September 19, 2019

Issue 01: In Transit

Features

Foreword

Acknowledging the Land

Editorial

Editors' Note

Translator's Note

Bashar Lulu Jabbour

Poetry

Carpool

Zainab Mahdi

Yusuf

Zain Bandali

Untitled

Shams Aldouha Alsayer

Time Machine

Nur Al-Mouna

Culture

Samantha Estoesta Williams

Doorway Effect / Dadar Station

Nitica Sakharwade

Every Refugee is a Poem

Hiba Adel El Miari

In Search of Identity

Hiba Adel El Miari

Remind Them

Shama Saleh

The Mosaic of Brokenness

Jennifer Drews

The New KW

Janice Jo Lee

Treatment

Anonymous

Two Movements

Taylor Small

Why Do the Fare Inspectors Look Armed?

Eve Nyandwi

Short stories

She Gets There

Emily Arnott

The Boy Who Broke the GRT

Aaron T. Francis

Moose

Anonymous

Essays

Grieving a Stranger

Meseret Abebe

Time Moves Both Ways

Ellie Anglin

Duality

Connor Chin-Quee

Credits

Published by Textile, with support from City of Kitchener Community Grant, Waterloo Region Arts Fund, Laurier Students’ Public Interest Group, Ontario Arts Council, Kitchener, Ontario, in 2019

ISSN: 2562-8380

Project Directors:  Fitsum Areguy, Andy Myles

Lead Poetry Editor: Bashar Lulu Jabbour

Visual Curator: Shalaka Jadhav

Editors: Ibtisam Saeed, Mary Ferguson, Racheal Walser, Zainab Mahdi

Design: Matthew Morales

Graphic Design: Bill Watterson

Illustrator: Jo Spiegl

Photographer: Yeabsra Agonfer

Printing: Pandora Print Shop

Cover: Mélika Hashemi

Contributors: Aaron Francis, Ariya Mamum, Connor Chin-Quee, Dagmawit Worku, Ellie Anglin, Emily Arnott, Eve Nyandwi, Hiba Adel El Miari, Janice Jo Lee, Jennifer Drews, Jo Spiegl, Jordan Wallace, Leen Khadour, Mary Ferguson, Mayar Tharwat, Meseret Abebe, Nitica Sakharwade, Nur Al-Mouna, Rachel Carroll, Samantha Estoesta, Shama Saleh, Shams Aldouha Alsayer, Taylor Small, Terre Chartrand, Trisha Abe, Yara Sakalla, Yasmeen Arafeh, Yeabsera Agonfer, Zainab Mahdi, Zain Bandali