Editor Interview: Spadina Literary Review

Heartfelt and challenging

I read the Globe & Mail more than anything else. Also Frank, when I can find it, and Fluide Glacial. I used to admire the New Yorker and Harpers and wish I still could.

We publish writing, with art up front and alongside. I don’t know if the concept of having “favorites” is part of my conscious world. There are a few writers some of whose works I’ve read multiple times: Robert Service, A.E. Housman, LeCarré, Conrad, Kerouac, Camus, George Grant. In art I’m grateful for Gauguin, Georges Barbier, Tom Thompson, Jean Giraud, Jean-Paul Lemieux, Basquiat, Seth. The lists could go on.

This is an online lit mag with a layout very like a paper-based literary journal. We focus on Canadian authors with meaningful stories to share.

Write from the heart.

Thoughtful and well-written. Warm.

We have a submissions form: https://forms.gle/sKQv6GuVZTVSQcPN7

The submission is the only thing we consider. Cover letters are appreciated but not necessary.

We read every piece to the end.

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Extremely exciting, staring at screens. Tracking submissions in a spreadsheet and sending out emails. The reward comes in the satisfaction of solving problems and putting out a good-looking, highly readable product.

The author always gets to approve the final edits. Most submissions are only edited for grammar, if at all.

I expect we will start to do that this year.