Canopy Literary Review is a trans/nonbinary-centered but inclusive journal focused on the perspectives gained from adapting one’s identity to ill-fitting or oppressive social constructs.

Welcome to Canopy Literary Review. This journal came about after a yearlong search for publications of its kind that turned up few results. Pride sections of bookstores are well stocked with material on the fight for trans rights; less with literature on just living as an ordinary, everyday trans person. Understandably, given the threats we face, but we’d rather not be completely deprived of the future we fight for. So, we visit, through art, imagination and creative writing.

We are trans/nonbinary-centered, but there are cisgender authors here, too, because we believe the future is collaborative, and adapting to shifting social demands is a skill we all must learn. We seek the perspectives and humor of those who do.

A tree canopy as our symbol for gender-nonconformity began with the idea of leaves having a particular shape that indicates their species while bearing individual differences, transforming over the course of their lives, from delicate green, to a robust green, to a final hue of spectacular decay, each one marked in its own way by insects, wind, squirrels, birds and parasitic spores. The canopy is what gives a tree its treeness, its countenance comprised of every single leaf; thus, in seeking a symbol to represent transgender and nonbinary people, we have happened upon one that represents all.

Anyone is welcome to submit. We seek especially to promote transgender and nonbinary writers and artists. Submissions that stand out will be those that capture the unique perspectives that often come from the effort to preserve one’s identity in the face of ill-fitting or oppressive social constructs.

Canopy Literary Review

We seek high quality literary fiction. Real people in real situations, but dare to explore the outlandish and improbable too. We love innovative writing, surprising plots and characters we’ll still be thinking about years from now.

Anyone is welcome to submit. We seek especially to promote transgender and nonbinary writers and artists. Submissions that stand out will be those that capture the unique perspectives that often come to those whose identities force them to adapt to oppressive or ill-fitting social constructs.

Literary Fiction

Essays can cover any topic. We welcome persuasive, informative, philosophical, humorous, personal, academic, etc.

Creative Nonfiction

Do your poems rhyme? We’ve heard poems don’t rhyme anymore, but we do not subscribe to this philosophy. We can’t wait to read your poetry whether it rhymes or not.

Poetry

A work of speculative fiction is one that changes something about the world we know to show us something we don’t often see in ourselves. Give the world a twist, a tweak, a filter. Show us what we take for granted by giving us a world that lacks it, or imposes too much.

Speculative Fiction

Speculative Nonfiction
A speculative essay is one that changes something about the world we know to show us something we don’t often see in ourselves. Give the world a twist, a tweak, a filter. Show us what we take for granted by giving us a world that lacks it, or imposes too much.

Speculative Nonfiction

Photos, paintings, drawings, sketches, sculptures, comics, political cartoons, etc.

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