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Agnes and True

@AgnesandTrue

A Canadian online literary journal that celebrates women and older emerging writers. Submission guidelines: https://teapaw.org/t.co/fjWHPIXWoX

 Toronto, Ontario
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Joined October 2014
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Agnes and True is happy to present our November story, "November Blue," by Cheryl MacLean: agnesandtrue.com/november-bl…
November Blue

November Blue

by Cheryl MacLean Cold seeps through the soles of my shoes, making the space between the bones of my feet ache, working its way up into my ankles. We’d picked this spot in the spring. The plot...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our October story, "Parry and Jab," by Wendy Ungar: agnesandtrue.com/parry-and-j…

Parry and Jab

by Wendy Joan Ungar I parked across from Bubbie Tillie’s converted Victorian duplex on Baldwin Street and shut off the engine. I sat for a moment, quiet, unmoving, nobody knowing I was there. Why...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our August story, "Angelus," by Shiela Jane Olley: agnesandtrue.com/angelus/
Angelus

Angelus

by Shiela Jane Olley They called him Angelus because he was pulled from the rubble of the Nuevo León building at the exact moment that the Angelus bell rang out for the first time since the earthqu...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our June story, "Return to Sender," by Gord Deyo: agnesandtrue.com/return-to-s…
Return to Sender

Return to Sender

by Gord Deyo The letter was folded into quarters, wrapped in a strip of wax paper, and tucked between two blocks of ice at the bottom of the crate like it had been hidden by someone who understood...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our May story, "Re-Opening Night," by Jennifer Falkner: agnesandtrue.com/re-opening-…
Re-Opening Night

Re-Opening Night

by Jennifer Falkner It has nothing to do with the fact that I dried. Or maybe it has everything to do with it A number of people came up afterwards, trying to reassure me with some variation of “a...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our April story, "Exposure," by Lindsay McDonald: agnesandtrue.com/exposure/
Exposure

Exposure

by Lindsay McDonald You let your ex spend the night, and you aren’t really sleeping. Instead you are pretending to sleep—the blanket way up over your head when he pushes his palm into the meaty part...

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Nice piece in my local paper. It’s very strange reading about yourself !! @TregollsC @JoffeBooks
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our readers and writers. We appreciate you all!
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Agnes and True is happy to present our December story, The Olive Oil Story: A Cold Harvest by Edward Sampson: mammaliandaily.com/breaking-…
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Agnes and True is happy to present our October story, The Leftovers of Sugaring Season, by Laurence Lumsden: agnesandtrue.com/the-leftove…

The Leftovers of Sugaring Season

by Laurence Lumsden A solitary pork chop, on a white dinner plate in the centre of the table. Ah, ma pauvre Annabelle, you don’t want to look at it or even think about it—cold, forlorn—but your dad...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our September story, "As the Heart Grows Older," by Paul Moffett: agnesandtrue.com/as-the-hear…

As the Heart Grows Older

by Paul Moffett Wesley loved the chickens, but he knew Max was the most important animal on the farm. The Klassen farm was only about three hundred acres of workable potato fields—not large, but...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our August story, "Sugaring," by Janine Elias Joukema: agnesandtrue.com/sugaring/

Sugaring

by Janine Elias Joukema Amira was hauled to the centre of the airless attic. “Look who I found spying through the keyhole, bent over like an old man,” said Sadie, Amira’s newly married cousin. The...

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How Literature Lost Its Mojo nytimes.com/2025/07/10/opini… via @NYTOpinion
Opinion | When Novels Mattered (Published 2025)

Opinion | When Novels Mattered (Published 2025)

Literature plays a much smaller role in our national life, and this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture.

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Agnes and True is happy to present our June story, "The Bench," by Sandra Anthony: agnesandtrue.com/the-bench/
The Bench

The Bench

by Sandra Anthony I came to the park again today. The bench sits unobtrusively at the top of the bluff overlooking the river. It never changes, day to day or season to season, it simply sits and...

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Today is Canadian Multiculturalism Day! In 1971, the Canadian government adopted multiculturalism as an official policy. Canada was the first country in the world to do so. In 1982, multiculturalism was recognized in Section 27 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Agnes and True is happy to present our May story, "The Order of Things," by Lauren Stein: agnesandtrue.com/the-order-o…
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Agnes and True is happy to present our April Story, "A Murder of Crones," by Christine Cosack: agnesandtrue.com/a-murder-of…

A Murder of Crones

by Christine Cosack When Albert proposed to Celia, back in 1961, he balanced on his left knee in her parents’ living room, held open a little box from Birks that offered a sparkling diamond ring on...

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Agnes and True is happy to present our January 2025 story. Read, "We Were Witches," by R.E. Rule: agnesandtrue.com/we-were-wit…

We Were Witches

by R.E. Rule We were witches, Delilah and I. All that summer we braided old thread into charms and walked invisible when barefoot. Once we held hands and chanted until thunder cracked the horizon and...

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Wishing all writers and readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season. We appreciate all of you.
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