Toronto Review (TR)

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About

Toronto Review publishes criticism and fiction cultivated in a flourishing local literary scene. TR is collectively-run, writer-founded, and community-oriented, with deep ties to the Canadian artistic landscape. Our primary ambition is to stimulate and support innovation, solidarity, and excellence among writers based in Toronto, Canada, and beyond to promote conversation with a global literary community.
TR is inspired by the creative resources of the city we call home: Toronto. We understand literature and criticism’s power to facilitate connections and expand horizons. Our goal is to help local writers reach the broad readership that their work deserves, and thus our mandate promises that at least half of all our yearly publications be by Canadians or about Canadian cultural production. We celebrate the borderless energies of literary culture, we want to tell the world what is happening in Toronto and we want the world to write us back.

Country of Publication & Year Established

Canada

Established in 2026

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Published on a rolling basis

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Toronto Review’s is looking for fiction with an advanced sense of style and a developed voice, attentive to its own language, rhythm, and logic. Stories should be both well-considered and exploratory, interested in both narrative and conceptual propulsion.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Canadians.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Short Story: 2,000 - 4,000 words.
Novel Excerpt: 2,000 - 4,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Place/Regions: Specific region, See guidelines.

Payment:

Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Token payment to Professional payment. Details: CAD $150.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Media: Text.

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Reviews: A TR review should be idiosyncratic, responsive but not reactive, historicized, contextualized, and showcase a clarity of vision and taste. We like essayistic reviews that provoke new questions, question stable answers, and introduce new ways of reading.
TR welcomes reviews of forthcoming texts that thoughtfully engage with the present but that also outlast it. A TR review offers a rich occasion to think through form, to read closely yet think broadly—to not just critique but reveal. Though we focus on literary fiction and literary nonfiction, we also occasionally cover film and are open to considering pitches for reviews of works in other mediums.
Essays: Toronto Review invites essays of literary and cultural criticism. A Toronto Review essay plays with form and can have a narrative thrust; it is sharp, argument-driven and/or ekphrastic, prioritizing deep deliberation over surface spectacle; it can centre the author’s perspective and sensations; it can assume a range of tenors and techniques; but it must always be critical. Writing by experts in their field should be accessible for Toronto Review’s generalist readership while still being rigorous and innovative.
Though undergirded by the imbrication of aesthetics and politics, a TR essay is neither journalism nor news. It does not seek to speedily churn out hot takes and takedowns, but to provide a thoughtful analysis of language, art, and power, amongst other topics.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Canadians.

Lengths:

Review: Up to 3,000 words.
Essay: 2,000 - 3,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Critical, Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Literature/Books: Theory/Analysis/Criticism.
Society/Culture: General, See guidelines.

Payment:

Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment to Professional payment. Details: CAD $150.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Media: Text.

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Toronto Review Submission Statistics

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We have received 3 reports from 3 different members within the past 12 months, not including pending responses (see below). The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.

Days Reported

13 min | 41.7 mean avg | 53.0 median | 59 max days (25.0 std dev)

Pending

1 response is pending (26 days waiting).

Other Information

The editors will try to make a decision within 42 days. (66.7 % of the responses reported to us for this listing have taken longer than 42 days.)
Most recent response reported was received on 04 Aug 2026.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 12 Jun 2026.
Date compiled: 15 Sep 2026 10:10 UTC (less than a minute ago).

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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