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Today, we continue to publish two issues of Vallum magazine and two chapbooks in the Vallum Chapbook Series per year, as well as coordinating city-wide outreach workshops. In 2005, VSEAL launched the Vallum Chapbook Series, which publishes two chapbooks each year, and whose authors include George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Fanny Howe, and more. The same year, the organization was incorporated as the Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters (VSEAL), a registered charity publishing Vallum magazine and holding poetry/literacy workshops in Montreal and beyond. In 2003, the organization expanded beyond the magazine to organizing poetry workshops in local schools – these workshops grew into the outreach program Poetry for our Future!which now offers 35-40 workshops across the city each year. They both graduated from Concordia’s Creative Writing program and saw a need for an English-language poetry journal in Montreal. Vallum was founded by poets Eleni Zisimatos and Joshua Auerbach in 2000.

For this Organization Spotlight, publicist Rosie Long Decter speaks on behalf of the Vallum team.Ĭan you introduce a bit of Vallum’s history? How was the publication founded? As one of Canada’s top poetry journals with an international focus, Vallum encourages dialogue between Quebec and the rest of Canada and allows Canadian artists to exchange ideas with acclaimed and emerging artists from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Australia, India and other countries around the world.

Vallum provides a forum for emerging artists to interact with more established figures while giving them exposure and the confidence to continue with their art. Founded in 2000 and based in Montreal, Vallum magazine is published biannually.