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The Malahat Review
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700, Stn. CSC
Victoria, BC Canada V8W 2Y2
Phone: (250) 721-8524
Email: malahat[at]uvic[dot]ca
Web: www.malahatreview.ca
Simultaneous submissions: discouraged Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: Poetry: up to 4 months; fiction up to 10 months; creative nonfiction: up to 6 months Payment: $30 CAD/printed page, plus 2 copies and one-year complimentary subscription Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0025-1216 Founded: 1967 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Magazines Canada Copy price: $11.95 Average pages: 112 Sample price (postpaid): $16.45 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $40 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $54
Publisher’s description: The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. On occasion it also publishes interviews, essays and issues on a single theme or author, such as "Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, and Aesthetic Kinship," published April 2010.
The Malahat Review is dedicated to excellence in writing. Its aim is to discover the most promising of the new writers and to publish their work alongside the best established writers, to present work accurately and attractively to readers, and to increase awareness of Canadian writing in general through perceptive critical comment. The magazine sponsors a Long Poem Contest and a Novella Contest, held in alternating years, the Far Horizons contest (poetry and fiction in alternating years) for emerging writers, the Creative Non-Fiction contest, and the Open Season Awards for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Please see our website for details on all contests and for general submission guidelines.
Recent issues:
The winter 2011 issue of The Malahat Review contains a number of works that are, rather serendipitously, about men and/or the male psyche. It includes short fiction by Larry Brown, Trevor Corkum, Kevin Hardcastle, and Robin McLean; the winner of our 2011 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, Anne Marie Todkill's "Hoarding"; poetry by Michael Crummey, Florencia Varela, Adam Sol, Ruth Roach Pierson, and more as well as reviews of new Canadian fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
#176 features the winner of the 2011 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction Zoey Peterson. Also, poetry by Craig Poile, Bren Simmers, Allison Lasorda, Marcus McCann, Gary Allen, Rhona McAdam, Tom Wayman, Marilyn Bowering, Rebecca Geleyn, Richard Osler, Sharon McCartney, Danny Jacobs, Samantha Sternberg; fiction by Daniel Karasik, Matt Rader, and Dan Mancilla; nonfiction by Hadley Carpenter; and reviews.
In our summer 2011 issue, enjoy the wonderful winning entries of the 2011 Long Poem Prize by Toronto’s Julie Joosten and New York’s Maggie Schwed. Fiction by Dee Hobsbawn Smith, Andrea Routley, and John Flieger and creative nonfiction by Kevin Leenders explore a near-death experience, the recovery of bodies from accident sites, the ups and downs of a family forced living in a campground, and a child’s love for her guinea pig. A fine selection of poetry as well as thoughtful reviews of current Canadian books flesh out a characteristically good issue.