Qwerty publishes new poetry, fiction, and art, and is staffed by creative writing students based in the Poets' Corner of Canada QWERTY CRYSTAL: THE BEST OF QWERTY MAGAZINE PART I Now Available www.qwertymagazine.cahttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lptpea4fus2wQwerty Magazine presents, in cooperation with Gridlock Lit and Demand the Stars, Poetry 713! This June, we welcome trans and gender-expansive poets to read poetry with us both online and in-person. For more information, including how you can participate, visit www.qwertymagazine.ca/poetry-713 https://www.qwertymagazine.ca/poetry-71323 May 2025 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptpea4fus2whttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3ln547ch6vs2uQwerty 49: The NO Issue, is out now! https://www.qwertymagazine.ca/product/qwerty-49-the-no-issue19 Apr 2025 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln547ch6vs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lj7g5sl7ls2pRead House of Leaves? Again? In 9 Days? Challenge accepted, Eldritch Cat. With the power of March Break and caffeine on my side I bet I can clear the extra Whalestoe Letters from the standalone version too [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Feb 2025 03:01 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj7g5sl7ls2phttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lher4akcqc2jQwerty 50: Cornerstone submissions are officially open! This issue is open exclusively to writers and artists based in our hometown of Fredericton, NB, or who work for Fredericton-based publications (eg @fiddlehd.bsky.social & @gooselane.bsky.social ) Details at qwertymagazine.submittable.com/submit https://qwertymagazine.submittable.com/submit04 Feb 2025 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lher4akcqc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lgbqmi45s22oQwerty Magazine will continue to support our trans and nonbinary contributors and readers. Despite everything, we care about you21 Jan 2025 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbqmi45s22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lgqb2ees3c2jJORDAN ALEJANDRO RIVERA (he/him) is a 24-year-old queer Xicano writer. Jordan is passionate about mutual aid and wants to see a free Palestine in his lifetime. His work is featured in Writers Resist, HAD, and more. Read more at jordanarivera.wordpress.com or @jordinowrites.bsky.social.27 Jan 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqb2ees3c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lgom3epe7c2aDAMEN O'BRIEN is a multi-award-winning Australian poet. His prizes include The Moth Poetry Prize and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Damen's poems can be found in Aesthetica Magazine, Arc Poetry Journal and other journals. Damen's latest book is Walking the Boundary (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024).26 Jan 2025 23:42 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgom3epe7c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lglq6nqtfk22SUSAN WISMER (she/they) is a queer poet who is grateful to live on Treaty 18 territory at the southern shore of Manidoo-gitchigami (Georgian Bay) in Ontario, Canada with two human partners and a very large dog. Hand Shadows, a chapbook, was published in December 2024 by Wintergreen Press.25 Jan 2025 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lglq6nqtfk22https://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lgbqygml5k2oJAMES DUNNIGAN is a writer, scholar and editor from Montreal and author of five poetry chapbooks. His creative and critical work appears—or is scheduled to appear—in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Event Magazine, CV2, Maisonneuve Magazine, Hamilton Arts and Letters and The Miramichi Reader.21 Jan 2025 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbqygml5k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lgbqmi45s22oQwerty Magazine will continue to support our trans and nonbinary contributors and readers. Despite everything, we care about you21 Jan 2025 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbqmi45s22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lfyg74rnek2dNatalia Prusinska (she/her) is a queer poet. Her work has been featured in Passages North, Cream City Review, petrichor, and elsewhere. She lives with her partner in Los Angeles.18 Jan 2025 03:58 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfyg74rnek2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lfvepg7kds2gHaley Magrill is a Canadian writer. Her work has previously appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Anti-Languorous Project, The Cabinet of Heed, Dissections Magazine, Canadian Stories, and the Queen’s Quarterly. In 2020, her short story "Flyer" was shortlisted for the Staunch Short Story Prize.16 Jan 2025 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfvepg7kds2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lfsrksi3gk22@shanaross.bsky.social is a recent transplant to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty Six Territory. Qui transtulit sustinet. Her work has recently appeared in Great Weather for MEDIA, FreeFall, Yolk, Ninth Letter, and more. She prefers walking in the woods to social media, and budgets her time accordingly.15 Jan 2025 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfsrksi3gk22https://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lfqsiagev225ALEX CARRIGAN (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic. He is the author of "Now Let’s Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul’s Drag Race Twitter Poetry" (Querencia, 2023) and "May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry" (Alien Buddha, 2022).15 Jan 2025 03:17 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfqsiagev225https://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lfjay7p2cc2cLast year we opened an itch page where you can find some of our archived products, including two free issues of Qwerty from our old website, and all of our out-of-print Homerow chapbooks qwertymagazine.itch.io https://qwertymagazine.itch.io/12 Jan 2025 03:15 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfjay7p2cc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3lfj6lcu6v32oWow, well, guess we're gonna try this again With Meta's decision to open the floodgates of hate speech on their platforms, Qwerty Magazine will recommit to migrating to Bluesky We'll be posting updates and author bios on Bluesky exclusively, can't wait to show you what's been cooking12 Jan 2025 02:32 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfj6lcu6v32ohttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3kcmxf2xqzh2eQwerty Magazine's premiere HOMEROW Chapbook is now available in a digital edition. Don't miss Egg Poets' "All Things to Keep You Here," now at a discounted price, with poems from Jenna Lyn Albert, void vida clark-nason, Spencer Folkins, Jamie Kitts, and Emma Rhodes. https://www.qwertyunb.com/product-page/egg-poets-all-things-to-keep-you-here-digital-edition26 Oct 2023 04:52 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcmxf2xqzh2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3kbounz65qm2lBest Canadian Poetry 2024 comes out next month featuring, among many other incredible poets in our circle, a poem *we* published last year! Congratulations to Joel Robert Ferguson, we're so thrilled and happy for you. https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthcoming/best-canadian-poetry-2024/14 Oct 2023 05:43 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbounz65qm2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/qwertymagazine.bsky.social/post/3kblwrd3x5o2hCheck out our latest issue! New work from some amazing writers, with cover art by Molly Steels https://www.qwertyunb.com/product-page/qwerty-issue-47-the-home-town-issue13 Oct 2023 01:43 +0000at://did:plc:k2iapbnyuz2j2qagzekhdnuo/app.bsky.feed.post/3kblwrd3x5o2h