ABOUT
The Vermin is a critical experimental magazine for the underbelly offering a platform for the subversive and peripheral. Based in Toronto, Ontario, we are small but growing volunteer-run group of young and emerging writers, artists, editors, and designers. We feature short and long-form writing in non-fiction and fiction, criticism, and visual arts.Our vision is to create an anti-capitalist genre-bending magazine which platforms the filthier aspects of our lives often hidden from plain view. No subject is off limits, and we aim to encourage a pluralism in literature that actively confronts – and rejects – the delusions of our aesthetic sanitation.
All profits of The Vermin go back into the production cost of the magazine.
PACBI
In solidarity with the people of Palestine, The Vermin is proud to commit to the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), initiated in 2004 inspired by the cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa.By endorsing PACBI, we commit to the boycott of:
1. Israeli cultural institutions
2. Cultural products commissioned by an official Israeli body or a non-Israeli body that promotes Israel
3. Events and activities sponsored by an official Israeli body or a complicit institution
4. Normalization Projects
To learn more about PACBI, please click here.
EDITORIAL TEAM
Editor-in-ChiefNazanin Zarepour
Associate Editors
Mohamed Serageldin
Saara Frank
Poetry Editor
Jessie Krahn
Copy Editors
Joy Xiang
Vidhya Elango
Nadine Violette
Andrew Donnelly
Kinza Zafar
Production Editor
Sarah Sarofim
Editorial advisor
Issra Marie Martin
VISUALS TEAM
DesignersFahdad Atin
Monica Chung
Social media co-ordinator
Divine Angubua
Creative advisor
Nima Esmailpour
Event programmers
Ajith Thangavelautham
Bhavika Sharma