West Coast LINE

West
Coast
LINE Submission 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:

 

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Submissions

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