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Maisonneuve's masthead is switching up! We are proud to announce that una rose will be taking over as editor-in-chief starting with the Fall 2025 issue. nour abi-nakhoul, who has been with the magazine since Spring 2023, is leaving to complete her second novel.

"I approach the glow of Jack Astor’s neon sign on a mission. I want to know whether the family-style restaurant is really over, and if so, whether it deserves the death we’ve served it." Read Ziya Jones's take on the state of the family-style chain: maisonneuve.org/article/2025/0…

Using her experience as a former therapist for queer youth and their families, Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love explores how to build bridges between frightened, reactive parents and their trans and gender-diverse children. Illustration by Ambivalently Yours maisonneuve.org/article/2025/0…

Taking pitches at my brand new maisy email [email protected] send me your ideas & arguments by June 2!

What Maisonneuve Magazine's looking for: 1. Well-researched, narrative-driven stories balancing a sense of storytelling w/ thoughtful analysis 2. A strong point of view/argument 3. Lyrical, literary scene-setting that draws the reader in Find out more ⬇️⬇️⬇️ maisonneuve.org/contribute/

"Within many diasporic communities there is a kind of pain we recognize but feel we cannot name. That is the wound to me: that we are waiting for permission to hurt, let alone to heal." Read Leanne Toshiko Simpson's emotional essay "The Stories We Carry": maisonneuve.org/article/2025/0…

One week left to send us your pitches for Fall 2025!

"As I listened to my father’s story, I realized he held the events of that day in a way history books will not or cannot. He knew the truth long before it became public, as did millions of other Iranians." Read Nazanin Meshkat's "A Lie and a Coup": maisonneuve.org/article/2025/0…

"When someone’s spouse passes away, they become a widow or a widower. But when an adult loses their parents, there’s no term to describe them aside from those like the saccharine 'adult orphan.'" Read Vicky Qiao discussing grieving as an only child: maisonneuve.org/article/2025/0…

Thank you to everyone who sent in pitches, we'll be replying over the next week!

"In the weeks that followed, I carved still-bleeding steak for child actors on a pony farm upstate. I worked a Pepsi commercial with an aspiring comedian who wouldn’t stop talking while I tried to read on my phone." New fiction by Cassidy McFadzean: maisonneuve.org/article/2025/0…