The Cardiff Review is an international literary magazine with equal parts Welsh and Canadian roots, publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, interviews, and more.

The Cardiff Review is an international literary magazine. Founded in 2015 by four graduate students of Cardiff University’s MA in Creative Writing program, The Review‘s first iteration was a digital magazine that published three issues. For the magazine’s fourth issue, Summer 2016, we transitioned to print. The issue featured an interview with Canadian actor and author, Sofia Banzhaf, who also appeared on the cover, shot by Toronto-based photographer Mark Sommerfeld.  

In the two years that followed, we published an additional seven print issues, including a themed issue around queerness. In 2018, we made the decision to move the magazine entirely online, in an effort to publish more content, more often. To date, we’ve published upwards of 150 new voices across fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as interviews with some of literature’s most renowned writers including Sheila Heti, Iain Reid, Richard Gwyn, Thomas Morris, and Sophie Mackintosh.

We encourage writers who identify as LGBTQIA+ to mark their submission as eligible for Queerly Lit, our series featuring queer writers and writing. Details are available within our open calls on Submittable.

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