East Coast / West Coast: Call for Submissions

Through the imagination we can truly see where we live, but sometimes it’s illuminating to see ourselves through the eyes of others — especially through those trained on us from afar.

In the fall of 2012, The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead will celebrate the writing of each other’s regions, with the former publishing an East Coast issue and the latter a West Coast issue. Writers with strong connections to either or both regions are invited to submit to the issue that will best provide it the most apt and safe harbour.

To mark the publication of these issues, The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead will also launch a joint website where web surfers can also engage in the convergences and differences in the literatures of two of Canada’s remarkable coastlines. Proposals for web content are invited and may be sent to either or both magazines.

 

Guidelines

  • No definite “regional” theme or focus is required. However, only work by writers living in or with a personal connection to either region or both will be considered.
  • The East Coast includes all four provinces of Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador).
  • The West Coast embraces the whole of British Columbia, including Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, and the B.C. mainland from the coast through to the eastern interior.
  • Submissions of poetry, fiction, personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, and literary journalism are welcome.

Deadline for both issues: May 15, 2012
Please send all submissions and mailed queries, accompanied by an SASE and an email address to:

West Coast Issue
The Fiddlehead
Campus House
University of New Brunswick
Box 4400
Fredericton, N.B., E3B 5A3

 East Coast Issue
The Malahat Review
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700 Stn CSC
Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
  • No restrictions as to form or approach apply.
  • Neither magazine will accept submissions by email.
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