Submitting to Grain
Grain Magazine, published four times per year, is an internationally acclaimed literary journal that publishes engaging, surprising, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists.
If you are interested in submitting your work to Grain, take a look at the following Submission Guidelines. If possible, read back issues of our magazine before submitting. Sample issues of the latest issue of Grain are available for $13.00 (including GST and postage). If you'd like to order a copy, go to the Subscriptions section of this website.
Grain has a nine-month reading period, September 1st to May 31st. Manuscripts postmarked and/or received between June 1st and August 31st will not be read. Please do not submit more than twice in one reading period (third and subsequent submissions will be returned, unread). If you have work currently under consideration by Grain, please do not submit again until you have received a response to that submission.
***Writing submitted by email will not be read.***
Send typed, unpublished material only (we consider work published on-line to be previously published). Simultaneous submissions will not be considered. Please only submit work in one genre at one time.
Poetry: Individual poems, sequences, or suites up to a maximum of 12 pages.
Fiction: 1 or 2 stories, to a maximum of 5000 words each (stories at the longer end of the word count must be of exceptional quality).
Literary non-fiction: To a maximum of 5000 words. The key here is "literary"--imaginative, inventive, culturally/critically relevant (no academic papers or reportage)....Surprise us.
Other writing: Queries for submissions of work in other forms, less easy to categorize forms, cross-genre work, are welcome.
Visual work: Mainly by invitation, though queries are welcome.
Sending work
All submissions will be read. Response time is typically from 3-6 months.
In order to receive a response, submissions must include either a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) with sufficient CANADIAN postage (sorry, US postage is not universally acceptable!), or, for US and International submissions, IRCs (International Reply Coupons). If you'd like to save on postage and paper, we will reply by email if you provide an email address for that purpose only.
Submissions must be typed in readable font (ideally 12 point, Times Roman or Courier), free of typos, printed on one side only. No staples. Your name and address MUST be on every page. Pieces of more than one page MUST be numbered.
Include a cover letter with all contact information, title(s) and genre of work you are submitting. Brief bio is optional.
Payment
All contributors, regardless of genre, are paid $50 per page to a maximum of $225, plus 2 copies of the issue in which their work appears. Visual work published inside the magazine (reproduced in black and white) is paid at the same page rate as text contributions. Cover images (full-colour) are paid at the current CAR/FAC rates.
Rights
Grain purchases first Canadian serial rights only. Copyright remains with the writer or artist.
Send Submissions To
Grain Magazine, PO Box 67, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 3K1, Canada
