Lareina Abbott, winter issue #233 cnf contributor, chats with us about chronic illness, speculative nonfiction, and looking at life events as a series of spokes on a wheel.
Link to the full interview: malahatreview.ca/interviews/a...
We'll be at Here Magazine's PNW Summit this Wednesday and Thursday!
🗓️ April 22 & 23
📍 Victoria Conference Centre
📋️ Sign up to attend workshops, panels, conversations, exhibitions, & performances.
🎟️ Buy tickets now from the PNW Summit's website: pnwsummit.ca/get-tickets/
2026 Far Horizons Award for Poetry judge, Kevin Irie, talks with us about the inspiration for his latest book Evacuations, living in the light of other poems, and poetry that seems inevitable in its destination.
Link to the full interview: malahatreview.ca/interviews/i...
3 weeks to enter our Poetry Prize!
Judge Kevin Irie: "…I really love poems that confound expectations, that take me down to unexplored poetic depths or up to fresher air…"
See Kevin's full response & guidelines: malahatreview.ca/interviews/i...
TOMORROW! Join us for a special collab event with Planet Earth Poetry.
🗓️ April 10
⏰️ doors 7, readings 7:30
📍 Russell Books, 100-747 Fort St
📕 featuring Louie Leyson, Garth Martens, & Elizabeth Bachinsky, hosted by our Editor, Iain Higgins
🎟️ entry by donation
planetearthpoetry.com/april-2026
Congrats to the 2026 Novella Prize winner!
Edmond Pang wins $2,000 & publication in issue 235 for "The Suitcase at Yokohama Station."
Thank you to judges Rob Benvie & Liz Harmer, & all our volunteers.
Read comments from the judges & learn more about the winner: malahatreview.ca/contests/nov...
Join us next week for a collab event with Planet Earth Poetry!
🗓️ April 10
⏰️ doors 7, readings 7:30
📍 Russell Books, 100-747 Fort St
📕 featuring Louie Leyson, @garthmartens.bsky.social, & Elizabeth Bachinsky, hosted by our Editor, Iain Higgins
🎟️ entry by donation
planetearthpoetry.com/april-2026
Announcing the shortlist for our 2026 Novella Prize!
www.malahatreview.ca/announcement...
The winner, as chosen by contest judges @robbenvie.bsky.social and @lizharmer.bsky.social, will be announced on April 9. Thank you to all who entered, and best of luck to those shortlisted.
☎️ Last day to submit for our Poetry Prize's Early Bird discount! Submit by March 31 and get $10 CAD off your initial entry fee!
📝 Final contest deadline: May 1, 2026 at 11:59pm PDT
Read the full contest guidelines here: www.malahatreview.ca/contests/far...
🦢 Only a week left to take advantage of our Far Horizons Poetry Prize Early Bird discount! Submit by March 31 and get $10 CAD off the initial entry fee!
🦢 Final contest deadline: May 1, 2026 at 11:59pm PDT
Read the full contest guidelines here: www.malahatreview.ca/contests/far...
We are excited to announce that Kevin Irie will be judging our 2025 Far Horizons Award for Poetry!
Looking to submit? March 31 is the last day for an Early Bird discount! Final submission deadline is May 1.
Read more about Kevin here: www.malahatreview.ca/contests/far...
🏁 Our Far Horizons Award for Poetry is now open! 🐦⬛ Early Bird pricing on until March 31.
*This contest is for emerging poets who have yet to publish their poetry in book form.*
Deadline: May 1 at 11:59pm PDT
Prize: $1,250 & publication
Judge: Kevin Irie
www.malahatreview.ca/contests/far...
Kieran Kalls Rice, whose piece “Héyeqwels” appears in issue #233, talks with us about cultural theft and reclamation, expanding a short story into a longer work, and how the words of elders impact how you think, perceive, and write.
Link to the full interview: www.malahatreview.ca/interviews/r...
Jason Pearce chats with us about humour in dark fiction, meeting people and communities from across Turtle Island, and targeting the notion that institutionalized religion is somehow more legitimate than Indigenous tradition.
Link to the full interview: www.malahatreview.ca/interviews/p...
Jayli Wolf, whose poem “goose tales” appears in our winter issue 233, talks with us about writing as a way to listen to yourself, when to end a poem, and allowing personal and cultural history to inform how you work.
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From February 14th-28th—or until our submission cap is reached for the month—we'll be accepting international (including US) submissions in poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction!
Canadian citizens & PRs are welcome to send us regular submissions from January 1st-June 30th.
Guidelines:
❗️ Join us TOMORROW for an evening of poetry, Afro-diasporic music, & history!
🎟️ free to all
🗓️ Tuesday Feb.10
⏰️ 7:30pm-9pm
📍 UVic, Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
🎸 Sonnet L'Abbé & Nick Peck
www.uvic.ca/significant-...
Hayden Park, winner of 2025's Constance Rooke CNF Prize with her piece, “The First Law of Adoptee Physics,” to be featured in our upcoming spring issue #234, talks with us about adoption narratives and how dissonance isn’t a mistake.
Full interview:
“The poem knew the ending it needed, and was waiting for me, and for the right time for me to discover it.”
Jenna Timmons-Oikawa chats with us about stolen land and stolen people and using colour to evoke emotion.
Full interview:
📬️ Our special winter issue 233 Inhale/Exhale: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling is here!
❄️ guest edited by @richardvancamp.bsky.social
❄️ cover art by Kristi Bridgeman
❄️ poetry, fiction, cnf, art, & more
Congrats to our three Open Season Awards winners!
🌿 poetry: Cassandra Myers
🌿 fiction: @andreabishop.bsky.social
🌿 cnf: Stephanie Harrington
Thanks to judges Manahil Bandukwala, H. Felix Chau Bradley, Shane Neilson, & our valued staff & volunteers for their work.
malahatreview.ca/contests/ope...
