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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: All year Response time: Poetry: up to 4 months; fiction up to 10 months; creative nonfiction: up to 6 months Payment: $20 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 "The Green Imagination," an environmentally-themed issue, published January 2009.
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:
169, Winter 2009, issue features the winner of our 2009 Creative Non-fiction contest, Judy Copeland’s piece, “Where Sea Meets Sky.” It poignantly captures her longing for “emptiness” during her childhood in post-war Japan. The issue includes short stories by Bill Gaston, Brett Josef Grubisic, and Anna Smith, as well as poetry by Jan Zwicky, George Elliott Clarke, Daryl Hine and many more.
168, Fall 2009, issue features Eliza Robertson, winner of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction. Also included is fiction by Devon Code and Jackie Gay; poetry by Jessica Michalofsky, Gwendolyn Jensen, Sam Cheuk, Jeffery Donaldson, Rachel Rose, and Priscilla Uppal; creative nonfiction by Stuart Freibert; and cover art by Luis Merino. Reviews of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction round out this issue.
167, Summer 2009, issue of The Malahat Review features the winners of our 2009 Long Poem Prize, Marion Quednau’s “Paradise, Later Years,” and matt robinson’s “Against the Hard Angle.” We also have a Carveresque piece of short fiction by Randy DeVita, and a story of family ties, ambitions, and misplaced grief by Stephen Henighan. There is creative non-fiction by Elizabeth Haynes and Jane Finlayson, and poetry by P. K. Page, Barry Butson, Anne Compton, and more.