The Malahat Review

Kieran Kalls Rice, whose piece “Héyeqwels” appears in issue #233, talks with us about cultural theft and reclamation, expanding a short story into a longer work, and how the words of elders impact how you think, perceive, and write.

Link to the full interview: www.malahatreview.ca/interviews/r...

Jason Pearce chats with us about humour in dark fiction, meeting people and communities from across Turtle Island, and targeting the notion that institutionalized religion is somehow more legitimate than Indigenous tradition.

Link to the full interview: www.malahatreview.ca/interviews/p...

Jayli Wolf, whose poem “goose tales” appears in our winter issue 233, talks with us about writing as a way to listen to yourself, when to end a poem, and allowing personal and cultural history to inform how you work.

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The Malahat Review | Submission Guidelines The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and…

From February 14th-28th—or until our submission cap is reached for the month—we'll be accepting international (including US) submissions in poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction!

Canadian citizens & PRs are welcome to send us regular submissions from January 1st-June 30th.

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❗️ Join us TOMORROW for an evening of poetry, Afro-diasporic music, & history!

🎟️ free to all
🗓️ Tuesday Feb.10
⏰️ 7:30pm-9pm
📍 UVic, Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
🎸 Sonnet L'Abbé & Nick Peck

www.uvic.ca/significant-...

The Malahat Review The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and…

Hayden Park, winner of 2025's Constance Rooke CNF Prize with her piece, “The First Law of Adoptee Physics,” to be featured in our upcoming spring issue #234, talks with us about adoption narratives and how dissonance isn’t a mistake.

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The Malahat Review The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and…

“The poem knew the ending it needed, and was waiting for me, and for the right time for me to discover it.”

Jenna Timmons-Oikawa chats with us about stolen land and stolen people and using colour to evoke emotion.

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The Malahat Review Issue 232 The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and…

📬️ Our special winter issue 233 Inhale/Exhale: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling is here!

❄️ guest edited by @richardvancamp.bsky.social
❄️ cover art by Kristi Bridgeman
❄️ poetry, fiction, cnf, art, & more

Congrats to our three Open Season Awards winners!

🌿 poetry: Cassandra Myers
🌿 fiction: @andreabishop.bsky.social
🌿 cnf: Stephanie Harrington

Thanks to judges Manahil Bandukwala, H. Felix Chau Bradley, Shane Neilson, & our valued staff & volunteers for their work.

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December 2025 newsletter issue 12, volume 22

Did you catch our December newsletter? Read interviews with Novella Prize judges & an issue 232 contributor, info on our upcoming issue 233 launch party, and more! open.substack.com/pub/malahatr...