long con magazine is a canadian quarterly for art about art.

Based in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (halifax, nova scotia), we welcome submissions from established & emerging artists who currently live in canada.

Submissions are accepted year-round on a rolling basis. For submission calls & announcements, follow us on social media or subscribe to our newsletter.

editors

long con managing editor + publisher

Collusion Books editor + publisher

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, PrismThe PuritanVallum, & elsewhere.

long con visual editor

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).

long con poetry editor

Ellen Chang-Richardson (they) is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent who currently lives/works as a settler on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of five poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre work has appeared in Augur, The Fiddlehead, Watch Your Head, and Room, among others. They are the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII. Their debut poetry collection, Blood/Belies, is out in spring, 2024, with Buckrider Books.

long con poetry editor

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.

long con poetry editor

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).

editors emeriti

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)