The Malahat Review

The Malahat Review is a Canadian literary magazine, which was founded in 1967 and in North America is one of the leading publications of its kind.

Publication Profile

The Malahat Review is published once a quarter and provides comparative works of Canadian and international literature in the fields of poetry, fiction and non-fiction together. Furthermore, are reviews of just previously published Canadian poetry, novels, novellas, short stories and literary nonfiction in the core of the publication. What is striking is the tendency for the Comparative Review essay.

In addition, appear occasionally interviews, essays and special portraits of writers such as on PK Page (No. 117) or Lorna Crozier (No. 170). The online edition is supplemented by a monthly newsletter and the interviews can be downloaded in part as a podcast mp3 file.

Publication is Victoria, British Columbia at the University of Victoria. Currently, John Barton serves as editor in chief. A single issue currently costs 11.95 Canadian dollars, in terms of dollars digitally 20. The full text output has no. 70 of 1985 available online.

The name comes from the Malahat, one of the living on Vancouver Iceland First Nations of the Pacific coast of Canada. These are living at Victoria Saanich.

Awards and nominations

The Malahat Review has been over the years alone eight times nominated for the Western Magazine Award Foundation 's Magazine of the Year. 1993 could the literary magazine the price to decide for themselves.

22 authors of the Malahat were presented in the past decades as finalists in the list of National Magazine Awards Foundation; while they won three gold and six times the gold medal of that price. Short stories and their authors, which were first published in The Malahat Review, won six times the funded by the publishing house McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada Journey Prize and in 2000 was the Malahat Review Novella Prize winner The Deep by Mary Swan of O. Henry Award.

In addition, the literary magazine acts as a co-organizer, organizer and official publication in various literary awards such as the University of Victoria 50th Anniversary Prize, the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Open Season Award for Poetry, the Long Poem Prize for long poems and the Far Horizons Award for Poetry In contrast to many other Canadian literary prizes are also English-language writers from the United States or other countries may apply. The respective winners will win a cash prize as well as publication in the Malahat Review.

Outstanding authors

The Malhat Review published in 1988, the first short story by Yann Martel. Other editions presented the works of Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Susan Musgrave, Robert Bringhurst, Roo Borson, Mary Swan, Patricia Young and Barry Dempster.

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