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Ottawa Arts Review (Literary and Visual Arts Journal of the University of Ottawa) seeks submissions of short fiction, poetry, drama, and visual art; also personal essays, reviews, and interviews that relate to literary and visual art. OAR “gives an equal voice to local, Canadian, and international artists, whether emerging or established.”
Online journal Cactus Heart Literary Magazine (U.S.) seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, art & photos for e-Issue #5. Looking “your spiny, your sharp, your relentless… work coursing with energy and able to thrive in the harshest of places, while maintaining a vulnerable, succulent interior.” Deadline: July 1, 2013.
Online arts review magazine The Coastal Spectator (Victoria, BC) seeks reviews of theatre, books, music, film, visual arts, and other cultural happenings around coastal BC specifically (but not exclusively). Submit pieces that are “short and sharp.” Length: 300-500 words. Payment: stipend of $25. Partial to views that reflect a coastal slant on things. Query the editor at lvluven@uvic.ca.
Online quarterly The Puritan (Toronto) seeks fiction, poetry, reviews, literary essays, and interviews for Issue XXII: Summer 2013. “Submissions may push toward the symbolic frontier, challenging limitations and forging into previously unexplored aesthetic territory.” Deadline: June 21, 2013. Payment: $40-50 for prose and $15 for poetry.
The Ottawa Arts Review seeks prose submissions (including short fiction, personal essays, reviews, and interviews) relating to literary and visual arts, poetry, drama, and visual art.
The recently-launched Northern Cardinal Review (Canada) is seeking creative and vivid poetry, non-fiction essays, and book reviews. Open to writers living in Canada, Alaska, or the northern border states of the U.S.
Kolaj (Montreal, QC) is a quarterly, print magazine about contemporary collage. Seeks critical reviews and essays, artist profiles, event highlights, articles on collage making, collecting, and exhibiting, and other contributions. Pays.
Interdisciplinary peer reviewed publication InTensions: E-Journal (York University, Toronto) seeks scholarly/artistic contributions for Issue 7. Theme: Fun and Games – Playing to the Limit. Invites papers (4000-6000 words), artist works, reviews, and interviews. Welcomes theoretical explorations, as well as reflections, experiments, reports, or ethnographies on play and playfulness in its lived, historical, and cultural contexts. Deadline: April 15, 2013.
Literary quarterly journal The Antigonish Review (St. Francis Xavier University, NS) welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, articles, and book reviews. Deadline: Ongoing (does not accept fiction June 1 – September 30). Payment: $10-$50.