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"Canada's oldest magazine of literary criticism. Books, culture, a Canadian perspective, a backward glance."
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      Simultaneous submissions

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      $0-200

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

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      Provide contributor copies

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

2 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Nonfiction

CNQ considers a wide variety of non-fiction (literary and cultural criticism, essays, memoir, humour) written either from a Canadian perspective, or about Canadian subjects, for publication.

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Humor

CNQ considers a wide variety of non-fiction (literary and cultural criticism, essays, memoir, humour) written either from a Canadian perspective, or about Canadian subjects, for publication.

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Nonfiction

CNQ considers a wide variety of non-fiction (literary and cultural criticism, essays, memoir, humour) written either from a Canadian perspective, or about Canadian subjects, for publication.

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Humor

CNQ considers a wide variety of non-fiction (literary and cultural criticism, essays, memoir, humour) written either from a Canadian perspective, or about Canadian subjects, for publication.

Magazine

Founded in 1968 | Canada

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 :)

Dan Wells
Editor-in-Chief
Madhur Anand
Poetry Editor
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