Brick: A Literary Journal, Summer 2025

by Laurie D. Graham (Publisher), Dionne Brand (Editor), David Chariandy (Editor)

Melissa Febos’s dry season
Darran Anderson repels ghosts
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Colm Tóibín
Sadiqa de Meijer maps an elliptical city
Darcy Ballantyne deciphers Austin Clarke’s handwriting
Anne de Marcken puts grief on the windowsill
Lida Nosrati’s food fractals
Ben Ratliff runs the song
Greg Hollingshead records his dreams
Sheung-King’s reasons for not writing
Julio Cortázar in letters
Poetry by Balam Rodrigo, Farah Ghafoor, Rodrigo Rojas, Song-Hi Ong, and Ana Rodriguez Machado
Fiction by Kathryn Scanlan
Illustrations by Donna Seto

145 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2025

About the author

Laurie D. Graham comes from Treaty 6 territory (Sherwood Park, Alberta) and currently lives in Nogojiwanong, in the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg (Peterborough, Ontario), where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine. Her first book, Rove, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, and her second book, Settler Education, was nominated for the Trillium Award for Poetry. A third book is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart in 2022.