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.
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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:
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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 |