
According to Kathleen Winter’s guidelines for composing a short story

According to Sarah Selecky’s guidelines for composing a short story

According to Michael Lista’s guidelines for composing a poem

According to Alexi Zentner’s guidelines for composing a short story

According to Damian Rogers’ guidelines for composing a poem

A suite of poems from The Walrus’s Summer Reading issue

“The last of our kind came into the city tonight”

“You really want to be a frickin’ hoser, eh?”

“Bill Bennett has a criminal record”

“After a week of the snow, the man figures he has a story”

“Something I’ve been meaning to tell you”

“Then he kissed me, and the kiss was like spinach to Popeye”

“I was curious to know which God this man was evoking”

“His dog barked briefly to announce a car”

“What do you think Conrad Black is doing right now?”

New fiction by Lisa Moore, Linden MacIntyre, Rawi Hage, Heather O’Neill, Zsuzsi Gartner, Stephen Marche, Michael Winter, Miguel Syjuco, and Madeleine Thien; with poems by David McGimpsey