About Us
"The thing could barely stand. Yet taken
from his mother and the barn smells
he still impressed with his pride,
with the promise of sovereignty in the way
his head moved to take us in. The fierce sunlight tugging the maize from the ground
licked at his shapely flanks. He was too young for all that pride."
- Irving Layton, "The Bull Calf"
K
ait Pinder and J. (Jeff) Weingarten first conceived of The Bull Calf in fall 2010, while they consumed their afternoon coffee on the lower field at McGill University. Kait’s casual suggestion, “why don’t we start a journal,” sparked their mutual desire to make something stand. Both editors imagined The Bull Calf as an accessible, academic, and diverse tri-annual collection of reviews and retrospectives. Since that time, Kait and Jeff have enlisted the help of several skilled and generous editors: Laura Cameron, Claudine Gelinas-Faucher, and Michèle Rackham Hall. Dedicated to scholarly reviews of both French and English Canadian fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, The Bull Calf is continuously in search of strong reviewers, writers looking to be reviewed, and talented editors. Please see the "Contact Us" section (on our website) or email one of the managing editors (listed below) if you wish to review for, propose your text for review in, or help edit our journal. (Jeff) Weingarten: [email protected]
Kait Pinder: [email protected]
