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Grain Magazine

PO Box 67

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  S7K 3K1

Phone: (306) 244-2828

E-mail: grainmag <at> sasktel <dot> net

Web: grainmagazine.ca

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/1 – 5/31. Manuscripts postmarked and/or received between June 1st and August 31st will not be read. Response time: 3-6 months Payment: $50/page (to a max. of $225) + 2 copies Contests: yes ISSN: 1491-0497 Founded: 1973 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Magazines Canada Copy price: $9.95 (Cdn) Average pages: 120 Sample price (postpaid): $13 (Cdn), $16 (US) Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $30 (Cdn), $40 (US), $50 (foreign) Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $37 (Cdn)

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!). Editor: Sylvia Legris. Fiction Editor: Terry Jordan. With periodic guest editors. 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:

TROPHY, Winter 2010 - Grain’s Winter 2010 issue, TROPHY, features the winners of Grain’s 21st Annual Writing Contest, judged by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen (Poetry) and Elise Levine (Fiction). Includes 1st and 2nd Prize fiction and poetry winners Matthew Heiti, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Danny Jacobs, and Medrie Purdham. TROPHY also features the provocative images of artist Lee Henderson, with new fiction by Segun Afolabi, and Zsuzsi Gartner and new poetry by Ronna Bloom, Jonathan Ball, Concetta Principe, Paul William Zits.

Conversation, Fall 2009 - Every component of the collective conversation in Grain's Fall issue (37.1) possesses a singular poise and beauty. In concert, a mobile image of balance. This issue features the gorgeous artwork of Beijing artist Jiang Jie, a translation of a long poem by Beijing poet Xi Chuan, poetry in translation by Wang Jiaxin, and new work by Sue Goyette, Steven Hayward, Tim Lilburn, Eleanor Wachtel, Don Domanski, Chuqiao Yang, Warren Heiti, Dani Couture, Myrna Kostash, and more.

luddite, Summer 2009 - Grain luddite is a celebration (cue the kazoos!) of the desire to make art or writing using methods and materials that are lower-tech and messier, with a process that happens in real time, under available light. Includes stunning artwork by Sonya Adams, poetry translations by Griffin Prize nominee Jeramy Dodds, non-fiction by filmmaker Guy Maddin, poet Betsy Warland, and cultural critic Jeanne Randolph, artist Tamara Bond's Illustrated Horoscopes, new poetry, new fiction, puzzles and more!