Yolk's 9th issue, Vol. 5.1, features winners of the 2025 Montreal Fiction Prize, poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, and visual art by emerging and established Canadian artists.
Cover Art: By Shelley Molloy
2025 Montreal Fiction Prize winners: Hannah Berger, Su Chang, Helene Han Wei Luo
Work By: MICHAEL CHANG, Claire Drummond, Lawrence Fafard, Foster Gareau, Cicely Grace, Silas James, Allegra Kaplan, Thomas Latendresse, Jolene Loveday, Shelly Molloy, Aaron Rabinowitz, Sabyah Seyam, Brigitte de Valk, and Christina Wells.
“There’s a cyclical feeling of not being able to escape the past while looking to the future for something new. The work is probing, dissatisfied, humming and incandescent in its state of searching for a new way of being—an ontology of revision, a friction between the past and the future.” -Curtis John McRae, Editor-in-Chief
Yolk acknowledges that our work in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal takes place on the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation. Tiohtià:ke is known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and we recognize the Kanien’kehá:ka as custodians of the lands on which we gather.
Yolk warmly acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the English Language Arts Network’s Trellis Micro-grant project, funded by The Department of Canadian Heritage’s Official Languages Support Programs.
