filling Station magazine
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filling Station is a literary magazine published in Calgary, Alberta. Since 1994, filling Station has published three issues per year. Each issue includes poetry, fiction, interviews with writers, book reviews, art, and film reviews. The editorial board of the magazine has always been composed of volunteers, most of whom are writers or artists. The vast majority of emerging writers from Calgary have at one time volunteered on filling Station's editorial board.
filling Station publishes emerging and established writers, with a particular focus on emerging writers from Calgary. Many of the younger writers published in filling Station are students in the University of Calgary's creative writing program.
filling Station is one of the few literary magazines in Canada that publishes literature from other languages in translation. It is also one of the few literary magazines in Canada that receives no university funding.[1]
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[edit] History
The first issue of filling Station was published in 1994.
[edit] Events
In November 2003, filling Station began the flywheel reading series, featuring five readers each month. The flywheel reading series takes place at McNally Robinson booksellers.
In May 2004, filling Station hosted Calgary Blowout: Issue 30 Launch and New Gallery THING Art Auction, celebrating the publication of filling Station's 30th issue.
Each summer since 2005, filling Station hosts the Calgary Blowout, a three-day festival featuring writers living in Calgary or otherwise associated with the Calgary writing community.
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[edit] References
- ^ Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy mention filling Station's independent status in their book, Writing in our time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003).
