Spadina Literary Review

This is an archive containing editions #3 thru #40 of the Spadina Literary Review, spanning December 2012 to March 2021. All are welcome to browse the fine stories, verse, comics and art that appear herein. New editions will appear at spadinaliteraryreview.com, which is likewise where queries and submissions can be directed.

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issue #40 march 2021

Had enough of the pandemonium? As we get on with living again, let's absorb in calm and joy some interesting stories and verse plus more Mythical Moments from Jim Nelson. Bravo, everyone.


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issue #39 december 2020

The forest helps build your canoe. A weekend at the cottage changes your perspective. Having a kid in the climate crisis: discuss. Plus various additional excellent items of prose and verse.


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issue #38 september 2020

Tales of farmland, relationships, Halloween, et al., plus a spectrum of verse from street scene to mountain top, plus the usual hilarious comics and a memoir about urban change and Honest Ed's: Come in and get lost!


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issue #37 june 2020

Herein may you peruse Alex Pugsley's take on off-camera life at a certain prestigious film festival plus a variety of fiction & verse plus an overdose of comics to infect you with a pandemic of laughs. Summer at last!


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issue #36 april 2020

A stupid hotel, a café rendezvous, a small town newsroom, and the Fall of Man. Plus cartoons.
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issue #35 february 2020

Verse and story-telling in mid-winter. Trips to Venice and Paris. The Voice of God comes thru.
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issue #34 december 2019

You'll enjoy some sanguine seasonal notes plus sports tales and a visit to Ireland's hard border days.
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issue #33 october 2019

Lots of animals this time plus the usual human heartbreaks and a mythology comic (new!) by James Nelson.
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issue #32 august 2019

In the desert of summer lit you've landed on a sweet oasis of story-telling and poetry — drink it in!
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issue #31 june 2019

Riding the Regionale on the Riviera, gazing at Guernica, bathing with Bathsheba — and that's just the start.
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issue #30 april 2019

Worldwide fiction & verse including Stray Cat in Venice, Underground Art, Being a Girl, Shooting Stars & more.
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issue #29 february 2019

A story about having a life-coach, another about reconnecting with an ex-lover. And so much more.
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issue #28 december 2018

Warm your footsies by the fire as we bring home fabulous fiction and verse from around the world
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issue #27 october 2018

A bounty of verse and fiction including about the first-ever novel composed by Artificial Intelligence. Scary!
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issue #26 august 2018

This summer let's go smoking in Amsterdam, commuting in Tokyo, playing ice hockey in Toronto. Be cool!
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issue #25 june 2018

Thrills and chills with twists, a dash of fan-fic, assorted verse, topped off with a shaggy-dog comic. Enjoy!
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issue #24 april 2018

A teen joins a famous regiment · Memoir of an ex-Occupier · Final part of Legends of Ben, and more
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issue #23 february 2018

Fiction and verse plus a cascade of comics including Ben, The Holy Ankh, and The Lethal Network Virus

prior issues (before february 2018)
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