long con magazine is a free-to-read, modestly paying, digital, and canadian quarterly that publishes art created in direct reply to other creations that can be considered “art” (whether texts, objects, artifacts, exhibitions, or performances).
long con’s foundational philosophy is that all artworks exist in troubled & beautiful conversation with all other artworks, and our purpose is to publish works that bring this long conversation to the surface—all its inspiration & counterpoint, harmony & refutation, introspection & explosion.
Andy Verboom (he) is from rural Mi’kma’ki and lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), where he is a program manager for the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia. He is solo author of four poetry chapbooks and co-author of two. His poetry has won Frog Hollow’s Chapbook Contest & Descant’s Winston Collins Prize, been shortlisted for CV2’s Young Buck Prize & Arc’s Poem of the Year, and appeared in CAROUSEL, Prism, The Puritan, Vallum, & elsewhere.
Angie Quick (she | b. 1989) is an artist based in London, Ontario. Quick’s paintings explore tenderness and intimacy both historically and contemporaneously. Her recent exhibitions include the solo shows the moonlight made me do it at the McIntosh Gallery (2022), a life of crime at the Michael Gibson Gallery (2023), and make me less evil at Museum London (2023).
Ellen Chang-Richardson (they) is an award-winning poet, multigenre writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. They are the author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn), shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the author of five poetry chapbooks, and the co-author of two with their creative poetry collective VII. Their writing has appeared in publications across Turtle Island including The Ex-Puritan, Existere, Grain, Plenitude, Watch Your Head, and Vallum Contemporary. They are a co-founder of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series and also an editorial collective member of Room.
Hollay Ghadery (she) is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children’s book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets, and a co-chair of the League’s BIPOC committee as well as the the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
Liam Burke (he) lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. He has been the Assistant Director of the Sawdust Reading Series and co-host of Literary Landscapes on CKCU and performs in the band Moratorium. He is pursuing a master’s degree in philosophy at Carleton University. He is co-author of Orbital Cultivation with Manahil Bandukwala (Collusion, 2022) and machine dreams with Natalie Hanna (Collusion, 2021) and author of dry right up (In/Words, 2013).
Logan Lawrence (he) is a father, health system scientist, and (with some discomfort) poet. He was a winner of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s Poetry in Motion contest (2023) and was shortlisted for the Rita Joe Poetry Prize (2024). His poems can be found in The Dalhousie Review, Open Heart Forgery, and long con. He is from rural Alberta and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
ViNa Nguyễn (they) writes about queer diasporic resistance while performing in an alt-rock band (Hunger Flower) on Treaty 7 territory. They began writing after med school and ever since has continued to disappoint their parents. Just kidding. Anyway, the moral of the story is you can weather 108 rejections while getting Pushcart-nominated, longlisted for the 2024 Austin Clarke Prize and the 2021 Jacob Zilber Prize, shortlisted for Room’s 2022 short forms contest, and winning Prairie Fire’s 2021 fiction award and Briarpatch’s 2020 creative nonfiction contest.
Emily Thomas Mani (long con fiction & script editor)
Kailee Wakeman (long con co-founder, visual editor, + fiction & script editor)
Kat Jones (long con fiction & script editor)
Manahil Bandukwala (long con poetry editor)
Matthew Stobie Jackman (long con fiction & script editor + line & copy editor)
