Canopy Literary Review

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Issue One

Launch Edition

Contents

Fiction

Personne by Alex Jennings

A Green Year by James Sullivan

Medusa Has a Drinking Problem by Samuel Edwards

The Iron Ballerina by JJ Amaworo Wilson

Barb Refused to Burn by Steven Lang

Mrs. David Padowak by Heather Jones

Poetry

Cherubim by Wyrd Lea

Poem a Day for Chelsea Manning by Z! Haukeness

Metal Knee and 2 others by Jeff Kass

Alight in the South Field by Eben Thomas

Nonfiction

Are We Here Yet? by Calla Eris Orion

When It Is and When It Is Not by Cassie Mangano

Mother Tongue Meets Her Nonbinary Child REVIEW by Thomas Larson

Pizza with Anarchies REVIEW by Heather Jones

Photo by Eugene Chystiakov

Fiction

Poetry

Nonfiction

Welcome to the Launch!

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Canopy One

March 30, 2026

Welcome to Canopy Literary Review. This journal came about after a yealong 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

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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.