Issue 72: Winter 2026 Winter 2026 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

Issue 72 features fiction from Jowita Bydlowska, Lynne Sargent, and Cassidy Menard: ex-puritan.ca/issue-72-win...

Excerpt from Trina Roache's essay "A Principal Woman: Maillard and the Mi'kmaw Elder" published in Issue 177 of The New Quarterly.

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Trina Roache's "A Principal Woman: Maillard and the Mi'kmaw Elder" from Issue 177! Click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/a-prin...

#readersofbluesky #essay #amreading

Our Spring issue is shipping out today to subscribers!

Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/307

We now have 72 magazines in our #litmag directory! The best writing from new, emerging and established writers in Canada and beyond. See the full list here: litmags.ca/directory/

Feminist Poetry on International Women's Day Join us on Zoom for the fourth annual International Women’s Day reading organized by the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets!

Poetry on International Women's Day from the feminist caucus of the League of Canadian Poets. www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-p...
@canadianpoets.bsky.social

Our annual art contest is now open for submissions. Spread the word!

#ArtContest #ArtCommunity #Painting #Sculpture #Illustration #Photography #DigitalPainting #TextileArt #LineDrawing #Printmaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia #VisualArt #Artwork #Artist #ArtMag #Magazine #oilpainting #fineart

Looking for the best new writing in Canada? We now have 70 literary magazines listed in the LMCC directory!
litmags.ca/directory/

TtD supplement #289 : seven questions for Susan Gevirtz Susan Gevirtz’s most recent books include Burns (Pamenar), Hotel abc (Nightboat) and Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street). ...

Touch the Donkey supplement #289 : seven questions for Susan Gevirtz / @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
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We're updating our contest page. 2026 deadlines for subs to Canadian litmags are here: litmags.ca/contests/. Contact us for additions! #amwriting #litmags

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!

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!

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)

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.

And #litmags are where it all starts for literary arts and culture. tinyurl.tools/981c4596

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/

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.

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 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.

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. Text says" We found that litmags are the foundation of literary publishing. Literary magazines are essential in helping new writers become professional writers."

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

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)

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...

Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] : forty-sixth issue, / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ;
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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.

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

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...

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/

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...

Touch the Donkey supplement #277 : seven questions for Dominic Dulin
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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

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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/

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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/

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.

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.

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Last day to take advantage of our spring subscription sale! $10 off your subscription to PF!

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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-...