Welcome to Grain Magazine
Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, diverse, and challenging writing and art by some of the best Canadian and international writers and artists. Every issue features superb new writing from both developing and established writers. Each issue also highlights the unique artwork of a different visual artist. Grain has garnered national and international recognition for its distinctive, cutting-edge content and design.
"All the work in Grain will follow you around for days after you’ve closed the cover."
—Sima Rabinowitz, NewPages.com
"Kudos [to Grain] for adding some freshness, thought, and sheer attention to the process of literary journals, seamlessly blending poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in a way that puts the writing itself first and foremost while creating each issue…"
—rob mclennan's blog
Whose company do you want your writing to keep? "Grain is the brain of literary Canadians."
—Jeanne Randolph
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Grain Volume 39 No 1, IMPOSTER, is coming to a newsstand near you! To get a peek at the new cover, click here!
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Grain Volume 38 No 4, Summer 2011, TRUTHS AND LIES, is officially SOLD OUT! Read the details here!
OCTOBER, 20 2011
Huge congrats to Zsuzsi Gartner for making the Giller short list(!!!) with her book, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, which features fiction first published in Grain!
AUGUST 9, 2011
Grain announces the winners of the 23rd Annual Short Grain (with Variations) Writing Contest! Find out who won here...
JULY 20, 2011
See the cover for Grain's Summer 2011 issue, Truths and Lies--this cover is hotter than a Canadian heat wave! Art by Ray Fenwick! See the cover here...
JUNE 21, 2011 - NEW
Grain takes home two Western Magazine Awards for non-fiction!... Full story here...
MAY 11, 2011 - NEW
Check out the cover of Grain's upcoming Spring 2011 issue, Honeysuckle! Art by Chris Kuzma!... See the full cover here...
MAY 4, 2011
Grain recieves WMA and NMA nominations, and congratulations to recent Grain contributors Garth Martens, Shane Rhodes, and Steven Ross Smith!... Read more...
MARCH 23, 2011
Congratulations to recent Grain contributors Garth Martens, Jonathan Ball, and
Jeanne Randolph, who are making waves of their own!... Read more...
MARCH 4, 2011
Don't miss out! Less than one month left to enter Grain's 23rd Annual Short Grain (with Variations) Writing Contest... Read more...
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Sneak a peek at the cover to Grain's latest issue, out later this month... Read more...
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Grain struts its stuff at the 2011 AWP ((Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Annual Conference. Read more...
Jonathan Ball's Haiku Horoscopes to be reprinted in Geist! Read more...
Zsuzsi Gartner story to appear in Best Canadian Fiction 2011! Read more...
Girlwood, new poetry by Jennifer Still, out soon! Read more...
Congratulations again to Krista Foss, finalist for the 2010 Journey Prize! Read more...
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Magazines Canada goes live with Buy 2, Get 1 FREE! Read more...
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
23rd Annual Short Grain Contest guidelines posted! Read more...
AUGUST 9, 2010
Winners of Grain Magazine’s 22nd Short Grain (with Variations) Contest Announced! Read more...
