I’m A Registered Nurse, Not a Whore
In her charming debut collection of eight short stories, Toronto author Anne Perdue explores unfamiliar territory against the mundane backdrop […]
Issue 51
The Evolution of Inanimate Objects
The Evolution of Inanimate Objects tells the curious case of Charles Darwin’s youngest son Thomas and his eventual involuntary commitment […]
Post-Punk: The Revival of Daniel Jones
With two upcoming reissues of Daniel Jones’ work, Liz Worth looks back on the influence and memory of Toronto’s lost […]
Verulam
This zine is a collection of four poems that are really stories (or stories that are really poems). As a […]
Striking Distance
This collection of four stories is a startlingly accurate snapshot of being young and creative in the city, as verified […]
Road Trips
Toronto author Rebecca Rosenblum writes her characters too big for her stories. A few pages into her chapbook Road Trips, […]
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
Issue 26 of LCRW is filled with a variety of amazing short stories. But this litzine isn’t only made up […]
I Have a Song For You
A lot of love went into this zine, from the hand-printed, hand-painted cover to the carefully crafted stories inside. There’s […]
The Fainting Couch
Upon reading this zine, I learned about fainting couches, which have a raised back at one end and were used […]
Calendar Girl: a true story
I enjoyed the way the creator approached this zine — like a mini-mystery. Author Penelope Harris immediately draws in the […]
The Book Bindery
We spend the majority of our waking hours at our place of work: some eight hours, five days a week […]
Unspent Love
The basis of this zine is a series of simple illustrations of a non-descript person with a bag of Wonderbread […]