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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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Acceptance Rate
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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12
Total submissions tracked
35 days
Average response time
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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