Maisonneuve editor-in-chief Nour Abi-Nakhoul, who began as associate editor on the Spring 2023 issue and has been EIC since Spring 2024, will be moving on from the magazine after wrapping the Summer 2025 issue. She will travel to Shanghai, China for an artist residency to complete her second novel. “It has been an immense pleasure, and an honour, to have the opportunity to work with so many incredible writers throughout my stint at Maisy, and to etch my name into the history of a magazine so singular and necessary in the field of Canadian media,” says Abi-Nakhoul. “Thank you especially to publisher Jennifer Varkonyi and former editor-in-chief Lucy Uprichard for trusting me to steer this magazine.” 

Starting with the Fall 2025 issue, Rosie Long Decter will be taking over from Abi-Nakhoul as editor-in-chief. Long Decter wrote Maisonneuve’s Music Room column from 2020–2024, and is a writer and musician based in Montreal. She previously covered music news at Billboard Canada. Her work has also appeared in This, Toronto Life, Xtra, Reader's Digest, the Grind, the New Quarterly, In the Mood and elsewhere. “I’m thrilled to return to Maisonneuve,” Long Decter says. “I got my start in media as an intern at Maisy in 2018, inspired by the magazine’s blend of sharp reporting and critical analysis. Maisy is a local institution and national gem and I can’t wait to dig in.”