We’re publishing fresh voices and visions

Arrival is a new online literary magazine led by a collective of students in Humber College’s Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing program.

Meet our current editors and creative team...

  • Patricia Arhinson

    Patricia is a managing editor and poetry editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Grant Black

    Grant is a fiction editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Ava Edwards

    Ava is a communications assistant for No. 1: Community.

  • Em Fabbri

    Emily is a creative nonfiction editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Amy Hutchcraft

    Amy is a fiction editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Adrian Kovac

    Adrian is an interviews editor for No. 1: Community

  • Ariesha Mais

    Areisha is a managing editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Vanessa Rolson

    Vanessa is a fiction editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Raegen Montaque

    Raegen is a poetry editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Louie Simonin

    Louie is an interviews editor for No. 1: Community.

  • Ezra Wallace

    Ezra is a creative nonfiction editor for No. 1: Community.

Mission

Arrival is an entry point for emerging writers studying creative writing at the postsecondary level in Canada.

We formed in November of 2023: Picture a bunch of ardent, oddball second-year students in a basement classroom at Humber College’s Lakeshore campus, all of us eager to make something of our own. We knew from the beginning what we wanted Arrival to be—a place for new writers to showcase their work, and specifically writers who also attend writing programs like our own. We want this online magazine to be the place where emerging writers from Canada’s creative and professional writing programs can publish their best original work, a vibrant hub that lifts up the next generation of writers.

As writers who are just starting out, we know how difficult it is to get published in literary journals and magazines, so who better to help other writers than ourselves? Who better to start a conversation between Canada’s undergraduate-level creative writing programs? We are here to build a network of writers, a community of people who share our passion and our desire to connect with readers and writers alike.

Faculty Leads

Meaghan Strimas
Program Coordinator & Professor, Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing, Faculty of Media and Creative Arts

David Brock
Professor, Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing, Faculty of Media and Creative Arts

Land Acknowledgement and Statement of Reconciliation

Arrival Magazine and Humber College would like to recognize that we are part of an unwelcome settlement on the traditional and treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Adoobiigok is uniquely situated along Humber River Watershed, which historically provided an integral connection for Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples between the Ontario Lakeshore and the Lake Simcoe/Georgian Bay regions. Though the Mississaugas of the Credit were willing to share this land with settlers, they were deceived by colonisers into completely signing away their land and rights, which resulted in a cultural and economic devastation that is still felt today.

As an art and literature magazine, we understand the power that culture, language, storytelling, and artistry has to unify and inspire people. We can only imagine how wounding it would be to have these expressions silenced for so long. That is why we are committed to building a diverse creative community where every voice can be heard, and every story can be told.

As we grow, we at Arrival Magazine and Humber College want to help amplify the voices of emerging Mississaugas of the Credit writers, and all emerging Indigenous writers existing on Turtle Island. We aim for Arrival to honour the teachings of those who were here before us, and are dedicated to taking the necessary steps to fulfilling this goal.

Arrival is made possible through the funding and support of Humber’s Faculty of Media and Creative Arts.