What the fuck are we doing?

“Discordia… is funny and candid and quite abrasive, a laxative for the increasingly clenched asshole of CanLit.”
—Bardia Sinaee, Editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2024

Discordia is a secessionist collective against the tepid mainstream literary scene, pissing on the mind-numbing mediocrity of focus-grouped MFA arts and literature, the cynical employment of bourgeois identity rhetoric, and instead championing outsider, combative, and DIY ethos. We reject the staid academic, the post-ironic faux-transgressive reactionary, the censorious killjoy, the profit-driven publishing leech, and the twee hipster douchebags of yesteryear. We encourage an antagonism against and artistic purging of the frauds and the bores via their symbolic crucifixions. We revolt against modern life and art and their hypocrisies.

We also publish zines in print. If you want to submit, you can read the guidelines here.

Eris — Editor-in-Chief
Sire — Consigliere
Courtney Loathe — Office Manager
Xie — Events Coordinator & Head of Distro
Poetry Heel — MC
Dimitri Karakostas — War Correspondent
Joshua Chris Bouchard — Haruspex
David McGorlick — Psychonaut
Doug Fnord — Editorial
Jay Gobuty — Haunting Presence