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Appendix C:
Literary Periodicals
There are more than 300 magazines and periodicals in BC, but for the purposes of this
document, we have listed only those focusing on literature and the arts.
periodical
BC Bookworld
Capilano Review
Claremont Review
Event
Geist
Malahat Review
notes
Founded in 1987, BC Bookworld is a
newspaper about books. It is Canada’s
largest-circulation independent publication
about literature, and is produced four
times a year.
The Capilano Review has published some
of the finest fiction, poetry, drama, and
visual art in Canada and internationally.
Now in its 35th year, the magazine
continues to favour the risky, the
provocative, the innovative, and the
dissident.
The Claremont Review is a literary magazine
that features outstanding fiction and
poetry by young writers between the ages
of 13 and 19.
For more than 35 years, the literary
magazine Event has focused on fiction,
poetry, creative non-fiction, notes on
writing, and reviews. It features Canadian
and international writing, and has been
rated in the top “Fiction 50” in North
America by Writer’s Digest.
Geist is Canada’s most widely read literary
magazine. Its pages are devoted to the
liveliest and the best in story and essay,
photography, comix, poetry, weird
cartography, little-known fact, opinion and
review, and occasional rant.
The Malahat Review is one of Canada’s
most admired journals, publishing cuttingedge
poetry and fiction by emerging and
established writers from Canada and
around the world.