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Queen's Quarterly is a Canadian magazine seeking accessible, distinctive fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and other writing on any topic relevant to contemporary life.

Response time info: within a week, sometimes two weeks

Read the full guidelines at queensu.ca↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: Payment determined upon acceptance and paid upon publication.

Open to: Canadian citizens, residents, and landed immigrants are eligible; non-Canadian submissions are also accepted subject to Canadian-content limits.

Seeks short stories on any topic with a singular voice, accessible ideas, and relevance to issues of common concern; maximum two stories, with a prose limit of around 3,000 words.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: Payment determined upon acceptance and paid upon publication.

Open to: Canadian citizens, residents, and landed immigrants are eligible; non-Canadian submissions are also accepted subject to Canadian-content limits.

Seeks essays on any topic with a singular voice, accessible ideas, and relevance to issues of common concern; prose pieces are limited to around 3,000 words.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: Payment determined upon acceptance and paid upon publication.

Open to: Canadian citizens, residents, and landed immigrants are eligible; non-Canadian submissions are also accepted subject to Canadian-content limits.

Seeks poetry on any topic with a singular voice, accessible ideas, and relevance to issues of common concern; submit a maximum of six poems.

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