Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Issue 2, Volume 15 | February 2018

Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Issue 201, Winter 2017

New Winter Issue

Featuring the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction winning story, "Faster Horses" by Katherin Edwards, and the Constance Rooke CNF Prize winning essay, "Flaubert's Hummingbirds" by Nancy Holmes.

Buy now from the Malahat site


WordsThaw Prequel Reading

WTPrequel Feb2

Join us for a reading featuring writers Lisa Bird-Wilson and Christine Lowther.

February 2, 2018 at 7:30 pm

Doors open at 7:00 pm

Planet Earth Poetry

Hillside Coffee + Tea

1633 Hillside Avenue, Victoria, BC

All welcome—admission is free!

Read more on our website.


Publishing Tip by Roy Miller

Roy Miller

The proposal is arguably the most important part of the getting published process. Sure, a good manuscript helps, but if you have a weak (or worse off, no) proposal, that manuscript might end up untouched by the people you need to see it most. When the writing process is done and your piece is all polished and ready to go with an eye-catching front cover and gripping blurb on the back, it’s time to buckle down and start your proposal.

Roy Miller is the award-winning author of A Life With You, Sunburnt Farmlands of the Midwest, Halcyon, and Exalted. He is a regular contributor to his local newspaper and has several publications in various literary magazines and anthologies. He was the winner of the 2013 Topaz Award for Author of the Year.

Read the Publishing Tip here


Queer Perspectives Call

The Malahat Review invites writers identifying as LGBTQ2S? to submit their work for consideration for an issue celebrating contemporary queer writing in Canada. Guest editors Ali Blythe, Trevor Corkum, and Betsy Warland will work together to choose writing by poets, short-story, and creative-nonfiction authors whose work makes vivid and particular their experience of being alive in the world.

Read more about Queer Perspectives on our website

 

Deadline Extended to February 5 at Midnight!

Novella Prize Contest Extended

Take the weekend to wrap up your entry—this biennial contest won't be back until 2020!

Submit your 10,000 to 20,000 word story for a chance to win $1500. Previous winning entries have also won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for fiction and the O. Henry Prize.

Entry fee (comes with a one-year print subscription):
$35 CAD for Canadian entries
$40 USD for entries from the USA
$45 USD for entries from elsewhere

Additional entries cost $15 CAD from anywhere, no limit!

This year's judges are Jacqueline Baker, Eliza Robertson, and Richard Van Camp. Click their names to read interviews with the judges on what they'll be looking for in this year's submissions.

Full contest guidelines available on the Malahat website.

 

Winter Issue Interview with Morgan Charles on Creative Nonfiction

Morgan CharlesMalahat fiction board intern Holly Lam talks with Morgan Charles about memory, decay, and how time can shift your perspective.

 

HL: The voice [in your story] has a wryness to it, the humour surfacing through observations and judgments made by you as the narrator. Is this your own sense of humour, or did the narrative voice develop a personality of its own as the memoir took shape?

MC: Yes, that’s my own sense of humour, though I think I definitely sharpened it to my advantage during the writing and editing process. During the time that all of this was happening—my dad’s illness, my pregnancy, etc—I relied on humour a lot to cope with everything. “Gallows humour,” my dad called it. He was a very funny guy and always used humour to deal with his own fears, which is something I definitely inherited from him. He was also my first audience, and I always wanted to make him laugh. 

Read the rest of Morgan's interview on the Malahat website.

 

Winter Issue Interview with Andy Patton on Poetry

Andy PattonMalahat past editor John Barton talks with Andy Patton about Gramsci, Fascism, and "versions" of poems versus translations.

 

JB: For readers who may not know who Antonio Gramsci is, can you provide us with a thumbnail sketch of his life?

AP: Antonio Gramsci was the leader of the Communist Party in Italy during the early twenties, during the years that Fascism rose and Mussolini took power. He was jailed in 1926; at his trial, the judge famously said "For twenty years we must stop this brain from functioning." He died in prison in 1937. In his thought, especially in The Prison Notebooks, you’ll find much of what led to Cultural Marxism. In that sense he was allied to Walter Benjamin and Adorno, who became so important after the Second World War. His concept of “hegemony” provided a possible answer to the question of why those who were exploited didn’t rise up and throw off their chains: culture seems to tie us into the larger system.

Read the rest of Andy's interview on the Malahat website.

 

Changes at the Malahat

Irena KarafillyOn January 31, John Barton stepped down as the editor of The Malahat Review, after fourteen years.  For him, in his own words, “it has been a dream job,” one that has allowed him to work with a remarkable set of authors whose work he published in fifty-seven issues of the magazine. Highlights of his time with the Malahat include the “Green Imagination” issue, “At Home in Translation,” “Elusive Boundaries: CNF in Canada Today,” “Indigenous Perspectives,” and “Victoria Past, Victoria Present, Victoria Future.” His last issue will be Spring 2018, which shall appear this April.

Irena KarafillyMicaela Maftei, a member of the Malahat’s fiction board, has been chosen as the magazine’s interim editor.  Originally from Toronto, Micaela studied at the University of Toronto before moving to Scotland for postgraduate work. Five years later, she left with an M. Litt in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. Since arriving in Victoria in 2013, Micaela has taught at UVic and Camosun College. She is the author of The Fiction of Autobiography (Bloomsbury, 2013) and co-editor of Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Determining the Form (Gylphi, 2015). Her short fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Gutter, and various anthologies in the UK.

Read more on the Malahat website.

 

 

To unsubscribe from our mailing list, CLICK HERE, scroll to the bottom of the page, and type in your email address beside the box labelled "Unsubscribe or edit options".