Journals and Zines - oh my!

6 Canadian journals and zines are donating to the campaign

The Canadian small press includes great literary magazines and zines. For a guide to Canadian Literary Magazines, please click on this article by the National Magazine Association. One of the things that fascinates me about litmags and zines is the way each one cultivates its own aesthetic and is totally different from the other.

I am very grateful to the following magazines and zines that are taking part in our crowd funding campaign by donating subscriptions, broadsides, tote bags and anthologies.

You can choose one of these great offerings from the crowd funding campaign, choose something different or donate funds not associated with a perk. Money raised goes towards paying the contributors to NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O this year.

Arc Poetry Magazine

Arc Poetry Magazine is based on Ottawa.

“At Arc, we find the brave new voices. We feature poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike, and prose that offers new perspectives on the verse you thought you knew.”

Arc is donating a 1-year subscription of all 2023 issues, plus an exclusive broadside.

Brick: A Literary Journal “is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. With a focus on literary non-fiction—and a willingness to stray when our hearts are taken—the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings we can get our hands on.”

Brick is donating a gift package containing its two most recent issues (109 & the forthcoming 110) plus a 1-year subscription and a Brick totebag.

“CAROUSEL (est. 1983) is an exquisitely produced hybrid literary/arts magazine representing new & established creators, with a focus on positioning Canadian talent within an international context. This innovative journal — now exclusively released online as of December 2020 — prides itself on presenting work across many genres: if it’s original & engaging, we want to give it a home!”

CAROUSEL is donating 5 issues to the crowd funding campaign. Issues 38-42.

Horsebroke Press, also out of Ottawa, publishes the zine, These Days. The press has donated 5 subscriptions for Canadian residents. As soon as the campaign launched, one of these subscriptions was snapped up immediately.

The Art Gallery of Ontario has this to say about what a zine is:

A zine is usually a non – commercial, non professional publication, kind of like a magazine but with a twist. The main difference between a magazine and a zine is that zines are not out there to make a profit but, rather, to add other, often unheard voices into the mix. Zines are usually made out of interest and passion and are often self-published by the writer/artist/creator. Typically zines are made using collage techniques and are then photocopied since these are means available to almost everyone.

“Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty-five years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by people of all marginalized genders, including cis and trans women, trans men, nonbinary and two spirit people. We believe in publishing emerging writers alongside established authors, and because of this, approximately 90% of the work we publish comes from unsolicited submissions or contest entries.”

Room is donating copy of the 40 years of Room Magazine anthology, a 1-year subscription, and a code for 25% off merchandise only.

Vallum Magazine is a contemporary poetry publisher out of Montreal. They publish magazines and chapbooks.

Vallum is donating the following issues and chapbooks:

Issue 19:1, "Bridges," Spring 2022;

Issue 19:2, Open Theme, Fall 2022

House, Chapbook, by Scott Cecchin, 2022

Des Monsteras, Chapbook by Heather White, 2021

You can get these and other limited edition publications and books galore, tote bags, cute little buttons and broadsides by supporting the AngelHousePress 2023 Caring Imagination Crowd Funding Campaign. Please do so today! We have a short time to make enough money to pay our contributors. I’d really appreciate your support.