Tips to get your submissions noticed by Literary Magazines
Shelf Life Books
Date: April 1, 2026
Time: 7 pm
Location: Shelf Life Books (1302 4 St SW #100)
We’re excited to present our ninth Industry Night event, Tips to get your submissions noticed by Literary Magazines. Join us for an informative discussion with representatives from FreeFall Magazine, Canthius Magazine, filling Station Magazine and The Ex-Puritan.
Industry nights allow readers, writers and anyone interested in books and publishing to receive information from a panel of writers and experts. They involve a panel discussion surrounding the industry and an audience Q&A. Each panel offers insight into specific aspect of the industry, with panel members speaking to different experiences and levels of expertise.
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About the Magazines and Our Panelists:
Samantha Jones is a writer, editor, and earth scientist based in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary, Alberta). She is Black Canadian and white settler, with roots in Nova Scotia, Québec and Ontario. Her poetry collection, Attic Rain (NeWest Press), won the 2025 Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry and was an Alberta Literary Awards finalist. She recently co-edited I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis (Roseway Publishing). Sam joined the Canthius Editorial Board in 2022.
Canthius Magazine is an intersectional feminist magazine that publishes poetry and prose by writers of marginalized gender identities, including trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, agender, cis women, genderqueer, GNC and intersex writers.
Ryanne Kap is a Chinese Canadian writer from Strathroy, Ontario. They’ve published in places like Augur, Canthius, Grain, The Rumpus and Maisonneuve, and their most recent chapbook was shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award. They are the Editor-in-Chief of The Ex-Puritan and a PhD candidate in English at the University of Calgary.
The Ex-Puritan began in 2007 as The Puritan Literary Magazine, an independently funded print journal dedicated to publishing fiction, essays and interviews in Ottawa, Ontario and was sold in bookstores across the city. In its early years, The Puritanwas Ottawa’s only quarterly prose journal. After a brief hiatus, the magazine returned to publishing, now in the form of an online magazine run from Toronto. Since expanding its mandate to include poetry, reviews, and experimental work, The Ex-Puritan now seeks to publish the best in all forms of writing.
Joni Doornenbal is a full-time radio enthusiast and community builder, holding an MA in Writing, Editing and Mediating from the University of Groningen. She is the current Managing Editor for Filling Station magazine.
filling Station Magazine – Since its incorporation in 1993, filling Station has encouraged dialogue among local and national writers through publication of their work. The magazine is dedicated to publishing high-quality experimental literature and the professionalization of its volunteer members.
Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate emerita of Calgary (2016-18). She was the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award for literary contributions to Alberta in 2022. She is the senior acquisitions editor (poetry) at Frontenac House Press. She is a Walrus talker, a TEDX talker, and she a past Calgary Public Library Author in Residence (2016). Her most recent book is The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021) won the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award for best book of Alberta poetry and has been translated into Italian La Cattiva Moglie (iQdB). Her latest essay introduces Hunger: The Poems of Susan Musgrave (Wilfred Laurier Press. 2025).
Freefall Magazine is a literary magazine based in Calgary, AB. In 2008 Micheline Maylor and Lynn C. Fraser took over publication of the magazine and created the FreeFall Literary Society of Calgary, a non-profit group. Freefall Magazine publishes two issues a year with one issue dedicated to the Annual Prose and Poetry Contest. Their mandate is to encourage the voices of new, emerging, and established Canadian writers while providing a platform to be proud of for their quality work.
