The Malahat Review 234 opens with the 2026 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner, “The First Law of Adoptee Physics” by Hayden Park and the 2026 Open Season Awards: Andrea Bishop (fiction), “Show and Tell”; Stephanie Harrington (cnf), “Chimera”; and Cassandra Myers (poetry), “Quantum Entanglement for Honeybees and Other Yellow Collisions.”
The issue is also filled with great poetry by Lorna Crozier, Joe Gorman, Kath Healing, Leigh Kotsilidis, Steve Noyes, José Emilio Pacheco, (translated from the Mexican Spanish by George McWhirter), Ayaz Pirani, Jessica Popeski, Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza (translated from the Mexican Spanish by Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier and Dora Prieto), John Steffler, Christine Walde, and Jordan Williamson; fiction by Diana Dima, Sophie Jai, and Claire Wilmot; and creative nonfiction by Carmen G. Farrell and Russell Thornton, as well as six reviews of new works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Cover: Moon Phases by Qian Cheng (2024).
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