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by Jade Palmer
Welcome to carte blanche issue 54. Featuring fiction, poetry, translation, creative nonfiction, photography, and comics, this issue shines a light on our international contributors while still placing these voices in conversation with our Quebecois and Canadian roots.
Comic by Sunny Strader
Sunny Strader is an artist based in rural Illinois, USA. She makes comics and sculpture, works as a psychic medium, and runs an astrology snail mail club from her home studio, sending mailings to readers around the world.
Comic by Katrina Dahl Vogl
Katrina Dahl Vogl is a Mexico City-based writer and illustrator. She received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2023.
Creative nonfiction by Mary Fontana
The Pyrenees and the Alps, which stretched from east to west, meant that many trees were unable to move south ahead of the ice.
Creative nonfiction by Theresa Lin
In his essay “Exhaling,” Carrère quotes Freud, who quotes Ludwig Börne:
Take a few sheets of paper and for three days on end write down, without fabrication or hypocrisy, everything that comes into your head.
Creative nonfiction by by Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Being transported into this forest requires that you first drive a string of streets too narrow for more than a single car, then take a stretch of highway that cuts not through hills but instead through improbably flattened and uniform terrain.
Fiction by Sharalyn Barg
In late spring the year the virus came, the company treated us to a mental wellness seminar. We joined the video call from separate soundproof booths.
Fiction by by Garima Chhikara
Ira thrived in the lost hours, the unaccounted hours of her day, when she did absolutely nothing—hours that were fluid, intimate, and ambiguous.
Fiction by by Adam Dizon
Lying in front of us was the body of a young horse. It looked deflated, its stick-like limbs sprawled over the side of the table, one hoof hovering just above the floor.
Cover art by Laurena Finéus
In “Jardin de Mackandal” (The Garden of Mackandal), the focus is the breadfruit tree, a hardy symbol of survival. Known for its role in Haiti's reforestation, the breadfruit tree thrives in poor soil and is a reliable source of sustenance, especially in times of crisis.