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Grain Magazine

Publisher's Description: Grain Magazine, a literary quarterly, publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Published by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Grain has earned national and international recognition for its distinctive content. No bias in terms of form, style, or genre, and the editors welcome submissions that are diverse, idiosyncratic, intelligent, even idea- or concept-driven. The editors want to be surprised! Submissions of creative/literary nonfiction also welcome (Intellectual or Theoretical, yes! Academic, no!). Submissions and correspondence: Grain Magazine, PO Box 67, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 3K1. Email: grainmag@sasktel.net Website: grainmagazine.ca Ph: 306-244-2828.

Recent issues:

“Hits” (39.2) comes out swinging, its opening lines, “What words could possibly change the way a person looks at the world, looks at themselves, at everything?”—Joe Davies in “Dead Already and Dead Again.” These works hit you in the heart, make you catch your breath, and give you something more than paper cuts. It features poetry and prose written with the “manual bloodwriter” of Tim Bowling’s poem “Getting Wilder,” one of the prize-winning pieces of the 2011 Short Grain Writing Contest, judged by Jeramy Dodds and Zsuzsi Gartner. Artwork by the exceptional and talented Tammy Lu.

Imposter, Grain’s Fall 2011 issue teases you into considering what it takes to be, or become, an imposter. How much can you change before you lose yourself? Themes of selfhood, sanity, and maturity emerge in evocative poetry by Gerard Beirne, Alisa Gordaneer, and Brecken Hancock, and in mesmerizing fiction by Nancy Jo Cullen, Matthew Harris, David Milne, Eliza Robertson, and Laura Trunkey. The daring art of Cate Francis masks and unmasks her subjects, masks and unmasks the imposters within.

Truths and Lies, Grain’s Summer 2011 issue, distorts the lines between fib and fact, fabricated and actual, between poetic truth-stretching and documentary confabulation. Lindsay Cuff’s essay “Two Truths and a Lie” sets a provocative tone for the issue, the rest of which is brilliant poetry all the way, including stunning sequences by Rachel Lebowitz, Méira Cook, Gary Barwin, Kim Trainor, Susan Andrews Grace, and Moez Surani, plus another installment of Jonathan Ball’s Haiku Horoscopes. Features the spectacular artwork of Ray Fenwick—in truth, gorgeous!