Canthius: Feminism & Literary Arts

I am the co-founder and former editor of Canthius, a magazine and non-profit focused on promoting equity in literary publishing. When my partners and I began publishing Canthius in 2015, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts in the United States and Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA) had recently published the first annual counts of the gender breakdown of literary publications. While Canthius began as a response to the pressing need for publishing efforts focused on gender equity, our organization’s mandate has evolved alongside the literary communities to which we belong. We now focus less on advocating for diversity within the literary mainstream and more on building lasting forms of solidarity within and between members of historically marginalized groups. In 2021, Canthius was awarded a prize from the League of Canadian Poets recognizing our “positive and ongoing impact on poetry in Canada.”

Read press about Canthius in Apt613, Verse Ottawa, rob mclennan’s blog, small machine talks, Antler River Poetry.