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West Coast Line Subscription Rates

Please note: our online ordering service is currently under construction.

West Coast Line publishes four times a year, in spring, summer, fall and winter.

In Canada

Single Issue: $ 15.00 CDN
Yearly subscription for students: $20.00 CDN
Yearly subscription for individuals: $40.00 CDN
Yearly subscription for institutions: $60.00 CDN

In the U.S.A.

Single Issue: $15.00 US
Yearly subscription for students: $20.00 US
Yearly subscription for individuals: $40.00 US
Yearly subscription for institutions: $60.00 US

Outside North America

Yearly subscription for students: $20.00 US
Yearly subscription for individuals: $40.00 US
Yearly subscription for institutions: $60.00 US

Postage is included in the subscription price; the journal is distributed by surface mail. Subscription services receive a discount. We accept Visa.

Subscriptions (including backdated subscriptions) are accepted at any time for a one or two year period at the above rates.

Refunds for cancellations will be prorated; claims will be processed up to six months after the mailing of an issue.

Volume 29/3 (Winter 95/96) includes an author/artist index of issues ten to eighteen; and volume 26/3 (Winter 1992-3) an index of issues one to nine (1990-1992); there are no separate indices or supplements, no additional formats (CD-ROM, microform, etc.), and no memberships.

Our GST registration number is R118520725; our ISSN number is 1182-4271.

Address queries to Michael Barnholden, Managing Editor

Tel: 778-782-4988, fax: 778-782-5737, email: wcl@sfu.ca

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Submission Guidelines

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West
Coast

LINE Submission Guidelines

 

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GUIDELINES
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West
Coast Line publishes work by writers and artists who are experimenting 
with or expanding the boundaries of conventional forms and contexts.  We
are interested in work engaged with problems  of representation, race,
culture, gender, sexuality, technology, media, urban/rural spaces, nature, and
language.  We advise those considering submitting work to first familiarize
themselves with the journal, and with the work of our recent contributors.  


Recently we have published poetry by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Wayde
Compton, Dan Farrell, Max Gadd, Hiromi Goto, Erin Mouré, Lisa Robertson,
Fred Wah; essays by Di Brandt, Margot Leigh Butler, Peter Culley, Paul Kelley,
Scott Mc Farlane, Larissa Lai, Roy Miki, Janice Williamson, Rita Wong; visual
art by David Garneau, Laiwan, Ashok Mathur, Monique Mees, Cindy Mochizuki, Chick
Rice, Jan Wade.

 

Submissions
desired
:


1. Mixed-genre: polyphonic texts, bibliographies, edited letters and
manuscripts, text/image-based translations, book-installations, film/video stills
w/wo text.

 

2.
Poetry: “avant-garde,” experimental and linguistically innovative
writing, extended and serial forms, poetics, excerpts from long-poems; translations
of contemporary sub-altern

 

3.
Fiction: Please note that WCL very rarely publishes short-stories. When
we do, we are looking especially for formally innovative and experimental work
(up to 5,000 words).

 

4.
Critical prose: please send us a query before submitting critical work,
or if you are interested in writing a review.

 

5.
Visual Art: please send us a query before submitting visual art.

 

Please
note
:


our annual reading period is now June 1st to August 31st. Submissions
received outside this period will be returned unread


we do not accept electronic submissions (disk or email)


a self-addressed envelope with Canadian postage or an International Postal Response
coupon should accompany submissions. American stamps are not valid in Canada
we cannot respond to submissions without return postage


copyright reverts to the author after publication of the issue


payment: $10 per page (min. $50; max $200) + contributors copies; covers: $150


payment is made after publication


donations of $35 or more receive a subscription and an official tax receipt.

 

Still
interested? Please address submissions to:

 

Attn:
Submissions

West
Coast Line
EAA 2027
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
CANADA
 

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September 20th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

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WEST
COAST LINE

6079 Academic Quadrangle
8888 University Drive
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada

778-782-4988
778-782-5737 fax

wcl@sfu.ca

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Current Issue

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West Coast LINE 54 41.2 (Fall 2007)

Cover Image Elizabeth Zvonar, Two Faces (part human and mostly supernatural). 2006

Contributors

Lawrence Aronsen

Chinmoy Banerjee

Julian Benedict

Mark Jaskela

Danielle La France

Larissa Lai

Camille Martin

ryan andrew murphy

Meredith Quartermain

Rhoda Rosenfeld

Nancy Shaw

Catriona Strang

Jacqueline Turner

Maged Zaher

Elizabeth Zvonar

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September 20th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

West Coast LINE 54

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West Coast LINE 54 41.2 (Fall 2007)

Cover Art: Elizabeth Zvonar

Cover Image Elizabeth Zvonar, Two Faces (part human and mostly supernatural). 2006

Contributors

Lawrence Aronsen

Chinmoy Banerjee

Julian Benedict

Mark Jaskela

Danielle La France

Larissa Lai

Camille Martin

ryan andrew murphy

Meredith Quartermain

Rhoda Rosenfeld

Nancy Shaw

Catriona Strang

Jacqueline Turner

Maged Zaher

Elizabeth Zvonar

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September 8th, 2008 at 4:52 am