Flare is a Canadian fashion and beauty magazine for women. They cover fashion, beauty, art, décor, culture, film, food and literature. They welcome pitches from experienced writers who are familiar with their tone and content. Payment reports suggest that they pay up to $0.80 per word. To learn more, read their writers’ guidelines.
Geist is a Canadian magazine which “represents a convergence of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, art, reviews, little-known facts of interest, cartography and the legendary Geist crossword puzzle.” They require a Canadian connection for all non-contest submissions. However, for contest submissions, such a connection is not required. It is important to note that they do not accept online submissions. The manuscripts can be sent by mail to their editorial board. Our sources suggest that they pay their writers 22 cents per word. For more information, visit their submission guidelines.
Prairie Fire is a Canadian journal of innovative writing that is published four times a year. Each issue is a “mix of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.” For Prairie Fire magazine, the print rate for prose is $0.10 per word and for poetry it is $40 per poem. The online rate for interviews is $0.10 per word. Further details about their rates of payment can be found here. While their submission guidelines can be found here.
Kasma Science Fiction Magazine is a free online science fiction magazine based in Canada. They prefer short science fiction of 1000 to 5000 words, though they also consider longer stories and in some rare cases, the shorter ones. They do not publish poetry. They pay their writers a flat rate of $25 (Canadian dollars) per story. They do not pay for blog posts. To get more details, visit their submission guidelines
On Spec is a Canadian quarterly magazine of speculative fiction. They mainly feature work by Canadian writers in the genre they call “fantastic” literature. For poems of 4 to 100 lines, they pay $50. For short-short stories of under 1000 words, they also pay $50. They accept fiction of up to 6,000 words. The rates vary depending on the length of fiction. For example, the rate for 1,000 to 2,999 words is $125, for 3,000 to 4,999 words, it is $175 and for 5,000 to 6,000 words, it is $200. All these rates are in Canadian dollars. Further information can be found here.
The Walrus is a Canadian general interest magazine that “provokes new thinking and sparks conversation on matters vital to Canadians.” They publish short essays, long-form narrative journalism, features, essays, fiction and poetry. Reports suggest that they pay their writers an average of $0.48 per word. To find out more, visit their submission guidelines.
The Hamilton Review of Books publishes twice annually, in Spring and Fall, and accepts work by Canadian writers. They publish book reviews and long-form essays on works of Hamiltonian, Canadian and international fiction, nonfiction, poetry and graphic novels. Reviews are 500-750 words and pay CAD50. Essays are 1,500-5,000 words and pay CAD75, and focus on a literary subject; authors may, for example, engage with a book’s subject matter as a jumping-off point for a thematic, personal essay. Details here.
Westworld (WW) magazine (the largest-circulation publication in Western Canada) is primarily a travel publication: its editorial content includes local, regional, and international travel stories. WW buys First North American rights for the WW magazine network – all editions (WW may bank a story for one year or more). Payment includes $50 for use on the BCAA, AMA, CAA Saskatchewan and/or CAA Manitoba websites. WW writer fees start at 60 cents per word (85 cents a word in the B.C. edition). To learn more, read writers’ guidelines: https://files.caask.ca/Writer%20Guidelines.pdf
Abilities is Canada’s foremost cross-disability lifestyle magazine. Topics include travel, health, sport, recreation, careers, education, transportation, housing, social policy, relationships, technology, family life, movie/book reviews, personality profiles, events and conferences. The magazine has a conversational tone. They’re not looking for personal essays, but encourage writers to draw on their experiences to illustrate a broader topic. They pay a kill fee if negotiated in advance. They pay $50 to $325. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.
Briarpatch is a Canadian magazine that covers "current events, grassroots activism, electoral politics, economic justice, ecology, labour, food security, gender equity, indigenous struggles, international solidarity, and other issues of political importance." They welcome pitches from freelancers. They pay $100 for profiles, short essays, and parting shots (less than 1,500 words). They pay $200 for feature stories (1,500 to 2,000 words) and $300 for research-based articles and investigative reportage (2,500 to 3,000 words). To learn more, read their submission guidelines.