"there isn't anyone actually dancing
among the clouds"
Excerpt from Justine Berezintsev's poem "Cloud Dance" + detail from Claire Ibarra's ๐ถ๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐ (2023)
Read Justine's poem in ISSUE 2.4: longconmag.com/issue-2-4/ju...
Two deadlines over at longconmag.com!
APR 30: submit your art-replying-to-art for issue 2.5!
JUNE 30: enter our new Mountebank Prize by submitting an artistic reply to a painting by Alex Colville. Prize: $100 + publication in issue 2.6.
(๐จ: Alex Colville's ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐ ๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ป๐๐๐๐, 1989)
Hey! We can see that artwork you have there. Yep: that artwork. The one right there that replies to ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐'s artwork!
Give it here, please?
[Submit by April 30 for inclusion in ISSUE 2.5: longconmag.com/submit/]
We've extended our submission deadline for issue 2.5!
Send us your artwork-that-replies-to-another-artwork by May 14: longconmag.com/submit/
#canadianart #canlit #artaboutart
[This immersive monologue brought to you by ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ in partnership with ๐จ Alex Colville's ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐๐, 1965.]
#litmags #canlit #canadianpoetry #canadianfiction #canadiannonfiction #canadianart #canadianartist #canadianartists #canadianpainting #canadianmusic #artaboutart
"They become implicated in the shape of the building they are making, and the light we use to see it."
Excerpt from Morgan Maclaren Beck's "Three Views of ๐โ๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ " + detail from Caillebotte's ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐ (1875)
Read Morgan's essay in ISSUE 2.4: longconmag.com/issue-2-4/mo...
Cover art for ISSUE 2.4: ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ by Andrew James McKay (andrewjamesmckay.com)
ISSUE 2.4 (longconmag.com/issue-2-4/) is Morgan Maclaren Beck, Justine Berezintsev, Caitlynn Cummings, Angel T. Dionne (@woodenmormyrid.bsky.social), Hannah Gardiner, Cicely Grace, Crystal Hurdle, Tanis MacDonald, Andrew James McKay, Kianna Mkhonza, Darby Myr, & Julie Triganne
Wait now: that one too! Yes, that one that replies to a work by legendary ON/NS painter #AlexColville!
Haaaand it over.
[Enter the inaugural Mountebank Prize by June 30: longconmag.com/prize/.]
"that garden
party in which I lay long ago
in a sleeping bag beside my sister
and beside six or twenty sweet-pitched crickets"
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Garden Party by Cicely Grace (2026 @longconmagazine.bsky.social) longconmag.com/issue-2-4/ci...
