Submissions may be made through the mail or online at https://grainmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Editor
Grain Magazine
PO Box 3986
Regina, SK, S4P 3R9
Canada
Fiction and Nonfiction Editor: Lisa Bird-Wilson
Poetry Editor: Alasdair Rees
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Published four times per year, Grain Magazine is an internationally acclaimed literary journal that publishes engaging, surprising, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists.
Grain has an eight-month submissions period which runs from September 15th to May 15th. Manuscripts received outside of this window will be automatically rejected.
Send typed, unpublished material only (we consider work published online to be previously published). If work is submitted simultaneously, please let us know as soon as possible if it is accepted elsewhere. Please only submit work in one genre at one time.
Poetry: Individual poems, sequences, or suites up to a maximum of six pages.
Fiction: To a maximum of 3,500 words.
Literary Nonfiction: To a maximum of 3,500 words.
For fiction and nonfiction submissions, PLEASE PROVIDE A WORD COUNT.
Other writing: Queries for submissions of work in other forms (i.e. short plays, comics, etc.) are welcome. You may submit such queries through Submittable or by mail.
Market Type: Magazine
Accepts: Avant-garde, Free Verse, Literary Nonfiction
Web Address: www.grainmagazine.ca
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Updated November 10, 2020