Border Crossings Magazine

Highlights

Border Crossings publishes essays, fiction and poetry. The following writers and poets have been featured:

A
Arnason, David - Issues 14, 28, 38, 41, 54, 62
Atwood, Margaret - Issues 54, 76
B
Babstock, Ken - Issue 103
Baerwaldt, Wayne - Issue 107
Baird, Daniel - Issues 97, 99
Berger, John - Issue 54
Berry, Michelle - Issue 78
C
Carey, Peter - Issue 78
Cooley, Dennis - Issues 34, 43, 45, 73
Coupland, Douglas - Issue 83
Crozier, Lorna - Issues 39, 45, 89, 93
D
Dault, Gary Michael - Issues 52, 53, 63, 73, 102, 108
E
Enright, Robert Interviews, Film Column and Borderviews in every issue
F
Friesen, Patrick - Issues 17, 43, 51, 54
Ford, Richard - Issue 80
G
Galeano, Eduardo - Issue 52
Geddes, Gary - Issues 33, 48, 60, 83
Genosko, Gary - Issues 67, 76, 78, 79
H
Hawkes, John - Issue 36
Henderson, Lee - Issues 96, 107
van Herk, Aritha - Issues 36, 50
I
Irving, John - Issue 52
K
King, Thomas - Issues 44, 72
Kozloff, Max - Issue 78
Kostash, Myrna - Issues 59, 64, 65, 66
Kroetsch, Robert - Issues 23, 74
Keefer, Janice Kulyk - Issue 67
L
Lane, Patrick - Issues 24, 76
Langford, Martha - Issues 60, 68, 75, 78, 86
Lawrence, Katherine - Issue 79
Lista, Michael - Issue 104
M
Maddin, Guy - Issue 96
Margoshes, Dave - Issues 57, 85
Michaels, Anne - Issues 68, 69
Musgrave, Susan - Issues 76, 81
P
Page, P.K. - Issues 67, 81, 86
R
Rhodes, Shane - Issue 101
Rooke, Leon - Issues 57, 67
Rubinsky, Holley - Issue 67
Rushdie, Salman - Issue 31
Ruzesky, Jay - Issues 60, 75
S
Shields, Carol - Issues 63, 74
Sontag, Susan - Issue 26
Sullivan, Rosemary - Issues 61, 72, 77
T
Tefs, Wayne - Issues 50, 53, 56, 60
V
Vanderhaeghe, Guy - Issues 38, 50
W
Walsh, Meeka essays - Issues 38, 56, 66, 84; Introduction to artists’ work in selected issues; Bordernotes in every issue

Some recent features: 

Essays
Issue 107. "Winnipeg: You’ve Come Undone or, You’ve Got to Get Down to Get Up" by Wayne Baerwaldt.

Issue 86. "War Gaze" by Janice Kulyk Keefer. A meditation on the art of representing war.

Issue 83. "Making War, Making Light" by Gary Geddes. Poet and writer Gary Geddes on his 2001 travels to Afganistan, where he finds a nation of both beauty and pain, still under seige from within and without.

Issue 77. "The Connoisseur of Stones" by Rosemary Sullivan. Poet and writer Rosemary Sullivan writes about the fantastic Le Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval. Built over 33 years by one man, the castle of stones was completed in 1912.

Issue 76. "The Awkward Sublime" by Margaret Atwood, "A Quintessential Man" by Susan Musgrave. A tribute to the writer Al Purdy.

Issue 63. "Solitary Motion" by Alison Wearing. Award-winning travel writer Alison Wearing follows the Silk Road.

Poetry
Issue 105 - Barry Dempster
Issue 104 - Michael Lista
Issue 103 - Ken Babstock
Issue 101 - Shane Rhodes
Issue 89 -  Lorna Crozier
Issue 86 - P.K. Page
Issue 76 - Patrick Lane
Issue 74 - Robert Kroetsch

Fiction
Issue 96. "Conjugation" by Lee Henderson. This short story, originally published in Border Crossings, took home a gold medal in Fiction at the Western Magazine Awards in 2006 and is shortlisted for the McLelland & Stewart Journey Prize.

Journals
Issue 99. "In the Second World: A Journal" by Arni Haraldsson. Photographer Arni Haraldsson’s journal entries from his seven-week residency at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.

Issue 98. "Boxed Sweet: Donald Judd on the Marfa Road" by Robin Laurence. A West Texas travel journal.