Category Archives: Small Magazine Matters

Are we *all* in it for love?

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Written by Rosalynn on March 30, 2010

Yesterday, I posted about how publishing a lit mag is not a great way to make money. Though obviously, I don’t live under a rock and thus have known for a while that things aren’t as cushy as they once were with the ‘big’ publishers–and my definition of ‘big’ means a publisher significantly larger than [...]

Also posted in The Future of the Book, True Confessions

For Passion or Profit?

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Written by Rosalynn on March 29, 2010

“Publishing books to make money…is a little like hanging out in a singles bar if you want to get married. It might work, but there are way better ways to accomplish your goal. If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything [...]

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Another Mighty Small Mag: Bywords

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Written by Rosalynn on February 2, 2010

Thanks to Amanda Earl for taking time out of (I imagine, thanks to the below!) an extraordinarily busy day to tell us all about Bywords. What does a day at the Bywords look like? Bywords.ca is a volunteer non profit organization with the volunteers working primarily on line from Australia, Toronto and Ottawa. There are [...]

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Circ School Diary

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Written by Melissa on January 28, 2010

If I had to use one word to describe Magazines Canada Circulation School at Niagara-On-The-Lake, it would be epic. Friday My train arrives in Niagara Falls around 10:30am.  I take a walk around the station in the hopes of finding a way to kill time, but there’s something post-apocalyptic about the area.  I settle in [...]

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Mighty Small Mag: The Puritan

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Written by Rosalynn on January 21, 2010

And on the heels of the CPF announcement, I meet a new small mag, The Puritan, by way of Melissa.  I’d really like to showcase all of our fellow small arts and literaries here on the blog before “changing market conditions” force us out of print, or out of publishing altogether.  If you’ve got a [...]

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Breaking News on the CPF

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Written by Rosalynn on January 20, 2010

Over at Canadian Magazines, D.B. Scott breaks the news that the guidelines and application forms for the new Canada Periodical Fund’s Aid to Publishers program are available online today.  The program has $75.5 million to disburse, and the application form is a simple, “one-time-only” two-pager—great news for the mags who qualify, but sadly, small arts [...]

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