Grain Magazine - General Submissions
From Grain Magazine
An annual (September 15 - June 15) submission window from a Saskatchewan-based literary magazine for poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, and short plays, comics, translations or experimental/hybrid work; no fee for Canadian writers, a small waivable fee for international writers, and a per-page payment to contributors.
- Amount
- Not stated
- Who can apply
- Individual artists
- Where you must live
- Not stated
- Art forms
- Writing
- Application fee
- None for Canadian writers; page: "writers submitting from outside of Canada will incur a $5.00 CA reading fee" (waivable: "a limited number of fee waivers per quarter... please email... to inquire")
- Kind
- Call for art
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Eligibility
Page: accepts poetry (max 6 pages), fiction (max 3,500 words), literary nonfiction (max 3,500 words), and “short plays, comics, translations, experimental/hybrid works” (max 3,500 words or 5 pages). No citizenship or residency requirement stated for text submissions. Visual work for the cover is accepted “mainly by invitation” and queries are welcome only “by artists living in Canada.”
What to send
Submit via the magazine's online submission system during the open window (September 15 - June 15 each year); a separate window for historically under-represented and/or marginalized communities runs June 16 - September 14.
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Source: https://grainmagazine.ca/submit (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on September 28, 2026.
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