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Canadian Literary Short Fiction Markets (F-M)

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)

monday markets, short stories, writers' markets, writing

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)

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Monday Markets: Upcoming Writing Contests and Calls for Submission

Looking for somewhere to submit your work? Fishing for a topic for your next story? Here are a few suggestions and opportunities coming up in September and October 2015. For Teachers and Students: The Ocean Trash Write-Away Short Fiction Contest: Writers under 25 are invited to envision solutions to the problem of ocean trash for… Continue reading Monday Markets: Upcoming Writing Contests and Calls for Submission

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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

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Quebec Writing Competition

If you are a writer in Quebec, you have about ten days left to submit your short prose masterpiece to this year's Quebec Writing Competition, brought to you by the CBC and its exceptional provincial partners. (It's like the regular CBC short story competition, but just for Quebec writers. And if you think it's unfair that Quebec… Continue reading Quebec Writing Competition