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.
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.
Past contributors to Montréal Serai
Abby Lippman
abouali farmanfarmian
Adam Black
Adele Shtern
Aditya Verma
Ajit Ghai
Alice Cormier
Alejandra Zamudio
Alicia Loría
Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand
Aliya Varma
Allie Duff
Amanda Woolrich
Amani Singh
Ami Sands Brodoff
Amrit Wilson
Amrita Choudhury
Ana Maria Pavela
Anahita Norouzi
Andrés Castro
Andrew J Hill
Anisha Dutt
Anna Fuerstenberg
Anne Bruneau
Anne Cimon
Anne Dubrofsky
Anne Marie Noël
Annie Bouvrette
Antoine Bustros
Anushree Varma
Aparna Sanyal
April Ford
Arjun Janah
Ashoke Dasgupta
Asoke Chakravarty
Astha Agarwal
Avrom Shtern
basil papadimos
Bernard Miller
Blossom Thom
Bonnie Brotman Shore
Breanna Myles
Brenda Linn
Brian Campbell
Brian McDonough
Brian Michael Barbieto
Bryan Sentes
Bulbul Mankani
caraballo-farman
Carlos Ferrand
Carmen Cordero Amores
Carolyn Marie Souaid
Carolyne Van Der Meer
Catherine Bainbridge
Catherine Herrmann
Catherine Watson
Charles William Johnson
Charlotte Hussey
Cheryl Neill
Chief Jean-Charles Piétacho
Chris Velan
Christopher Barnes
Claudia Itzkowich Schñadower
Clayton Bailey
Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux
Collin Black
Cora Siré
Craig Commanda
Cyril Dabydeen
Dan Delaney
Daniel Goldsmith
Darren Ell
Dave-Lentz Lormeus (aka DL Jones)
David Duchow
David Fletcher
David Gates
David Groulx
David Ryback
Dawn McSweeney
Dea Koxhaxhiku
Deanna Smith
Deena Roskies
Deirdre Silverman
Diana Goldberg Mayo
Diane Denault
Dimitri Roussopoulos
Dina Gardashkin
Dinh Le Doan
Dipti Gupta
Divya Singh
DL Jones
Dolores Chew
Dominic Boudreault
Dominique Normand
Doreen Vanderstoop
Dorota Anna Kozinska
Dr. Pramod Dhakal
Dr. Samia Costandi
Durga Chew-Bose
Dyane Lessard
Edgardo “Gar” Morales
Eduardo Galeano
Ehab Lotayef
ekoh dubois
Elana Wolff
El Arbi Mrabet
Élizabeth Gélinas
Ellen Gabriel
Elli Miller Maboungou
Emma Lesur
Endre Farkas
Eric James Jensen
Ernest Webb
Fan Wu
Faiz Abhuani
Faraz Sarwat
Father Gaston Roberge, SJ
Federico Hidalgo
Fernando Moreno
Florence Yee
Frédéric Plourde
G.G. Jolly
Gabi Mathews
Gabriel Obadia
Gabrielle Mathews
Gary Beck
Gaston Roberge
Gavin Morais
Gazelle Bastan
George Vassiadis
Georges Beriault
Gina Roitman
Giuliana Fumagalli
Gloria Macher
Graziella Malagoni
Greg Santos
Gregory P. Starks
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
Guy Sprung
Hilario Chi Canul
Himmat Singh Shinhat
Howard Rosenstein
Hugh Hazelton
Ian Ferrier
Ian McDonald
Iftekhar Ahmed
Ilona Martonfi
Inti Naxhiellii Barrios Hernandez
Irène Johnson
Jack Klein
Jacqueline Fortson
James Cockcroft
James Olwell
James Oscar
Jan Jorgensen
Jane Affleck
Janet Singleton
Jason Botkin
Jaspreet Singh
Jayanta Guha
Jesse Noah Klein
Jila Mossaed
Jim Upton
Jody Freeman
Johanne Nielsen
Johanne Ricard
John Bradley
John Fretz
John Molto Fretz
Jooneed J Khan
Jordan Dessertine
Jorge Cancino
Jorge Etcheverry Arcaya
José Luis Aranda
Joseph Kary
Joshua Rapp Learn
Joy Moore
Joyce Arthur
Joyce Valbuena
Julian Samuel
Juliana Keller
Julie Mahfood
Justine Béliveau
K. Gandhar Chakravarty
Kaie Kellough
Kalpesh Oza
Kamalinee
Karan Singh
Karin Cope
Katharine Beeman
Katherine Clarke-Nolan
Kathryn Jordan
Kayhan Irani
Keena
Kerry McElroy
Kevin Callahan
Keya Dasgupta
Klara du Plessis
Konstantinos Meramveliotakis
Koulsy Lamko
Laura Neidhart
Laurel Páez Brave
Leah Kanerahtaroroks Diome
Lesley Pasquin
Lesley Strutt
Linda Briskin
Linda Leith
Ling Yuen
Lingling Geng
Lisa Foster
Liza Sokolovskaya
Loren Edizel
Lorraine Simms
Lorrie Beauchamp
Louise Carson
Louise Dessertine
Luigi Monteferrante
Lyne Lapointe
Madeleine Chevalier
Maha el Marraghi
Máire B. Noonan
Malcolm Guy
Malcolm Reid
Mara Grey
Maren Wickwire
Maria Al-Masani
María Reneyda Xool Yam
Maria Worton
Marianne Ackerman
Marie Boti
Marie Thérèse Blanc
Marie-Josée Tremblay
Mark A. Krupa
Mark Foss
Mark Kingwell
Mark Silverman
Martine Eloy
Martyn Bryant
Mary Dean Lee
Mary Ellen Davis
MaryCarl Guiao
Matt Jones
Matt Lipscombe
Matthew Soule
Maya Khamala
Maya Khankhoje
Mayank Bhatt
Medha Singh
Megan Tolbert
Meghri Doumanian
Mehdi Naïmi
Merrianne Couture
Michael Bristol
Michael Fish
Michael Mirolla
Michael Moore
Michael Neumann
Michel Chuossudovsky
Michèle Audette
Mike Wozniewki
Miles Weinstein
Mirella Bontempo
Miriam Edelson
Moinak Banerjee
Mostafa Henaway
Nada El-Omari
Nadine Ltaif
Naghmeh Sharifi
Najat Rahman
Nancy Ferragallo
Naomi Bellos
Nasrin Himada
Ned Baeck
Neilesh Bose
Nelsy Massoud
Nicholas Hamel
Nick Foster
Nicola Vulpe
Nigel Thomas
Nilambri Ghai
Nilanjan Dutta
Niranjana Iyer
Norman Nawrocki
Ocean DeRouchie
Oleg Dergachov
Ossie Michelin
Paris Elizabeth Sea
Pasha M. Khan
Pat Osborne
Patrick Barnard
Patrick Bolland
Patrick Visentin
Paul Hawkins
Paul Serralheiro
Paula Friedman
Peter Fourie
Peter Hallward
Peter Martin
Philip Tinkler
Pietro Ferrua
Pranav Prakash
Prasun Lala
Priyanka Borpujari
Prospero Saiz
Rae Marie Taylor
Rahul Banerjee
Rahul Varma
Rajashri Dasgupta
Rajath A. Suri
Rana Bose
Ranabir Samaddar
Raphael Cohen-Demers
Rawi Hage
Renate Lindeman
Renée Duval
Richard Swift
Robert Knight
Robert Paquin
Roberto Perezdiaz
Roger Jochym
Rola Harmouche
Rona Altrows
Ronit Milo
rosalind hampton
Rosemany Ahtuangaruak
s. ramgoolam
Sáasil Uj Chi Xool
Sam Boskey
Sam Noumoff
Samia Costandi
Sana Khawaja Saeed
Sandeep Banerjee
Sandra Levy
Saswata Sen
Savannah Stewart
Savita Singh
Savitri Sawhney
Scott Weinstein
SéKAI SéKAI
Serena Sial
Shahroze Rauf
Shankar Tadwal
Shanti Kumari Johnson
Sharlene Bamboat
Sharon Bourke
Sharon Lax
Sharon Zajdman (S. Nadja Zajdman)
Sheila Kristinnson
Sheila Stewart
Sheniz Janmohamed
Shree Mulay
Shubhobroto Ghosh
Shyamal Bagchee
Simon Van Vliet
Sipi Flamand
Sivan Slapak
Sofia Mesa
Sophie Gazarian
Stan Gray
Stan Swamy
Stanley Février
Stefan Christoff
Stella Pace
Stephen Morrissey
Steve Zylbergold
Subhadra Khaperde
Subhendu Dasgupta
Subir Das
Sujata Dey
Sundus Abdul Hadi
Susan Dubrofsky
Suzanne Côté
Sylvia Goldfarb
Tahieròn:iohte Dan David
Talleen Hacikyan
Tamara Faith Berger
Tamara Nazywalskyj
Tania Nesterovski
Tanya Kaur Bindra
Tapan Kumar Bose
Tariq Jeeroburkhan
Taryn Foster
Terrie Shauer
Thaer Husien
Thomas Marcel Hurtut
Tia Sarkar
Tilak Seth
Tiziano Cruz
Tomás Ramírez
Tor Wennerberg
Trisha Srivastav
Truong Thi Huong Thuy
Uday Khankhoje
Uma Parameswaran
Vanaja Dhruvarajan
Vanessa Chio
Veena Gokhale
Vithal Rajan
Vrajesh Hanspal
Warren Allmand
Wartin Pantois
Yahia Lababidi
Yung-chien Lew
Yves Decoste
Yves Sioui Durand
Zab Maboungou
Zachary Jericho Couture
Zahra Haider
Zoë Johnston
