A guide to Canadian literary magazines and journals open to submissions
CBC Books has compiled a list of Canadian print and online magazines and journals. Information is subject to change — so check the publications' websites for updated guidelines before you submit. (Want your publication added? Email us at [email protected].)
If you're looking to submit your work somewhere, you can also consider the CBC Literary Prizes. The 2025 CBC Short Story Prize is open between Sept. 1, 2024 and Nov. 1, 2024 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
You can submit original, unpublished fiction that is up to 2,500 words, as long as it has not been previously published. There is no minimum word requirement.
Acta Victoriana
Accepts: Poetry and short fiction
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Current honorarium for works selected for publication is $20
AE Science Fiction
Accepts: Fiction, reviews, visual art
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $0.10 per word (minimum of $20 for very short tales), $50-$300 per illustration
Agnes and True
Accepts: Fiction
Submission period: Year round
The Antigonish Review
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $50 plus two copies
antilang. Magazine
Accepts: poetry, short/flash fiction, creative nonfiction, comics and collaborations across media
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Arc Poetry Magazine
Accepts: Poetry, pitches for reviews and essays are also accepted
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: April-July; Sept.-Dec.
Payment: $50 per page, one copy of the issue
Augur Magazine
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, comics
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: See dates
Payment: $0.06 cents per word for fiction, $60 for flash fiction, $40 for poems, $50 per page for comics
Backrooms Review
Accepts: Poetry, nonfiction, audio / visual
Issues per year: 6
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $25
Blank Spaces
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, art, photo essay
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Brick
Accepts: Literary nonfiction
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: See dates
Payment: $55–660, plus two contributor copies and a one-year subscription
Canadian Literature
Accepts: Poetry, reviews
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Honorarium for poetry
Canadian Notes & Queries
Accepts: Nonfiction
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Canthius
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $5 per page, one copy of the issue
The Capilano Review
Accepts: Poetry
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: See dates
Payment: $50 per published page to a maximum of $150
The Carousel
Accepts: Fiction, poetry
Issues per year: 2
Submission Period: January and September (see dates)
Payment: $55 for 1-4 pages, $100 for five or more pages, a two-issue subscription which includes the copy with the submitted work
Carte Blanche
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Spring and Fall
Payment: Honorarium per submission
Choa
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art
Issues per year: 1
Submission period: Spring
Payment: Honorarium per submission
Cloud Lake Literary
Accepts: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, children's literature and visual art
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $50 per page to a maximum of $150 for fiction, creative nonfiction, children's literature and poetry upon publication. $50 per submission for visual art
Contemporary Verse 2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing (CV2)
Accepts: Poetry, nonfiction, interviews, reviews
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Sept. 1 through May 31
Payment: $30 per poem, $50-$100 for interviews and articles, $40-$150 for essays, $40-$80 for reviews, two copies of the issue
Counterflow Magazine
Accepts: Poetry, Short Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, and Visual Arts
Issues per year: 1
Submission period: October 1 through December 31
The Dalhousie Review
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Two copies of the issue
Dreamers Creative Writing
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, autofiction, poetry, book reviews
Issues per year: 2
Submission Period: Year-round
Payment: $20 honorarium, two copies of the issue
Event
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction
Issues per year: 3
Submission periods: August to September, December to January
Payment: $35 per page ($40 for poetry), up to $500
Exile
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, drama, visual art
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: 5¢ per word, one copy of the issue
Existere
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, visual art
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Honorarium, one copy of the issue
The Feathertale Review
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, cartoons
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Payment if submission is published in print
Femke Magazine
Accepts: Essays, reviews, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, illustrations, comics
Issues per year: Online (1 annual print edition)
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $0.06 cents per word, $40 for poems, $50 per page for comics, $25-$200 for illustrations
The Fiddlehead
Accepts: Fiction, poetry
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $60 per published page, two copies of the issue
filling station
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $25 honorarium, complimentary 3-issue subscription, discount on future renewals and subscriptions
Freefall Magazine
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, art
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: See dates
Payment: $10 per page to a maximum of $100, one copy of the issue
Funicular Magazine
Accepts: Fiction, poetry
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Yes
Fusion Fragment
Accepts: Fiction
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Yes
Geist
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issue per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Grain
Accepts: Fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Sept. 1 to May 31
Payment: $50 per page to a maximum of $250, two copies of the issue
Grey Ghost Review
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, plays, reviews, visual art
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
The Hart House Review
Accepts: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art
Issues per year: 1
Submission period: Fall
Hamilton Arts & Letters
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Spring and fall
Payment: Honorarium
Hamilton Review of Books
Accepts: Reviews, essays, interviews
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $50 per review, $75 per essay or interview
Hazlitt
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction
Issues per year: Online (1 annual print edition)
Submission period: See dates
Hermine
Accepts: Short fiction
Issues per year: 1
Submission period: See dates
Payment: $50 to $200 per story, two copies of the issue
Humber Literary Review
Accepts: Fiction, personal essays, poetry, visual art
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: See dates
Payment: $100, two copies of the issue
The Impressment Gang
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: See dates
Payment: $25, two copies of the issue
Into the Void
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Juniper
Accepts: Poetry
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: The first week of January, May and September
Literary Review of Canada
Accepts: Poetry, nonfiction, reviews
Issues per year: 10
Submission period: Year round
long con magazine
Accepts: Poetry (3 to 5 pages), fiction (3 to 10 pages, single-spaced), and translation submissions should be unpublished in print or online. Do not publish essays, reviews, or creative non-fiction.
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
The Mackinac
Accepts: Poetry
Issues per year: 3-4
Submission period: Year round
MacroMicroCosm Literary & Art Journal
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
The Malahat Review
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $65 per published page, one-year subscription
The Maynard
Accepts: Poetry
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Winter and summer
Minola Review
Accepts: Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $20 per published piece
The Montreal Review
Accepts: Nonfiction, book reviews
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Montreal Writes
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and photography
Issues per year: 12 (monthly)
Submission period: Year round
The Nashwaak Review
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
The New Quarterly
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $250 for fiction and nonfiction, $40 for poetry
On Spec
Accepts: Fiction, poetry
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: See dates
Payment: Yes
PACE Magazine
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, reviews, photography, visual art
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Paperplates
Accepts: Essays, fiction, poetry, reviews
Issues per year: 1
Submission period: Year round
Parentheses Journal
Accepts: Poetry, fiction and art
Issues per year: 2
Submission Period: See dates
Plenitude
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, interviews
Issues per year: Online only
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $60 for prose, $25 for poetry
Prairie Fire
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: 10¢ per word for prose to various maximums, $40 for poetry
Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Honorarium if submission is published in print
Prism International
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $30 per printed page for prose, two copies of the issue
Pulp Literature
Accepts: Short fiction, poetry, graphic novels, illustrations
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $0.015-$0.07 per word to various maximums for short stories, $25-$50 for poetry and interior illustrations, $25-$75 per page for sequential art (graphic novels and cartoons) and illustrations
The Puritan
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, essays
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $100
Queen's Quarterly
Accepts: Fiction, poetry, essays, reviews
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: Yes
Ricepaper Magazine
Accepts: Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, artwork
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Riddle Fence
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Room
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $50 for one page, $60 for two pages, $90 for three pages, $120 for four pages, $150 for five or more pages
Shrapnel
Accepts: Fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, interviews, comics
Issues per year: Online only
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $60 for fiction, creative nonfiction and essays; $30 for poetry, comics and hybrid forms
Spadina Literary Review
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork, comics
Issues per year: 6
Submission period: Year round
subTerrain
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 3
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $50 per page, $50 per poem
These Writers' Voices
Accepts: Prose (Fiction, Nonfiction); Poetry; Art; Photography
Issues per year: 4
Submission period: Year round
Payment: No
The /tƐmz/ Review
Accepts: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and reviews
Issues per year: 4
Submission Period: Year round
Payment: Yes
Toronto Journal
Genres: Fiction, local histry
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $50 and a copy of the print issue
Understorey Magazine
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Issues per year: 2-3
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $30-$60 honorarium
untethered
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, visual art
Issues per year: 2
Submission period: Year round
Payment: $10 honorarium
Vallum
Accepts: Poetry, essays, reviews
Issues per year: 2
Submission Period: Year round
Payment: Yes
The Windsor Review
Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork
Issues per year: 2
Submission Period: Year round
Yolk
Accepts: Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, visual arts
Issues per year: 2 printed publications (digital content published every three weeks)
Submission Period: Year round
Payment: $100 for digital publication, $30 per page to a maximum of $200 and $200 for cover art.
