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long con magazine is a quarterly digital magazine that publishes art about art. Based in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia), we welcome submissions from established & emerging artists living in Canada.
Submissions are accepted year-round on a rolling basis. All revenue and donations support long con magazine and its companion press, Collusion Books.
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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 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.
Emily Thomas Mani (she) is originally from Brampton, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto with her family. Her novella, The Church of Wrestling, is available from Split/Lip Press. Other stories can be found in Minola Review, long con magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Hollay Ghadery (she) is a writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in various literary journals, and she is currently the Reviews Editor of Minola Review. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in spring of 2021. Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, is due to be released in spring of 2023 with Radiant Press.
Kat Jones (she) is a writer, artist, theatre artist and academic born and raised in British Columbia. She is currently based at Concordia University, Montreal, completing her graduate work in Film Studies. Prior to her graduate work, she produced and designed multiple theatre productions for the King’s Theatrical Society and Atlantic Fringe. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in long con, Salt&Citrus, Neartown Zine.
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).
Matthew Stobie Jackman (he) is a Haligonian living in Toronto, Ontario. He worked as a sailor before returning to shore to explore the literary landscape of North America. He holds a BA in English literature from the University of Toronto.
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