''filling Station'' is an experimental
literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...
published in
Calgary, Alberta
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, founded in 1993. ''filling Station'' publishes three issues per year filled with innovative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews,
book review
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A book review may be a primary source, opinion piece, summary review or scholarly revie ...
s, and visual art. By consistently providing a contrast to more traditional literary and arts journals, ''filling Station'' remains unique among literary magazines both in Canada. The
editorial board
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Mass media
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of the magazine has always been composed of volunteers, most of whom are writers or artists. Many emerging writers from Calgary have at one time volunteered on ''filling Stations board or editorial collective.
''filling Station'' is one of the few literary magazines in Canada that publishes literature from other languages in translation. It is also one of the few literary magazines in Canada that receives no university funding.
History
Created in Calgary in 1993 by a group of
University of Calgary
The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being ins ...
students who wanted a magazine independent from the university and separate from "Dandelion", and with more freedom about what, and whom, they could publish, ''filling Station'' has been pushing the boundaries ever since.
''filling Station'' has published not only emerging writers, but also those well-established, such as George Bowering,
Anita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is a Canadian writer of Indian descent. Born in Rourkela, Odisha, India, to a South Indian Kannada-speaking family, she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia Polytechnic in Bombay. She e ...
,
Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto (born December 31, 1966 Chiba-ken, Japan) is a Japanese-Canadian writer, editor, and instructor of creative writing.
Life
Goto was born in Chiba'ken, Japan in 1966 and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. They lived on the w ...
,
, Christian Bök,
bill bissett, Suzette Mayr, and Marilyn Dumont.
Events
From 2005 to 2009, ''filling Station'' hosted the annual Calgary Blowout, a three-day festival featuring writers living in Calgary or otherwise associated with the Calgary writing community.
In November 2003, ''filling Station'' began the flywheel reading series held monthly at Pages Books on Kensington.
References
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External links
filling Station's websiteRecordings of filling Station are available online in the Unarchiving the Margins Collection at Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
1993 establishments in Alberta
Magazines established in 1993
Mass media in Calgary
Poetry magazines published in Canada
Triannual magazines published in Canada
Magazines published in Alberta