Highlights from 2025
Erín Moure and Alessandra Capperdoni in conversation at A Reading with Erín Moure, Writer-in-Residence, October 2025 at Western Front. Photo by Rachel Topham Photography. Courtesy of Western Front. 
Erín Moure at A Reading with Erín Moure, Writer-in-Residence, October 2025 at Western Front. Photo by Rachel Topham Photography. Courtesy of Western Front. 
Emily Fedoruk and Kiel Torres hosting A Reading with Erín Moure, Writer-in-Residence, October 2025 at Western Front. Photo by Rachel Topham Photography. Courtesy of Western Front. 
Cover of Issue 4.5 Speculative Feminisms (Spring 2025): Maria Hupfield, A’ngelee Clause wearing My Body Dances to the Sound of a Rainbow Blossom (Rainbow Jingle Cape), 2024, tin jingles, industrial felt, velvet. Photo by Tira Howard Photography. Image courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown, Toronto. 
Eve Tagny, images from personal archive, 2020-2022, as featured in Issue 4.4 Speculative Feminisms. Photos by Eve Tagny and Laurence Debuc. 
Cover of Issue 4.4 Dedications (Fall 2024):Malena Szlam, detail of still from “Archipelago of Earthen Bones,” 2024, 16mm. Three-channel video and sound installation, colour, 20 min/19 min/18 min. Sound by Lawrence English. Edition 1/5. 
Henry Tsang, “Stills from Skeena: Follow the River,” 2025, as featured in Issue 4.5 Dedications. Film stills from an unfinished documentary produced by Jesse Nishihata in collaboration with Gerry Shikatani, 1991. Courtesy of the Nishihata Family and Philip Hoffman. 
Issue 4.5 Dedications launch at Centre A in November 2025.
A Note from the Board Chair, Todd Nickel
Dear Friends of TCR,
I’m writing on behalf of the staff and board of The Capilano Review to thank you for the essential support you’ve shown us throughout this past year.
Our community — the one that sustains and animates everything we do — is made up of writers and artists, scholars and readers. It includes generous donors like you, whose commitment makes our work possible, as well as the several levels of government that champion the arts: Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts at the federal level; the BC Arts Council, Creative BC, and the BC Gaming Commission provincially; and the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Foundation locally. The continued support of the anonymous Osbertus Fund, managed by the Vancouver Foundation, has been an essential source of stability and encouragement during difficult economic times.
Our board members contribute time, energy, and imagination to guiding TCR’s direction. And our staff — Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, our Art Editor; Emily Fedoruk, our Literary Editor; and Katherine Gear Chambers, our Managing Editor — have once again brought creativity, care, and resourcefulness to the many complexities of running our small, ambitious organization.
Thanks to you, The Capilano Review continues to thrive as a space for experimental writing and contemporary art. Below — in a nutshell — is the 2025 you helped make possible. Thank you for standing with us.
With gratitude,
Todd Nickel
Chair, Capilano Review Contemporary Arts Society
2025 at The Capilano Review
2025 has been a busy yet energizing year. In addition to the production of our biannual publication – Speculative Feminisms (Spring 2025) and Dedications (Fall 2025) – we were glad to continue engaging with community both online and in person.
This year, The Capilano Review hosted an open submissions period, which drew over 550 submissions, and two writing contests. Our Spring 2025 contest, “Language, the vehicle of power, is a contaminated site,” was guest judged by Wayde Compton and received over 100 submissions. The winning piece by V.M. Ellis will be published in our Spring 2025 issue. Our fall Fall 2025 contest, “Connective | Uncontainable,” was guest judged by Hari Alluri. We have thoroughly enjoyed reading the incredible work received through these calls, and appreciate all who submitted.
Tabling at the Vancouver Art Book Fair was a highlight of the summer, and a wonderful opportunity to connect with many of you. We were very happy to be joined by this year’s summer interns from Capilano University, Livia Pica and Millie Beatch, whose energy and enthusiasm was a gift to TCR. You can read their collaborative From the Archives piece “On the Ecosystem of Innovation” on our website.
In October, we were thrilled to welcome Writer-in-Residence Erín Moure. In the weeks leading up to Moure’s residency, The Capilano Review and Western Front hosted a reading group focused on Moure’s latest book, Theophylline, A(n) (a)po(r)etic migration. Hosted by TCR’s Literary Editor Emily Fedoruk, the reading group gathered in the cozy library at Western Front throughout September. Moure’s residency included a reading and engaging conversation with Alessandra Capperdoni, and a translation workshop, “Embodying Translations, Poetry’s Lea(r)nings.” It was a joy spending time with Moure this fall, and we appreciated Western Front’s generous partnership.
In November, we were delighted to host our first in-person issue launch since 2023! We celebrated the publication of Dedications with readings by Francesca Bennett, Shiv Kotecha and Hannah Azar Strauss. Introduced by Emiko Mortia and Henry Tsang, the evening featured a screening of “The Body Electric,” a short film consisting of outtakes from Jesse Nishihata’s unfinished film featuring Roy Kiyooka and Gerry Shikatani. Tsang’s stills from the film are included in Dedications alongside Shikatani’s “Journal from Roy’s.” We are extremely grateful to Centre A for their abundant generosity hosting the launch.
Thank you to all who have supported The Capilano Review this past year. We are moved by your generosity and enthusiasm, and look forward to many more opportunities to read, write, listen, and learn together in 2026.
Special thanks to this year’s major donors:
Rojeanne and Jim Allworth
Dorothy Jantzen
The Osbertus Fund, held at the Vancouver Foundation
With additional thanks to all of our Friends of TCR!
