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"A quarterly journal of creative writing, reviews, essays, and translations. Founded 1970."

"A quarterly journal of creative writing, reviews, essays, and translations. Founded 1970."

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Response Time

2-4 months / 35 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    Yes: see Genres section for details

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: yes

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    No

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Travel sketches, personal memoirs, writing about sports, culture, history, or other essays which fall under the general rubric of creative n...

Poetry

Max pieces: 8

No more than 6-8 poems should be submitted at any one time. A preferable submission would be from 3-4 poems. Poetry on any subject written f...

Review

No specific limitations

Translation

Max words: 2500

For prose submissions, up to a maximum of 2500 words. For poetry submissions, 2-3 poems (or 3-4 pages of poetry) maximum.

Art

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Travel sketches, personal memoirs, writing about sports, culture, history, or other essays which fall under the general rubric of creative n...

Poetry

Max pieces: 8

No more than 6-8 poems should be submitted at any one time. A preferable submission would be from 3-4 poems. Poetry on any subject written f...

Review

No specific limitations

Translation

Max words: 2500

For prose submissions, up to a maximum of 2500 words. For poetry submissions, 2-3 poems (or 3-4 pages of poetry) maximum.

Art

No specific limitations

Statistics

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Track submission

12

Total submissions tracked

35 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

19 days

Fastest response time

66 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 939 days

How to submit

Process

We use Submittable.

Cover letters

For translations, please include a brief bio of the author as well as the translator(s) - up to 100 words, maximum, for each.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Prose should be typed, double spaced, with author's last name on each page

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

Payment: poetry - $5 per page to a maximum of $25, fiction and nonfiction - $50, cover art - $100. Plus two copies (one digital and one print)

About the Magazine

Founded in 1970 | Canada

TAR reaches readers throughout Canada and the United States, as well as in countries like Germany, Korea, France, Saudi Arabia, England, and the Netherlands. Every year the journal receives more than a thousand submissions from as far away as Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Australia/New Zealand, India, Hawaii, and Brazil. TAR has always prided itself on offering an eclectic array of poetry and prose by emerging and established writers, as well as extensive book reviews and the occasional critical essay. TAR was also one of the first English-language literary journals in Canada to publish translations of French-Canadian poets. This tradition has expanded to include translations by international award-winning poets such as Estonian Arved Viirlaid and Brazilian Edilberto Coutinho. Each cover includes pieces by emerging and prominent artists. TAR won 2003 Canadian Magazine Publishers Award for Best Cover Art among Literary Magazines. TAR has a long reputation for attracting internationally recognized, award-winning writers. It has published the work of luminaries like Milton Acorn, Annie Dillard, Louis Dudek, Jane Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan, Thomas Merton, and Alden Nowlan. Some of the many major Canadian voices that have appeared in its pages include Marshall McLuhan, John Thompson, Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, David Adams Richards, Irving Layton, Carol Shields, Sheldon Currie, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Lynn Coady, Rohinton Mistry, Jan Zwicky, Stephanie Bolster, Sheree Fitch, Johanna Skibsrud, George Elliott Clarke, Don McKay, Brian Bartlett, Kathleen Winter, Alexander MacLeod, Wayne Johnston, Leo McKay Jr. and Anne Simpson.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Thomas Hodd

Editor-in-Chief

Anne Simpson

Associate Poetry Editor

Janette Fecteau

Associate Poetry Editor

David Hickey

Associate Poetry Editor

Elizabeth Blanchard

Associate Fiction Editor

Ernestine Lahey

Associate Fiction Editor

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