ABOUT HELD MAGAZINE

HELD Magazine is an online artistic and literary journal that aims to explore how all systems are interconnected, interdependent, and ever-shifting. The magazine is, itself, a system: a system of editors, designers, artists, and writers; of creators and audiences; a system where artists and writers can go to make meaning in a time where meaning is fraught. 

HELD focuses on increasing access and opportunities for diverse voices: to support writers and artists who have experienced barriers to publication and who have been systematically marginalized in the literary community. We want to create a space of experimentation and hybridity, a place of play and emergence. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, experimental writing, and visual art. 

HELD Magazine is led by MFA students at the University of Guelph. We are grateful for the funding we have received through the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Enhancement Fund, the Student Life Enhancement Fund, and the Creating in a Time of Coronavirus Fund, as well as for the support we have received from the School of English and Theatre Studies, the School of Fine Art and Music, the MFA in Creative Writing, and the MFA in Studio Art.