The Malahat Review
| The Malahat Review | |
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| description | Canadian literary magazine |
| publishing company | Magazines Canada ( Canada ) |
| First edition | 1967 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | John Barton |
| Web link | www.malahatreview.ca |
| ISSN |
0025-1216 |
| ZDB | 2615242-3 |
The Malahat Review is a Canadian literary magazine that was founded in 1967 and is one of the leading publications of its kind in North America .
Publication profile
The Malahat Review is published quarterly and compares works of Canadian and international literature from the fields of poetry , fiction and non-fiction . The publication also focuses on reviews of recently published Canadian poems , novels , short stories , short stories and literary non-fiction books. The tendency towards a comparative collective review is striking.
It also occasionally contains interviews , essays and special author portraits, such as those about PK Page (No. 117) or Lorna Crozier (No. 170). The online edition is supplemented by a monthly newsletter and some of the interviews can be downloaded as a podcast - mp3 file.
Place of publication is Victoria , British Columbia at the University of Victoria . John Barton is currently the editor-in-chief. A single edition currently costs 11.95 Canadian dollars, and an annual digital edition of 20 dollars. Full text editions have been available to subscribers since No. 70 from 1985 available online.
The name comes from the Malahat , one of the First Nations living on Vancouver Island on the Pacific coast of Canada . These belong to the Saanich living around Victoria .
Awards and nominations
The Malahat Review has been nominated eight times for the Western Magazine Award Foundation's Magazine of the Year over the years . In 1993 the magazine won the award.
22 Malahat authors have been featured as finalists on the National Magazine Awards Foundation's list over the past few decades . Short stories and their authors, first published in The Malahat Review , won the Journey Prize sponsored by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada six times, and in 2000 , Malahat Review Novella Prize winner The Deep was awarded to Mary Swan of the O. Henry Award presented.
The literary magazine also acts as a co-organizer, host and publication organ for various literary prizes such as the University of Victoria 50th-Anniversary Prize , the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize , the Open Season Awards for poetry, the Long Poem Prize for long poems and the Far Horizons Award for Poetry . Unlike many other Canadian literary prizes, English-speaking writers from the United States or other countries can apply. The respective winners receive a cash prize as well as a publication in the Malahat Review .
Outstanding authors
The Malhat Review published Yann Martel's first short story in 1988 . Other editions featured the works of Michael Ondaatje , Margaret Atwood , Susan Musgrave , Robert Bringhurst , Roo Borson , Mary Swan , Patricia Young and Barry Dempster .
Web links
- Homepage Retrieved on July 25, 2012 (English)
- The Malahat Review at his publisher Magazines Canada. Retrieved July 25, 2012 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Example: Jay Ruzesky, Review In: Catherine Owen and Joe Rosenblatt , Dark Fish and Other Infernos ; Onjana Yawnghwe , The Imaginary Lives of Buster Keaton ; Patricia Young , Pilgrimage: Love Poems . In: The Malahat Review . Summer 2012. No. 179 July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2012
- ↑ PK Page - A Tribute
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