About
We are a newly founded critical magazine featuring short and long-form writing in non-fiction and fiction, criticism, and visual arts. Based in Toronto, Ontario we are small but growing volunteer-run group of young and emerging writers, artists, editors, and designers.
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.
Get involved
If you are interested in joining The Vermin team as a volunteer, we review applications at this link on a rolling basis
https://forms.gle/wC4Kzv4RmYnvvW3t9
Editorial team
Editor-in-Chief
Nazanin Zarepour
Associate Editors
Mohamed Serageldin
Saara Frank
Production Editor
Sarah Sarofim
Copy Editors
Joy Xiang
Vidhya Elango
Nadine Violette
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.
Visuals team
Designer
Fahdad Atin
Designer
Monica Chung
Creative consultant
Nima Esmailpour