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 a volunteer-run collective of young and emerging writers, artists, editors, and designers. Founded in 2022, our vision is to create an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist 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
EDITORIAL TEAM
Editor-in-ChiefNazanin Zarepour
Associate Editor
Saara Frank
Poetry Editor
Jessie Krahn
Editor
Mohamed Serageldin
Copy Editors
Joy Xiang
Vidhya Elango
Andrew Donnelly
Kinza Zafar
Issra Marie Martin
Distributors
Nadine Violette
Kristine White
VISUALS TEAM
DesignersMonica Chung
Fahdad Atin
Social Media Managers
Myka Jaymalin
Daniel Rotsztain
Proofreader
Sarah Sarofim
A NOTE ON THE MASTHEAD
Mastheads are often a limited, incomprehensive format that can conceal the tireless and invisible labour that makes a publication possible. As a collective, all members of The Vermin often wear a number of hats, ranging from administrative work, to communications, inventory, heavy lifting, visioning, and more. The Vermin is only possible through our collective efforts that reach far beyond our designated titles.