Memewar is a free magazine committed to creating conversations between disciplines. As contributors' thoughts clash and merge, we will see what connections, and possible solutions, arise.

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Issue #6: Billable Hours	Our current team within this issue includes some of the finest business professionals in the field—a handpicked group of real artists that can tackle a topic as vast as “the workplace” and can make wonderful sense of it. For your consideration: Cecily Nicholson’s “Service” offers a stark portrait of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and documents the process of the area, its industry and displacement. Garry T. Morse imagines the future of the corporation, and prophesizes the “Ergonomicon”—a tool that will revolutionize office work forever! Kim Minkus shares her “Factory Report,” an assembly line poem that pieces together mass production, industry standards, and gender. Kristopher Fulton, a local composer (and go-getter) tells Memewar about his path towards success and the changing landscape of choral singing in Canada.
Issue #5: Heirlooms	In this issue of Memewar, our contributors illustrate a past they've created, remembered, or learned from. Rhoda Hodjati shows us the struggle of a Chipewyan woman journaling through a changing history in "Cold Post Reds." Phinder Dulai's poems are delicate and haunting reminders of where we've come from. Through an interview, we will see where Wayde Compton has been. Gloria Personne will show us that even fictional histories give us our sense of place. As soon as we printed it, this issue was history.
Issue #4: Where is My Flying Car?	This issue of Memewar is a testament to the future. It includes poetry by Matt Rader and Jami Macarty, an interview with Vancouver-based band Elias, and an essay by Thomas Vogle about Adrienne Clarkson and the future of Canadian diversity. Jonathan Sherman presents us with a futuristic short story about human interaction. The issue also features a short story on the future of advertising written by Garry T. Morse, author of Transversals for Orpheus & the untitled 1-13 (LINEbooks), and an interview with The Thin White Line, a group of filmmakers and artists who biked from BC to Central America in the name of art.
Issue #3: Tendencies	The theme: Gender. This issue features a short story from Mette Bach (regular columnist for The Vancouver Review) about pink bicycles and the tomboy next door. Also, Sean Wilson assigns an anthropology assignment about male violence, we share an email correspondence with Jason Forrest (the founder of the record label Cock Rock Disco), and at the heart of the issue is ten pages of intricate poetry by Danielle LaFrance. In addition, local up-and-coming writer McKinley M. Hellenes (Journey Prize Anthology) submits four pages of prose, Jonathan Sherman reviews Chris Robinson's Stole This from a Hockey Card, and Karen Sung lists her top five favourite picks from the most recent Vancouver International Film Festival.
Issue #2: Lip Service	This issue features a powerful long poem by Andrew Lee of In Medias Res; prose by Jim Knipfel, author of Slackjaw and former columnist for the New York Press; four poems by local heavyweight poet Matt Rader, author of Miraculous Hours; an exclusive European rendezvous with the rapidly growing band You Say Party! We Say Die!; and two analyses of the media: Amanda Ching-men Lee is caught in war-torn Lebanon and contrasts her personal experiences with the media's coverage. Also, Erin Millar, head of the Canadian University Press Association, expresses concerns about current child pornography laws and the media's hype surrounding the JonBenet Ramsey case.
Issue #1: Blindspots	This issue features the art and photography of Megan Hepburn, Erik Lyone, and Karen Sung. Ryan Flowers of In Medias Res goes on a vigilante mission to meet his hero. Undine Thompson discusses removing a massive cotton blindfold. Carmen Papalia guides us through a Halloween freakshow and explores the classification of the disabled. Also, we see the beginnings of Thor Polukoshko's comic, "Cereal Junkies".