| The Antigonish Review | |
| Editor: | Douglas Smith |
| Previous Editor: | Thomas Hodd |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| Company: | St. Francis Xavier University |
| Country: | Canada |
| Based: | Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Language: | English |
| 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.