Literary Magazines

Burnside Review, a really self determining literary journal from Portland, Oregon, gets its name from the street that runs the length of the city and divides it in two. Each issue is filled with poetry, an interview, book reviews, and single featured short story. Editor Sid Miller says “we love poetry that surprises, finds beauty in really unexpected places and that breaks your heart”

Past contributors include, Norman Dubie, Larissa Szporluk, Martha Ronk, Alan Shapiro, Linda Bierds, Ben Lerner, Paul Guest, Brenda Hillman, Ralph Angel and Alberto Rios.

“Burnside Review, finally, signifies a fresh kind of light. It’s a brittle sort of light, for sure. No grand gestures are made and a wry sense of human failing twinkles through, rather than a garish sense of wickedness. Patterns gather but are not imposed with an iron nib. The reach is not wide, but it knows what is has got. In fact, it resembles nothing ever seem, quite” Douglas Spangle.

Brick is A Literary Journal. Called “one of the greatest, if not the greatest, journals of ideas published in the English speaking world” by Russell Banks, Brick is one of Canada’s oldest and generally respected literary journal, edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Esta Spalding, Michael Helm and Rebecca Silver Slayter. Since its launch in 1977, Brick has played a unique role, both in Canada and outside, gathering a cross section of national and international, known and fresh literary voices in a wide ranging conversation of arts, culture, and literature. Publisher Michael Redhill describes the magazine as “a dream dinner party where writers and readers share a magnificent feast of ideas.”

As the late poet Robert Creeley thought, “Brick is a reader’s and writer’s magazine, that rare ground of a usual interest and exchange. It’s a remarkable bastion against the blurs and distractions of the all too-familiar alternatives. Here reading always wins.”