Thank you for your interest in Wascana Review. Currently, submissions should be sent to the editor:

Dr. Kathleen Wall
Editor
Wascana Review
Department of English
University of Regina
Regina SK S4S 0A2

If you include your email on your correspondence and don't want your manuscript back, there's no need to send an SASE; we will get in touch with you by email. If you need to have your manuscript returned, please include an SASE or international reply coupons.

 Once we're up and running online, all work will be submitted electronically.  Please watch this page for instructions. 

Poetry: We like to publish several poems by the same author so that readers can get a better feel for the writer's work, so feel free to send us a handful of poems. At the same time, however, our readers (all of whom teach in the English Department at the University of Regina) have plenty of other things to do, so if you want careful consideration of your work, please don't send more than 5 or 6 poems. Also, please wait for a reply before sending more work. We try to respond to authors' work within 3 months, but this is often not possible for manuscripts sent in the fall.

We're looking for carefully-crafted poetry which indicates that the writer is well-versed in the resources of poetry in English. At the same time, we like to hear an individual voice. We don't publish poetry that's derivative or that only asks for a single reading.

Fiction: We're looking for all the various arcs of the short story, from the classic Aristotelian to the more free-floating episodic. But regardless of the shape, we're still looking for surprising insight into the human condition and craft that is always reaching beyond the obvious. We try to respond to authors' work within 3 months, but this is often not possible for manuscripts sent in the fall.

Nonfiction: In the past, Wascana Review largely published critical analyses of poetry and short fiction, and we will continue to do so. We are looking for essays that take a fresh approach. The editor is willing to help writers dealing with innovative ideas reach an audience. We do not publish personal essays that are memoirs or meditations.

In conjunction with the inception of the Creative Writing M.A. at the University of Regina, as well as with a more general social interest in creativity, Wascana Review is also seeking nonfiction essays that treat the pedagogy of creative writing or the creative process. Please see the call for papers above (What's New). Our interest in this topic will be ongoing.

Reviews: It's been impossible not to notice how major publications like The Globe and Mail are cutting back on reviews; as a consequence, authors who publish with small presses are not getting the critical attention they deserve. This means, in turn, that the conversation about what we value as readers and writers is profoundly curtailed. For this reason, we're turning our critical attention to work published by small presses, initially in the prairie provinces.

All the reviews will be archived on our website so that it's easy for authors to get the feedback that fosters their growth as writers and for readers to discover the gems that are published by small presses committed to work that's fresh, unpredictable, risky, and exciting. We'd like to help keep this critical conversation about contemporary writing alive.