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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
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Qwerty 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
Poetry 713
Qwerty Magazine presents, in cooperation with Gridlock Lit and Demand the Stars, the first Poetry 713 event for gender-expansive poets! We invite...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Read 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
February 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Qwerty 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 )
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Did you know? Qwerty Magazine and Canadian literary powerhouse The Fiddlehead are both based out of Fredericton, the capital city of New Brunswick, but we've never done a collaboration before! With Th...
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February 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Qwerty Magazine will continue to support our trans and nonbinary contributors and readers. Despite everything, we care about you
January 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
JORDAN 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.
January 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
DAMEN 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).
January 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
SUSAN 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.
January 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
JAMES 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.
January 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Qwerty Magazine will continue to support our trans and nonbinary contributors and readers. Despite everything, we care about you
January 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Natalia 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.
January 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Haley 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.
January 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
@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.
January 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
ALEX 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).
January 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Last 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

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January 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Wow, 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 cooking
January 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Qwerty 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. www.qwertyunb.com/product-page...
Egg Poets, All Things to Keep You Here (Digital Edition) | Qwerty
Qwerty presents the Homerow Chapbook Series, featuring work from emerging poets, which launches with this chapbook. Egg Poets are: Jenna Lyn Albert, void vida clark-nason, Spencer Folkins, Jamie Kitts...
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October 26, 2023 at 4:52 AM
Best 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. www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...
Best Canadian Poetry 2024 - Biblioasis
Selected by editor Bardia Sinaee, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2022. Featuring: David Barrick • Nina Berkhout • Nicholas Bradl...
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October 14, 2023 at 5:43 AM
Check out our latest issue! New work from some amazing writers, with cover art by Molly Steels

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Qwerty Issue 47: The Home/Town Issue | Qwerty
New work from Deniz Ezgi Avci Vile, Joelle Barron, Susan Barry-Schulz, Aaron Beaumont, Sally Boyington, Richard Brait, Matt Dennison, Jason Graff, John Oliver Hodges, Carella Keil, Tiger Levi, Vivian ...
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October 13, 2023 at 1:43 AM