About

Montréal Serai is a non-profit webzine focused on arts, culture and politics. We began in 1986 as a local theatre and arts collective that went on to produce a print magazine before going digital. Our driving force: creating new communities, new arts, new solidarities, where voices once relegated to the margins take centre stage.

Montréal Serai aims to stretch beyond colonial mindsets with thoughtful essays, interviews with artists, elders and activists, reviews, commentaries, short stories, poems, artwork, videos, music, and much more. Neither strictly local nor focusing on current affairs, our magazine gives space to alternative perspectives that transcend and challenge mainstream concerns.

Based in Montréal, known far longer as Tiohtiá:ke, our webzine is recognized as an inclusive and welcoming space in which both emerging and established artists and writers can engage. Serai (from the Persian word, caravanserai) means a resting place for travelers. 

This land – Tiohtiá:ke – was never surrendered. It is live, unceded territory. We offer our respect and thanks to the many Indigenous nations that have honoured its waters and forests and skies for millennia. In particular, we thank its guardians, the Kanien’kéha: ka (Mohawk) people – and the Algonquin and Huron-Wendat peoples who share deep ties with this land. We are grateful for their ongoing leadership and teachings that have not been silenced, even in the face of genocide and 500 years of colonial plunder and devastation. Niawen. Chi megwetch. Tiawenhk. 

 
 
 
 

For Submission guidelines, please check the submissions tab.

For our commitment to ensure a positive and affirming environment, please consult Montréal Serai’s public statement and policy against harassment and violence. 


 

  • We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
  • Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

Contributors:

Name
Abby Lippman
Abou Farmaian 
Adam Black
Adele Shtern
Aida Sameer 
Alicia Loría
Aliya Varma
Ami Sands Brodoff
Amir Hodhod 
Amit Srivastava 
Amrita Choudhury 
Ana Maria Pavela
Andre Gunder Frank
Andréanne Bouchard
Andrés Castro
Andrew J Hill
Andris Karklins 
Anisha Dutt
Anna Fuerstenberg 
Anne Bruneau
Anne Cimon
Anne Dubrofsky
Anne Henderson
Anne Marie Noël
Annie Bouvrette
Antoine Bustros
Anushree Varma
Aparna Sanyal
Arjun Janah
Armen Georgian 
Ashoke Dasgupta
Asoke Chakravarty
Astha Agarwal
Avrom Shtern
Aziz Choudry
Barbara Lefcowitz 
Bernard Miller
Blair Ewing 
Bonnie Brotman Shore
Breanna Myles 
Brian Campbell
Brian McDonough
Brian Michael Barbieto
Brigitte Schulze 
Bryan Sentes
Bulbul Mankani
C D Cunha 
Carlos Ferrand
Carmen Cordero Amores
Carmine Starnino 
Catherine Watson
Charlotte Hussey
Cheryl Neill 
Chris Velan
Christopher Barnes 
Claudia Itzkowich
Claudia Itzkowich Schñadower
Clayton Bailey
Cora Siré
Cynthia Fuchs 
Cyril Dabydeen
Dan Delaney
Daniel Goldsmith
Darren Ell
David Duchow
David Fennario
David Fletcher
David Gates
David McNally 
David Ryback
David Solway 
Dawn McSweeney
Dean Serravalle
Deanna Smith
Deena Roskies
Deirdre Silverman 
Diana Goldberg Mayo
Diane Denault
Dimitri Roussopoulos 
Dina Gardashkin
Dinh Le Doan
Dipti Gupta
Dolores Chew
Dominic Boudreault
Dominique Normand
Doreen Vanderstoop
Doris Bouffard
Dorit Dornier 
Dorota Kozinska
Dr. Pramod Dhakal
Durga Chew-Bose
Dvora Levin
Edgardo "Gar" Morales
Eduardo Galeano 
Ehab Lotayef
ekoh dubois
Ellen Gabriel 
Emily Abendroth 
Emma French 
Emmanuel Ortiz 
Endre Farkas 
Faraz Sarwat 
Father Gaston Roberge
Federico Hidalgo
Fortner Anderson 
Freda Guttman 
Frederic Plourde
Gabrielle Mathews
Gary Beck 
Gary Johnson 
George Vassiadis
Ghassan Bishara 
Glynis Humphrey 
Graham Knight 
Graziella Malagoni
Greg Crockatt 
Greg Santos
Gregory P. Starks
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
Guy Sprung
Henrick de Pagter 
Hillel Kagan
Homa Hoodfar 
Hossam Bahgat 
Howard Karlitz 
Iain Maloney 
Ian McDonald 
Ilona Martonfi 
Imtiaz Alam 
Irene Johnson
Irene Kon 
J L Jackson 
J Loewenstein 
Jacqueline Fortson
James D. Cockcroft 
James Olwell
James Oscar
Janet Lumb
Jason Botkin 
Jaspreet Singh 
Jayanta Guha
Jeanne Sindic 
Jeffrey Aarles 
Jesse Noah Klein
Jody Freeman
Johanne Nielsen
John Bradley
John Carter 
John D Devine 
John Lacny 
John Molto Fretz
Jooneed Khan 
Jordan Dessertine
Jorge Cancino
Joshua Rapp Learn
Joshua Tanzer 
Joy Moore
Joyce Arthur
Joyce Valbuena
Juan Fernández Gonzalez
Julian Samuel 
Juliana Keller
Julie Bruck 
Julie Mahfood
K. Gandhar Chakravarty
Kaie Kellough
Kamalinee
Kane Faucher 
Karan Singh
Karin Cope
Kate Browne 
Kayhan Irani
Keena
Ken McGoogan 
Kerry McElroy
Klara du Plessis
Konstantinos Meramveliotakis
Laura Neidhart
Lawrence Walker 
Leopold Plotikg 
Lesley Pasquin 
Lesley Strutt
Liam Durcan 
Linda Leith
Ling Yuen
Lingling Geng
Lisa Foster
Liza Sokolovskaya
Lorrie Beauchamp
Louise Carson
Louise Dessertine
Louise Drouin 
Lucien Francoeur
Luigi Monteferrante
Lyne Lapointe
M A Qadeer 
M Chossudovsky 
M K Ajay 
Madeleine Chevalier
Maha el Marraghi
Mahmood Mamdani 
Mahmoud Darwish 
Maire Noonan
Malcolm Guy
Malcolm Reid
Mara Grey
Maren Wickwire
Maria Al-Masani
Maria Cuervo 
Maria Durana 
Maria Worton 
Marianne Ackerman
Marie Boti
Marie Thérèse Blanc
Marie-Josée Tremblay
Mark Antony Krupa 
Mark Goldfarb 
Mark Kingwell 
Mark Silverman 
Martha Chaves 
Martyn Bryant
Mary Ellen Davis 
MaryCarl Guiao
Matt Jones
Matthew Soule
Maya Khamala
Maya Khankhoje 
Megan Tolbert
Meghri Doumanian
Mehdi Naïmi
Merrianne Couture
Michael Albert 
Michael Bristol
Michael Bryson 
Michael Fish
Michael Little 
Michael Neumann
Mick Collins 
Mike Wozniewki
Miles Weinstein 
Mirella Bontempo
Nada El-Omari
Nadine Ltaif
Naghmeh Sharifi 
Najat Rahman
Nalini Johnson
Nancy Ferragallo
Naomi Bellos
Nasrin Himada
Neilesh Bose
Nelsy Massoud 
Nicholas Hamel
Nick Foster
Nicolas Messenger 
Nigel Thomas
Nilambri Ghai
Nilanjan Dutta
Niranjana Iyer
Norman Nawrocki
Oleg Dergachov  (aka Oleh Derhachov)
Orissa Arend 
Orville Lloyd Douglas 
Paris Elizabeth Sea
Parnab Mukherjee 
Pat Osborne
Patrick Barnard 
Patrick Bolland
Patty Lynne Herlevi 
Paul Hawkins
Paul Hellyer 
Paul Manly
Paul Serralheiro
Paul Wilson 
Paula Friedman
Paula Nechak 
Persheng Vaziri 
Peter Fourie 
Peter Martin 
Peter McEwan 
Peter Scowen 
Peter Such 
Pharaoh 
Philip Tinkler
Pietro Ferrua 
Prasun Lala
Priyanka Borpujari
Prospero Saiz
R Bahramitash 
R.A. Rosenstone 
Rajashri Dasgupta
Rana Bose 
Rana Ockaili
Ranabir Samaddar
Raphael Cohen-Demers
Rawi Hage 
Ray McGinnis
Raymond Furlotte
Renate Lindeman
Renée Duval
Richard Swift
Rima Banerji 
Robert Blincoe 
Robert D. Walker 
Robert J. Lewis 
Robert Knight
Robert Paquin 
Roberto Godoy
Roberto Perezdiaz
Robin MacKinnon 
Roger Jochym
Rola Harmouche
Rona Altrows
Ronit Milo
Rosalind Hampton
Rosemany Ahtuangaruak
Ruth Conniff 
Ruwantissa Abeyratne 
S. Nadja Zajdman
Sam Boskey 
Sam Noumoff
Samia Costandi
Samuel Herzoi 
Sana Khawaja Saeed
Sandra Levy
Saqib Mausoof 
Sarah Ghazal Khaliqi 
Saswata Sen
Savannah Stewart
Savita Singh
Scott Hammond 
Scott Weinstein
Sean Dowd
Sean Healy 
SéKAI SéKAI
Serena Sial
Shailja Patel 
SHAM
Shane Allison 
Shane Neilson 
Shanti Kumari Johnson
Sharon Bourke
Sharon Zajdman
Sheila Kristinnson 
Shelley Miller
Sheniz Janmohamed
Shree Mulay
Shubhobroto Ghosh
Shyamal Bagchee
Simon Van Vliet
Sivan Slapak
Stan Gray
Stan Swamy
Stefan Christoff
Stella Pace
Stephen B. Hawkins 
Steven Zylbergold
Subir Das
Suheir Hammad 
Sujata Dey
Sundus Abdul Hadi
Susan Dubrofsky 
Suzanne Côté
Sylvia Goldfarb 
Talleen Hacikyan
Tamara Faith Berger
Tamara Nazywalski
Tamara Nazywalskyj
Tania Nesterovsky 
Tanya Kaur Bindra
Tapan Kumar Bose
Tara Atluri 
Tariq Jeeroburkhan
Taryn Foster
Terrie Schauer 
Thomas Marcel Hurtut
Tia Sarkar
Tisha Srivastav 
Tobias Rose-Stockwell 
Tomas
Tomas Ramirez
Uday Khankhoje
Uma Parameswaram
Urs Steiner 
Van Jones 
Vanaja Dhruvarajan
Veena Gokhale
Vithal Rajan
Waïl S. Hassan 
Warren Allmand
Wartin Pantois
William Blum
Y Loyola-Nazareth 
Yahia Lababidi 
Yung-chien Lew
Yves Decoste
Yvonne Bird