Literary Journals and Submission Info

Review Writing

A great way to get involved in the literary community is to write reviews.

Review Writing Tips

• How-to Review: Starting Out & Pro Tips from Carleigh Baker, Prism International

Examples of Reviews

• Ampersand Review - Bulletin Board Reviews

• Bookforum

• The Rumpus

Submission Tips

• Publishing 101 - Ready to publish your first book? Here's how to find a publisher, CBC, Interview with Leah Nash

Where to Find Calls for Submissions

Literary Calls

• 50 Canadian Literary Magazines That Pay Writers

• Aerogramme Writers’ Studio - publishes news and resources for both emerging and established writers

• CBC Guide to Canadian Literary Journals and Magazines Open to Submission

• Entropy Magazine, Where to Submit - a monthly list of journal, magazine, chapbook, and book calls for submission

• New Pages, List of International literary journals and calls for submission

• Places for Writers, List of Canadian journals and calls

For Film and Screenwriting

• Cold Reading Series Vancouver - Ongoing call

• Experimental Cinema - Calls for Submissions

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On Rejection

• Coping with Rejection, BBC Writer's Room

• Rejection Is an Enormous Part of a Writer’s Life, The Cut

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Literary Journals

This is a list I've put together of journals that I like.

• ​Ambos - Quebec Literature in Translation

• Arc Poetry Magazine​

• At Length Magazine

• Augur Magazine

• Black Canadian Poetry​

• Burnside Review

• Canadian Literature

• Canthius: Feminism & Literary Arts

• Cartridgelit  ​

• Cheap Pop (micro fiction)

• Cosmonauts Avenue

• Diagram

• Diode Poetry

• Electric Literature 

• Entropy

• Ex-Puritan

• Event Magazine

• Fence

• Geist 

• Grain

• Gulf Coast

• Hobort Pulp

• Indigest Magazine

• Joyland 

• Juniper Poetry

• Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion

• Maisonneuve

• New Poetry

• McSweeney's 

• oteh nîkân

• Pitukena

• Plenitude

• Poetry Magazine

• Prism International

• Qwerty

• Room Magazine

• SmokeLong Quarterly (flash)

• South Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Literature, Arts, and Culture

• Split Lip Magazine

• Terrain (environmental)​

• The Antigonish Review

• The Black Warrior Review​

• The Capilano Review

• The Fiddlehead

• The Nasiona (nonfiction)

• The New Quarterly

• The Rumpus

• The Rusty Toque (2011-2017 - Archive online)

• The White Review 

• This Magazine​

• Touch the Donkey

• Vol. 1 Brooklyn 

Speculative, Horror, Fantasy Fiction Journals

• Apex magazine

• Augur Magazine

• Asimovs

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Clarkesworld magazine

• Diabolical Plots

• Heartlines Spec

• Light speed

• Nightmare

• Psychopomp

• Uncanny Magazine

• Strange Horizons Magazine

• The Dark

• The Deadlands

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Flash Fiction Journals

• 100-word story

• Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction

• Electric Literature: The Commuter

• Flash Fiction Magazine

• Fiction Southeast

• River Teeth Journal

• Smokelong Quarterly

• The Art of Flash Fiction by Kathy Fish (free newsletter)

• The New Yorker Flash Fiction

• The Vestal Review

• Tri-Quarterly 

Residencies

Excellent article on writing residences by

Rebecca Makkai

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Write Away (and I mean AWAY)

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