The Antigonish Review

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The Antigonish Review
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Winter 2022 cover
EditorDouglas Smith
Former editorsThomas Hodd
FrequencyQuarterly
Founded 1970 (1970-month)
Company St. Francis Xavier University
CountryCanada
Based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
LanguageEnglish
Website www.antigonishreview.com
ISSN 0003-5661

The Antigonish Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing new and established contemporary literary fiction, reviews, non-fiction articles/essays, translations, and poetry. Since 2005, the magazine runs an annual competition, the Sheldon Currie Short Fiction Contest. [1] The winner of the inaugural Sheldon Currie Prize was Nicholas Ruddock. [2] Since 2000, the magazine has also run a poetry competition, the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest.

The Antigonish Review was established in 1970 [3] [4] with long-term editor-in-chief R. J. MacSween, [5] [6] who was succeeded by George Sanderson. [7] [8] Thomas Hodd was editor until 2023. Doug Smith is currently editor.

Under MacSween's and Sanderson's editorship there was staunch support of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan from his early days. [9]

The Antigonish Review is credited with nurturing writing talent in Eastern Canada. [10] Besides fiction, poetry, and interviews, it publishes translations, book reviews, and review essays.

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