Call for Submissions

Publishing Agreement

Article:

We are interested in articles on all subjects relating to writers and writing in Canada; we do not adhere to one theoretical approach alone. Articles should follow current MLA bibliographic format. We require three copies of the text. The Author's name should be removed from two of the copies as well as all references identifying the author throughout the text. We do not accept e-mail submissions of articles. Confirmation of receipt of manuscript articles will be sent if an e-mail address is provided .

Poetry:

We accept a few poems by Canadian writers for each issue (see recent copies of the journal for samples.) Submissions of poems may be made either by conventional mail or by e-mail. In order to ensure correct formatting in print, a hard copy of any poem(s) accepted from e-mail submissions must be sent to the journal by conventional mail.

Fiction:

We do NOT publish fiction.

Book Reviews :

We do not accept unsolicited book reviews. Canadian Literature reviews scholarly works discussing all aspects of Canadian Literature and culture as well as selections on scholarly works on related subjects such as post-colonalism. Other areas include fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and drama.

Basic Requirements:

Article and poetry submissions must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE), with Canadian stamps or international coupons for outside Canada. Submissions that are not accompanied by a SASE will not receive a response. However, for articles without SASE, articles will be kept on file for six weeks after the date of the letter of rejection, then destroyed. All accepted articles, reviews, and poems must be available on diskette, preferably in Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word 98, though ASCII is acceptable. We can translate PC files but would prefer the disk copies in MacIntosh format.

Please mail submissions to:

Canadian Literature
#167-1855 West Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2

Book Review Guidelines

Most reviews are solicited by our Book Review Editor. If you are interested in reviewing books for Canadian Literature, please inquire first by sending an e-mail message to cl.reviews@ubc.ca or send a letter and samples of your writing to:

Canadian Literature
#167-1855 West Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2

Upon publication, reviewers will receive offprints of their review. For samples of reviews published in Canadian Literature, click here.

Book Review Format

Please send your review in hard copy AND on an accompanying diskette (see above for file format information).

Please use the following format for the book information that precedes your review:

Line 1: Title of Your Review, in upper and lower case, 23 character maximum including spaces.
Line 2: Author or Editor of the first book under review, in upper and lower
case.
Line 3: Title of Book under review in italics. Followed by a period. Followed
immediately by the name of the publisher (e.g., Talonbooks, U Toronto P,
Oxford, Brick, using standard abbreviations and leaving out words like Ltd. and Co.) in standard type, followed immediately (no comma) by the price (no period following) or n.p. if no price is listed. DO NOT INCLUDE place of publication, ISBN, or year of publication. REPEAT lines 2 and 3 as necessary, if writing an omnibus review.
Line 4: type in "Reviewed by (Your Name)" with no period following. Then
begin your review at the left margin for the first paragraph. Indent all subsequent paragraphs. Please double space. eg.

Record of Writing

George Bowering
Sticks and Stones. Talonbooks $8.95

Reviewed by

In your review, please (a) use italics rather than underlining for book titles; (b) put periods and commas INSIDE quotation marks, and colons and semi-colons outside.

Please put a BACKUP copy of your review (also in RTF format) on the same diskette.