THE LIAR
The Liar is an independent annual literary zine published by Capilano University in Vancouver, BC. Since the 1980’s, The Liar has featured work from emerging and international authors such as Margaret Atwood, Charles Bukowski, Anne Stone and R. Scott Bakker.
2022-2023 CONTEST WINNERs
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022-2023 writing and design contest: Mimi Toma and Talel McBriar
Mimi Toma
Mimi Toma is of Assyrian heritage and is an admirer of her mom’s Middle Eastern recipes. Mimi currently studies in the Legal Administrative Assistant program at Capilano University and is a recent graduate of the Acting for Stage and Screen Diploma at Capilano University. She is currently a lifeguard and swim instructor and plans to direct her attention to writing and acting following her graduation. Mimi uses writing as an outlet to translate her personal experiences in a form that people can connect to in their own way as they read. Her poem, “Routine” is inspired by her mother who raised both Mimi and her younger sister on her own despite having her own health issues and no support system in her life.
2023 WRITING CONTEST WINNER – ROUTINE by Mimi Toma
ROUTINE By Mimi Toma With the strand of hair hanging from my mouth, holding onto the piece of bread I just chewed. I think of when mother would wrap her hair in a scarf each morning. Still, her red velvet hair would always make it into my greek salad....
Talel McBriar
Talel McBriar is a multimedia artist who uses visual art and music as creative expression. A self-taught painter, Talel primarily finds interest in painting human crowds and figures with acrylic paint. Painted during the beginning of the pandemic, this artwork reflects on being on a subway in New York City and represents the appreciation and nostalgia of being in a crowd, surrounded by others.
2021-2022 WRITING CONTEST WINNER
The winners of the writing contest held in 2021-2022 have been decided
Megan Vaghy
Megan spent much of her childhood moving internationally, armed with a suitcase, a notebook, and a wild imagination. Writing got her through the doldrums of airport layovers and the endless slog of long-haul flights, back in the dark ages when we all had to watch the same movie on the same aisle-mounted screens. These days, she’s a mostly stay-at-home mum, a part-time sales associate at a specialty wine shop, and champion Cap U ABE math procrastinator. Megan is also a former flight attendant, with a Diploma of Wine (it’s a real thing—not just code for ‘heavy drinker’), and she’s upgrading courses so she can go to nursing school. Her dream is to one day have a fold-out business card that contains a series of totally unrelated credentials.
Honorable mentions – “She Sat in Velvet Sadness” by Toni Dumais
She sat in velvet sadness by Toni Dumais She sat in velvet sadness, comforted and persistent to lay basked in the dark layers of righteous melancholy, where she undresses her deformity to be splayed out, and picked through. This is wrong, that is wrong. What is...
2021-2022 DESIGN CONTEST WINNER
The results of our design contest held in 2021-2022 have been decided
CELINA ZHONG
‘Escape’
Celina Zhong is a second year IDEA student studying graphic design and illustration. Her illustration for The Liar stems from surrealism and the concept of escaping the mundane nature of reality.
Feel free to visit her Instagram @celinaa.jpg
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The Liar, is an independent annual literary zine
published and edited by students.
Since the 1980s, the Liar has featured work from emerging and international authors such as Margaret Atwood, Charles Bukowski, Juliane Okot Bitek, among others
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