Interview with Charlie Zacks

Charlie Zacks is the founder and editor of Stimulant magazine. His fiction and poetry have been published by Spectra Poets and Expat Press, and have also appeared in Soft Union and Charm School. A recent graduate of McGill University, Charlie is now an incoming master’s student at Harvard Divinity School. Scrivener spoke with Charlie in July 2025 to discuss literary life in Montreal, Can Lit, “Alt Lit 2.0,” and those contemporary writers of whom he can’t get enough.