The Capilano Review is a biannual journal of contemporary writing and visual art based in Vancouver, Canada. Dedicated to experimentation across boundaries, forms, and contexts—with particular emphasis on promoting dialogue between the literary and visual arts—each issue of the Review features innovative poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, criticism, art sections, and artists’ projects by both emerging and established writers and artists working at the leading edge of their fields.

The work collected in each issue is critically and socially engaged, playful and language-oriented, and rigorously interdisciplinary. Originally founded in 1972 at Capilano College in North Vancouver, The Capilano Review has operated as an independent, not-for-profit publication since 2015. Its award-winning literary contributors include Jordan Abel, D.M. Bradford, Dionne Brand, Liz Howard, Canisia Lubrin, Daphne Marlatt, Erín Moure, Cecily Nicholson, Michael Ondaatje, Fred Wah, and Ian Williams, among many others. 

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Guest edited by Mercedes Eng, Carcerality and Care asks us to imagine and activate a world without prisons: to think beyond Western carceral logics and realities, and to unsettle the colonial-settler mentality of punitive justice. Constellated here is art and writing by currently and formerly incarcerated people, and people working in solidarity with prisoners, aiding us in attaining an abolitionist future.

Featuring poetry from tiptoeing through the concrete tulips by Abu-Falestine, Cassandra Rae, D.C.R., Drew, Kevin, Lance, Muhe Cui, Serafim, Trae, and W.W.; artwork by Chris, Drew, Paul, Serafim, Tangent, Tristen Bright, and Will, collected by Helen Brown and Kelsey Timler through A.R.T. & Justice; conversations on art, community, writing, and organizing with Caspar Blanchard and Harsha Walia; a series of coloured sketches by Manuel Axel-Strain paying homage to friends and community members, accompanied by a conversation with Cecily Nicholson; visual art by Angelee Porter, dana qaddah, and Magín Manolete; and new writing by Hari Alluri, Rachelle Cruz, Claire Farley, Chi-Leung Lee, Cecily Nicholson, Nnadi Samuel, jaye simpson, Rita Wong, and Rafael Zen.