filling Station is fine

Hi folks,

Have been getting some inquiries about the health of filling Station. Thank you to those concerned, but no need to worry, the website is being maintained at the moment by our lovely webmaster and will be back up soon. The magazine is thriving, we had a great year last year and this year is shaping up to be a good one too. We're a veritable anomoly of Canadian literature publishing success. So yes, please, send us your submissions! We're always looking for good stuff. I in particular am invested in finding reviews, articles, interviews, and such. If you've never tried writing journalistic pieces, why not? Send send send.

If you are curious about work submitted and have not received a reply, please email editor@fillingstation.ca so that we will have your contact info to let you know. We do receive a large number of submissions relative to the small amount of space we have to publish in, so if you do experience rejection, please continue to submit - yes, selection is about quality, but seeing it from this angle, I know that it's also about odds, space, how submissions fit with other submissions, volume, etc.

Thanks for caring about filling Station! Please keep reading it, sending things to it, and do get your brains in gear and send me some journalistic stuff will you? You can definitely take creative license about it, nevermind what old T.S. Eliot says in that regard.. go ahead, interview dead people, review books that came out 100 years ago, write an article about a reading series you went to in the future when we wore our brains suspended in liquid-filled diving helmets because global warming has made our skulls too hot for everyday use. My sense of humour wants to make mad mad love to your extra cheesy brand metaphors.

Laurie