bell Wars. by D-L Nelson The Last First Friday. by William Baker The Chair. by Rick Gi…

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WCLJ. Spring 2023. Letter from the Editor wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/wc…

WCLJ. Spring 2023. Letter from the Editor

Photo by Laurie Griffiths In February 2012, just more than a year after the publication of my first collection of short stories, I broke my back. That is the easiest way to say it. Except that the …

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The Fig Tree. fiction by Ivy Ngeow wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/th…
The Fig Tree. fiction by Ivy Ngeow

The Fig Tree. fiction by Ivy Ngeow

The Fig Tree I step onto the balcony. The first time today, although it’s getting late. I want to step outside at least once a day. Otherwise, I feel like a trapped man. It was your idea for u…

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The Bell War. fiction by D-L Nelson wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/th…

The Bell War. fiction by D-L Nelson

THE BELL WAR TWO SCREECHING CATS slice the late morning silence. They circle each other, backs hunched. Chickens scatter to safer pecking grounds. A priest approaches. Sunlight on his black robe ba…

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The Last First Friday. fiction by William Baker wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/th…
The Last First Friday. fiction by William Baker

The Last First Friday. fiction by William Baker

The Last First Friday Brandt Colson watches his frenetic daughter as she flits around the room in her usual style. She is talking about ten different things at once, fussing over details and genera…

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The Chair. fiction by Rick Gillis wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/th…
The Chair. fiction by Rick Gillis

The Chair. fiction by Rick Gillis

The Chair Farley Creighton had been working far too hard. Tax accounting could be a real bitch in April. While most people welcome spring with open arms and a certain sense of renewal, not so with …

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Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/tw…

Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein

Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking I haven’t attended a lecture or author reading since COVID. The pandemic was reason enough not to go anywhere crowded, an…

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Risking Life to Earn Crust. non-fiction by Diary Marif wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/ri…
Risking Life to Earn Crust. non-fiction by Diary Marif

Risking Life to Earn Crust. non-fiction by Diary Marif

Risking Life to Earn Crust On the last day of my final exams in the third grade, I excitedly anticipated joining my father, a courier and a Kulbar (porter).  This is someone who takes items across …

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Literary Spotlight with Sue Burge: Poet Roy McFarlane Leads Us through Troubled Waters wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/li…
Literary Spotlight with Sue Burge: Poet Roy McFarlane Leads Us through Troubled Waters

Literary Spotlight with Sue Burge: Poet Roy McFarlane Leads Us through Troubled Waters

Sue Burge: I’m very excited to be interviewing Roy McFarlane for this issue of WordCity Literary Journal.  Roy is primarily a poet, although he turns his considerable talents to other genres too.  …

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Kirstie Millar’s The Strange Egg. a review by Sue Burge wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/ki…
Kirstie Millar’s The Strange Egg. a review by Sue Burge

Kirstie Millar’s The Strange Egg. a review by Sue Burge

The Strange Egg – Kirstie MillarIllustrations by Hannah Mumby(The Emma Press 2023)Paperback ISBN: 9781915628022 £10 “’Doctor, I had a terrible dream. In my dream I saw my own body, and I saw …

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Eva Tihanyi’s Circle Tour. a review by Anne Sorbie wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/ev…
Eva Tihanyi’s Circle Tour. a review by Anne Sorbie

Eva Tihanyi’s Circle Tour. a review by Anne Sorbie

Circle Tour is a like a reflection in lake water; something so beautiful that you wish you could hold on to it, mercurial as it may be. On these pages Eva Tihanyi offers a bounteous continuation of…

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Everyone Talking. a review of books by Gordon Phinn wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/ev…

Everyone Talking. a review of books by Gordon Phinn

Everyone Talking Books Referenced:If Not for You & Other Stories, Niles Reddick (Big Table Publishing 2023)Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice (ECW 2018)Who by Fire, Matti Friedman (Pengu…

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Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry. a review by Diana Manole wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/cl…
Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry. a review by Diana Manole

Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry. a review by Diana Manole

Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry Claudia Serea, Writing on the Walls at Night (Unsolicited Press, 2022) History is what we take in, Mom says, the small bites of thepresent.…

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3 poems by Bobby Parrott wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/3-…
3 poems by Bobby Parrott

3 poems by Bobby Parrott

Children Look at Me as if behind their eyes were mounted an ancient algorithm tickling testily for me to write my own microtonal subroutine of extinction. As if human life were not the larval stage…

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4 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh. WCLJ poet-in-residence wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/4-…

4 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh. WCLJ poet-in-residence

Nowruz 2023 For “Women, Life, Freedom” Hyacinths need the full Sun that comes late winter or early spring. What flowers will make this year attractive to Nowruz? Enshroud with the tatte…

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a poem by Jonathan Wittmaier wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/a-…

2 poems by Jonathan Wittmaier

A dumpling does what a dumpling does It floats, it bobs, it tumbles to the floor. On the inside—hollow, nothing but air And some soft squishy dough Fill it with onion, chives, some minced pork; all…

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4 poems by Benard Berinyuy wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/4-…

3 poems by Benard Berinyuy

Green lands of Nso Nature commemorates the advent of the dry season with extreme beauty in the green lands of Nso. As we wandered down the hills from Netnab, nature with extreme beauty humbled us w…

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3 poems by Anna Ferriero wordcitylit.ca/2023/05/03/3-…
3 poems by Anna Ferriero

3 poems by Anna Ferriero

SEA PETALS Spring breath between sunsets by the heart a new verse blossoms between the waves of my gaze. Scent of whiteness I collect at the Horizon and dew of love from the ink by the sea plays be…

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