About Eris
What the fuck are we doing?
“Discordia… is funny and candid and quite abrasive, a laxative for the increasingly clenched asshole of CanLit. ”—Bardia Sinaee, Editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2024
“The emperor’s new critics. ”—Rishi Janakiraman, North Carolina Youth Poet Laureate ‘25
“Incredibly off-base. ”—Carl Wilson, Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste
Discordia is a secessionist collective against the tepid mainstream literary scene, pissing on the mind-numbing mediocrity of focus-grouped MFA arts and literature, the cynical employment of bourgeois identity rhetoric, and instead championing outsider, combative, and DIY ethos. We reject the staid academic, the post-ironic faux-transgressive reactionary, the censorious killjoy, the profit-driven publishing leech, and the twee hipster douchebags of yesteryear.