The journal publishes literary discussions, interviews with writers, reviews of new publications (creative and scholarly), and poetry and prose by Caribbean writers.

Initiated in 2010, sx salon appears three times per year (February, June, and October). Winner of the 2017 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, David Chariandys Brother is his intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, and tightly constructed. As a forum, sx salon aims to stimulate these sensibilities and preoccupations across different literary genres. Chariandy’s Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice. Brother should cement his place as a literary contender on Canada’s main literary stage. Caribbean creative writing has always wrestled with the idea of an aesthetic form that engages regional and diasporic understandings of our changing realities. Chariandy has been nominated for major literary awards for his previous (and debut) novel Soucouyant. Sx salon: a small axe literary platform is a digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature, broadly defined. To discuss the various dimensions of Chariandy’s novel, sx salon has gathered several voices from Canada and the Caribbean to explore the intricacies of homosocial and diasporic spaces, linearity, and the lines between nostalgia, sentiment, and survival. (Introduction)

Brother has received many awards and accolades, such as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Toronto Book Award. Issue 30 of sx salon is dedicated to David Chariandy’s second novel, Brother (2017).