| 29 June 2009
Filling Station Magazine is a literary and arts magazine created in Calgary, publishing 3 issues per year and hosting a number of literary events including our Flywheel Reading Series (the first Thursday of every month at Pages) and the Blow Out! Festival. The magazine is available via subscription, in Calgary at Pages Books on Kensington, and is distributed through Magazines Canada to both independent and chain bookstores throughout Canada. Filling Station is always accepting submissions. Our only mandate is to publish innovative & original poetry, fiction, literary journalism, non-fiction and fine art.
Poetry • Short Stories • Non-Fiction Screenplays • Scripts Photography • Fine Arts • Film • Views & Reviews
Find filling Station at the following bookstores:
McNally Robinson in Calgary, Winnipeg and Saskatoon;As well as select Chapters and Indigo stores across Canada.
| Calgary: Pages Books on Kensington With the Times Billy's News Daily Globe News Edmonton: Greenwoods' Bookshoppe The Front Page Canmore: Cafe Books Pop'lar Books Bentley's Books Vancouver: Does Your Mother Know? Duthie Books 4th Avenue University of British Columbia |
Toronto: Other: |
- filling Station is distributed by the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association and through the literary titles distribution program of the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association.
Brief History:
| 1994 | Filling Station Publications Society established Issues #1, 2 |
| 1995 | Issues #3, 4, 5 Produces 2 spoken word tapes and 1st chapbook Founds Audible Mutterings – CJSW radio show on literature and the spoken word |
| 1996 | Issues # 6, 7, 8 Received first funding grant |
| 1997 | Issues #9, 10, 11/12 Publishes 1st (and only) double issue |
| 1998 | Issues 11/12, 13, 14 New art director & 1st colour cover |
| 1999 | Issues # 15, 16, 17 |
| 2000 | Issues #18, 19, 20 Receives funding from Canada Council |
| 2001-02 | Issues #21-26 |
| 2003 | Issues #27, 28, 29 Establishes monthly flywheel reading series |
| 2004 | Issues #30, 31, 32 Donates archive to Simon Fraser University Special Collections & Rare Books |
| 2005 | Issues #33, 34, 35 Establishes the BLOW-OUT! Literary Festival |
| 2006 | Issues #36, 37, 38 Returns to perfect-binding with card covers Creates Visual Section |
| 2007 | Issues #39, 40, 41 |
| 2008 | Issues #42, 43, 44 Adds first Small Press Book & Arts Fair to the BLOW-OUT! Literary Festival Begins annual chapbook series with Collective Collection #1 Joins Calgary Professional Arts Alliance Establishes Marketing Department Establishes SPANC - Small Press Action Network Calgary Re-designs magazine (no more sections!) and website Sponsors CJSW 90.9 campus radio program Writer’s Block Holds first Blow-Out Art Show & Sale as part of Blow-Out fest |
Structure: Not-for-profit Society registered with the Government of Alberta
Funding: filling Station Publications Society is grateful for funding awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts & the Calgary Arts Development Authority.
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