''The Antigonish Review'' is a quarterly

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 ...

publishing new and established contemporary

literary fiction Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction or serious fiction is a label that, in the book trade, refers to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction); or, otherwise, refers to novels that are ch ...

, reviews, non-fiction articles/

essay An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...

s, translations, and poetry. Since 2005, the magazine runs an annual competition, the Sheldon Currie Short Fiction Contest. The winner of the inaugural Sheldon Currie Prize was Nicholas Ruddock. Since 2000, the magazine has also run a poetry competition, the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. ''The Antigonish Review'' was established in 1970 with long-term

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

R. J. MacSween, who was succeeded by George Sanderson. The current editor is Thomas Hodd. Under MacSween's and Sanderson's editorship there was staunch support of communications theorist

Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his ...

from his early days. ''The Antigonish Review'' is credited with nurturing writing talent in Eastern Canada.

Danila Botha Danila Botha is a Canadian author and novelist. She has published two short story collections, with a third to be published in 2024 and two novels, with the second to be published in 2025. Personal life and work Botha was born in Johannesbu ...

; Weekend Post. "What it means to write from the coasts; Down East, they're 'uniquely hard to discourage'." ''National Post''. 30 Apr. 2011: WP13. eLibrary. Web. 29 Jun. 2011. Besides fiction, poetry, and interviews, it publishes translations, book reviews, and review essays.

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