Continuing on last week's blog, here are another 10+ excellent Canadian literary journals that short story writers can submit to. The Feathertale Revew (Ottawa, Ontario) A humour magazine that publishes hip literary and entertaining work from Canadian writers. 2 issues/year (print and online). Since 2008. Considers fiction up to 2,500 words, plus poetry, sketches and… Continue reading Canadian Literary Short Fiction Markets (F-M)
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Canadian Literary Short Fiction Markets (A-E)
I wrote short stories in my youth and published a dozen in Canadian literary journals--long defunct ones like Writ and Quarry, and still-going-strong ones like The Windsor Review and The New Quarterly (it really was a new quarterly back then). Though I've kept up with reading lit mags all my life, I only recently resumed… Continue reading Canadian Literary Short Fiction Markets (A-E)
Friday Fable: The Novelist and the Literary Journal that Paid $30
You may know the old story, "The Angler and the Little Fish:" An angler spent all morning casting and reeling in the hot sun, dreaming about the bucketload of trout and walleye he might catch, how delicious they'd taste fried in butter, how his wife would welcome him home with kisses, how his neighbours would gossip about his… Continue reading Friday Fable: The Novelist and the Literary Journal that Paid $30
Friday Fable: The Writer and the Word Limit
You may have heard the old story, The Crow and the Pitcher: A crow was nearly dead of thirst when he spied a pitcher of water on a picnic table just beside the dried-up river bed. He flew over and tried to take a sip but, alas, the pitcher was close to empty. Only an inch… Continue reading Friday Fable: The Writer and the Word Limit
Cordelia’s Valentine, part of “Shakespeare High”
Check out my modern take on the Lear family in "Cordelia's Valentine," part of a new series of original short fiction by Canadian young adult authors published on the CBC Canada Writes website this month, in honour of Shakespeare's 450th birthday. Here's the shortlink direct to "Cordelia's Valentine." But be sure to browse around the full cast… Continue reading Cordelia’s Valentine, part of “Shakespeare High”
