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Literary Magazines Canada Collective
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LMCC is a collective organization run by magazine editors and staff. We work to highlight the vital role of literary magazines in the publishing landscape. https://litmags.ca/
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Literary Magazines Canada Collective @litmagscan.bsky.social · Dec 2
‪Do you work with a #literarymagazine #publishing in Canada? Launching a new #litmag? Recently closed & want to share your story? We're a new organization that supports all #litmags at all stages. We meet via Slack and monthly online. Baseline sector survey underway! Contact us via the website.
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Find your next great reads at the Wild Writers Literary Festival from November 7th to 9th, where you’ll leave with an armful of great books and an even longer TBR list!
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Celebrate The Fiddlehead’s newest issue with a virtual launch!

Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter!

Nov. 19, 7pm AST

Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link!
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Why are you just sitting on that coral-ated umbrella?!

Submit your art-that-replies-to-other-art for issue 2.3!

Extended deadline: November 14. longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Wolfgang Paalen's 𝑁𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑒́ 𝐼𝐼, 1940)
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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And #litmags are where it all starts for literary arts and culture. tinyurl.tools/981c4596
Canada’s arts and culture sector contributed $65 billion in GDP, new report finds
The study from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce found the industry is growing faster than oil and gas, manufacturing and agriculture.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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We need your voice now to support arts and culture in Canada!

Please send a letter through our campaign. We need all who care about culture - business leaders, students, artists, audiences, everyone - to submit a letter before Sept 15. canadianartscoalition.com/campaign-for-culture-2025/
August 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Post #3 summarizing our survey of #literarymagazines in Canada. We found that while litmags contribute significantly to writers & literary publishing, they are working with very limited resources. The large majority in our survey have no full-time paid staff. Read the full report: litmags.ca/survey/
Yellow background, black and pink text: "We found that litmags are doing this work with very limited resources. The large majority of litmags have no full-time paid staff." A pie chart shows that 75.6% of litmags report zero full-time staff.
July 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Post #2 highlighting results of our survey. #Litmags are a significant contribution to writing communities and the publishing industry in Canada. We estimate that litmags publish 3,000 to 4,000 authors/yr & pay $250,000 to $500,000 in contributor fees. See full report at litmags.ca
Yellow background with black and pink text: We estimate that litmags collectively publish 3,000 to 4,000 authors per year and pay $250,000 to $500,000 in contributor fees to those authors.
July 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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How do #litmags in Canada operate? How to they support writers & publishers? What challenges do they face? We asked these questions and more in our survey. Full results are here: litmags.ca/survey/. #publishing #literary #canada
Yellow background. Text says" We found that litmags are the foundation of literary publishing. Literary magazines are essential in helping new writers become professional writers."
July 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Hello, artists living in canada! Do you make literary, visual, audio, or video art that responds to other artworks? Great! Let's hang out at longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Lola Liivat's 𝐴 𝑙𝑎 𝐾𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑘𝑦, 1960)
July 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] : forty-sixth issue, / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ;
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Touch the Donkey : forty-sixth issue,
The forty-sixth issue is now available, with new poems by Kirstin Allio, Kemeny Babineau, Joseph Donato, Beatriz Hausner, Matthew Walsh, N...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Our 2025 Fiction Contest is now open for submissions! This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.

Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...

#callforauthors #submissionsopen #canlit #fiction #callforfiction #litmag
A purple graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Fiction Contest. From top to bottom the graphic says: Spin the tale only you can tell. Enter our 2025 Fiction Contest. Deadline September 2, 2025! Enter via Submittable. Judged by Anuja Varghese. $2000 Prize plus publication. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/contest/fiction or email fiddlehd@unb.ca. In the background is a picture of loop of purple rope and in the lower right corner is a picture of Anuja Varghese.
June 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Get your manuscripts ready for the third annual Pinhole Poetry chapbook search. Guidelines up now on our website! Read them here:
pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-con...
July 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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LMCC has a new #writingcontest page! Check our site for 2025 contests run by #litmags in Canada. Contact us to add your magazine's details. litmags.ca/contests/
June 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Touch the Donkey supplement #277 : seven questions for Dominic Dulin
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TtD supplement #277 : seven questions for Dominic Dulin
Dominic Dulin is a poet and musician out of Cleveland, Ohio. They have had poetry published by Iterant , Yum! Lit , Surreal Poetics , amon...
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May 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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We're looking for a New Poetry Editor! You'll be working closely with a passionate editorial team to curate and edit three issues per year. Applications will be accepted until August 1, 2025, or until the position is filled. Apply today to become Arc's next Poetry Editor! buff.ly/1E4uhN5
May 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Resuming our profiles of LMCC members! Next up: The New Quarterly. "TNQ is dedicated to nurturing emerging Canadian writers by carefully engaging with their work, which we publish alongside the work of established Canadian writers." @thenewquarterly.bsky.social litmags.ca/directory/
The New Quarterly logo. "The New Quarterly" in lower case serif font. Black text except "new" in red. Below, "Canadian Writers and Writing" in black uppercase sans serif font.
May 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Observed in the wilds of our literary landscape! An LMCC badge on the @arcpoetry.bsky.social website! Find more LMCC members in our directory: litmags.ca/directory/
Screenshot from Arc Poetry's website showing a round, gold badge with the text "Literary Magazines Canada Collective. Active member since 2023." The screenshot also includes a photo of print copies of the magazine and the text "Subscribe to Arc" and a small purple rectangle with the text "Listen to your poetry."
May 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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What does it mean for a book to be fully Canadian-made? LPG publishers are committed to keeping Canadian stories, talent, and production close to home, checking all the boxes.
A graphic with text reading "Shopping for Canadian-Made Books? Check out this list of Canadian-owned presses" at the top with a list of 66 members of the Literary Press Group. There is a checkbox near the top outlining what makes a book entirely Canadian-made: Canadian publisher, Canadian author, designed and printed in Canada, and warehoused and distributed in Canada.
April 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Last day to take advantage of our spring subscription sale! $10 off your subscription to PF!

prairiefire.ca/subscribe/
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March 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Spring Story Savings 🌷 - mailchi.mp/65af4083600a... Get free shipping anywhere within Canada until April 28th when you order from the PL bookshop!

#pulpmystery #mysterywriting #mysterystories #poetrycontest #canadianlitmag #literarymagazine #dealsonbooks
March 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Stay up to date with the latest literary voices and styles this spring season by reading 10 Canadian short stories published in 2025 (so far): tnq.ca/10-canadian-...
March 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🐦*Cheep Cheep* 🐦 Just a reminder that subscription prices are $10 off until March 31st! (Including renewals!)
www.prairiefire.ca/subscribe/
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March 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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We're emerging from our slumber & open for submissions! Our eternal theme remains—art about art—but Vol 2 will publish only writers/artists living in canada. Creative nonfiction is now welcome. Submit by Apr 30: longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 John Macallan Swan's Studies of a Recumbent Polar Bear, 1903)
March 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Read an excerpt of Cheryl Skory Suma‘s winning story ‘The Art of Tear Eating and Other Non-predatory Behaviours’ here, and find the rest in Issue 45, Winter 2025.

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#bookworm #bookish #booknerd #newfiction #shortstory #shortfiction
'The Art of Tear Eating and Other Non-predatory Behaviours' by Cheryl Skory Suma - PULP Literature
Survival Instincts From Pulp Literature Issue 45, we are thrilled to present the winner of the 2024 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize, now in print! Read an [...]
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March 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Bobbie Jean Huff's "Madonna Lilies", from our latest Issue 173! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/madonn...
March 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM