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80 Places to Submit Literary Writing in Canada

Your Guide to Canadian Literary Submissions

Are you looking for places to submit writing in Canada? Check out this guide to Canadian literary submissions!

Included in this guide to Canadian literary submissions is submission information for 80 Canadian literary journals, magazines and websites. As an added bonus, most of these literary publications are open to emerging writers!

We’ve linked directly to the pages describing where to submit writing. We’ve also included whether or not they accept simultaneous submissions, information about payment, and how to submit

So what are you waiting for? Get submitting!

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Agnes and True
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $75 per story
Method: Online Form

Alberta Views
Simultaneous: Not Specified
Payment: Yes, amount not specified
Method: Email

Arc
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $50 per page
Method: Submittable

Auger
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $0.02/word over 1250 words, $25 under 1250, $20 poem
Method: Moksha

Blank Spaces
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Not Specified
Method: Online Form

Brick
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Yes, amount not specified
Method: Submittable

Broken Pencil
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $30 to $300
Method: Email, Submittable

Bywords
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $75
Method: Email

Canadian Literature
Simultaneous: No
Payment: Small honorarium
Method: OJS

Canadian Notes and Queries
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Contest prizes up to $1000
Method: Email

Canthius
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $15/poem, $50/prose
Method: Submittable

carte blanche
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Modest honorarium
Method: Submittable

Cosmonauts Avenue
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Contest prizes up to $500
Method: Submittable

CV2
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $30 to $150
Method: Submittable

Dreamers Creative Writing
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $20 to $160, contests up to $250
Method: Submittable

Event
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $30/page pros, $35/page poetry, max of $500
Method: Submittable

Existere
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Small honorarium, amount not specified
Method: Email

Feathertale
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Yes, but amount not specified
Method: Email

Filling Station
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $25
Method: Submittable

Forget Magazine
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: None
Method: Email

Found Press
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $50 plus royalties
Method: Email

Freefall
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $10/page up to $100 for prose, $25 per poem
Method: Online Form

Geez
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Modest honorarium, amount not specified
Method: Email

Geist
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Yes, but amount not specified
Method: Postal Mail

Grain
Simultaneous: No
Payment: $50/page to a maximum of $250
Method: Submittable

Guts
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $50 blog/$100 issue
Method: Email

Hamilton Arts and Letters
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Small honorarium, amount not specified
Method: Email

Hamilton Review of Books
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $50/review, $75/essay
Method: Email

Humber Literary Review
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $100 for essays, fiction, reviews, 2-3 poems, plus 1-year subscription
Method: Submittable

Joyland
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Yes, but amount not specified
Method: Submittable

Juniper: A Poetry Journal
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Not specified
Method: Email

Little Fiction | Big Truths
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Email

Maple Tree Literary Supplement
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $30 honorarium
Method: Online Form

Montreal Writes
Simultaneous: No
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Email

Nunum
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $20
Method: Submittable

One Throne Magazine
Simultaneous: No
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Submittable

On Spec
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $50 to $200
Method: Submittable

paperplates
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Email

Petal Journal
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Not specified
Method: Email

Plenitude Magazine
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $35 poem, $85 prose honorarium
Method: Submittable

Prairie Fire
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $0.10 per word, max $250
Method: Postal Mail

Prism
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $30/page prose, $40/page poetry
Method: Submittable

Pulp Literature
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Between 0.015 and $0.07/per word, max 7000 words
Method: Email

Queen’s Quarterly
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Yes, but amount not specified
Method: Email or Postal Mail

Ricepaper Magazine
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Email

Riddle Fence
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $30/page
Method: Email

Room
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $50/one page, $60/two, $90/three, $120 four, $150 five plus
Method: Submittable

Sewer Lid
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Not specified
Method: Email

Spadina Literary Review
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Not specified
Method: Email

Story Quilt
Simultaneous: Not Specified
Payment: Not Specified
Method: Online Form

subTerrain
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $0.10/per word, max $500, $50 poem
Method: Submittable

Taddle Creek
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Not specified
Method: Email or postal mail

The Anti-Languorous Project
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: 1 hard copy publication
Method: Submittable

The Bull Calf
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Not specified
Method: Email

The Dalhousie Review
Simultaneous: No
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Email

The Danforth Review
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Submittable

The Darling Axe
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $5
Method: Online Form

The Fiddlehead
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $60/page
Method: Submittable

The Goose
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Online form

The Malahat Review
Simultaneous: No
Payment: $60/page plus a 1 year subscription
Method: Submittable

The Maynard
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Not specified
Method: Online Form

The Montreal Review
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: No payment provided
Method: Email

The New Quarterly
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $250 (story or non-fiction)/$40 (poem)
Method: Postal Mail

The Prairie Journal
Simultaneous: No
Payment: Modest honorarium for print, amount not specified
Method: Postal Mail

The Puritan
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $20/poem, $75/fiction, $100/essay, interview or review
Method: Online Form

The Quilliad
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $13 honorarium
Method: Email

The Rusty Toque
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: $50 honorarium
Method: Email

The/tEmz/Review
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $20
Method: Email

The Walrus
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: $1/word for print, online is $350 for opinion pieces/essays and $400 for reported pieces
Method: Email

The Windsor Review
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Not specified
Method: Email or postal mail

This Magazine
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Yes, but amount not specified
Method: Email

Understory
Simultaneous: Yes
Payment: Yes, $50 to $100
Method: Email

Untethered
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Contest prizes up to $200
Method: Email

Vallum Magazine
Simultaneous: No
Payment: Yes, but amount not specified
Method: Online or postal mail

White Wall Review
Simultaneous: Not specified
Payment: Not specified
Method: Not specified

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Submit writing to Dreamers Creative Writing!

Dreamers is also part of this Guide to Canadian Literary Submissions:

We’re looking for short stories, poems, personal essays or excerpts (that stand alone) from any genre of writing. We’re willing to consider any form of writing that is well-written and from the heart. We especially love writing that has some connection to writing for wellness – narrative medicine, medical memoir, writing the self, healing writing, etc. Previously published pieces are okay, as long as they are currently available for repeat publication. We accept submissions via submittable and pay authors a one-time $20 honorarium.


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About the Author of this Guide to Canadian Literary Submissions

Kat McNichol is the Co-Editor for the Journal of Integrated Studies and the Editor-in-Chief of Dreamers Creative Writing. She is also a Director of Marketing-Communications in Waterloo and has spent the past 12+ years writing marketing copy for the high-tech industry. She holds a B.A. in English Literature, and an MAIS in Writing and New Media, and Literary Studies, and she is working on a PhD in Career Writing at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands.

*I’ve emailed a number of queries to the Canadian literary publications (Canadian literary journals, literary websites, literary magazines) featured in this guide to Canadian literary submissions, asking for the information I’m currently missing. This article about where to submit writing in Canada will be updated as the missing information is provided to me. In the meantime, if you notice anything incorrect in this list of Canadian literary publications or you have some of the information I’m missing, email info@dreamerswriting.com.

*This article about which literary publications to submit writing to in Canada was last updated on July 29, 2020.