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02/05/2024

Congratulations to issue 50 contributor Fawn Parker , whose poem 'Woof' has been nominated for the National Magazine Awards in the poetry category! https://magazine-awards.com/en/2024nominees/

You can read 'Woof' here: http://carouselmagazine.ca/c50-parker/

The National Media Awards Foundation (NMAF) is delighted to announce the nominees for the 47th annual National Magazine Awards. Our diverse roster of volunteer judges dedicated countless hours to e…

21/01/2024

💥Happy Sunday! Today, we are continuing to break down by section the contents of CAROUSEL 51 (our FINAL issue!) … which you can read in full for FREE at http://carouselmagazine.ca

Here’s a highlighting of some of the new issue’s content!

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⚡️ FICTION:
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– Kristin Burns
– Jeremy Colangelo
– Jessi MacEachern
– Jocelyn Tennant
… four exciting new prose works for you to enjoy!

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⚡️ FEATURED CONVERSATION:
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Acclaimed Canadian authors Jason Heroux and Jerrod Edson dive into the murky waters of speculative fiction for an illuminating conversation that bends the lens of reality and cracks open new worlds of possibilities for writers and readers.

20/01/2024

💥Here’s a break down the contents of CAROUSEL 51 … which you can read in full for FREE at http://carouselmagazine.ca

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Here’s a highlighting of some of the
new issue’s content! — POETRY by:
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– Sacha Archer
– Chelsea Margaret Bodnar
– nina jane drystek
– L Favicchia
– David Ly
– Mickey HaHa Mahan
– Rob McLennan
– Michael Pittard
– JC Reilly
– Lisa Richter
– Courtenay Schembri Gray Courtenay Schembri Gray
– Leanne Shirtliffe
– Natalie Wilkinson

… that’s 13 amazing poets — many of whom have never appeared in our pages!

20/01/2024

💥CAROUSEL 51, our brand new — and final! — issue, is now live — 👉 to read the issue in full for FREE, visit👉🏻👉🏼👉🏽👉🏾👉🏿 http://carouselmagazine.ca

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Fiction — Kristin Burns • Jeremy Colangelo • Jessi MacEachern • Jocelyn Tennant

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Poetry — Sacha Archer • Chelsea Margaret Bodnar • nina jane drystek • L Favicchia • David Ly • Mickey HaHa Mahan • Rob McLennan • Michael Pittard • JC Reilly • Lisa Richter • Courtenay Schembri Gray • Leanne Shirtliffe • Natalie Wilkinson

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Featured Interview — Jason Heroux & Jerrod Edson in conversation

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USEREVIEW 105-121 Compilation — featuring traditional, experimental and capsule book reviews by: Joanna Acevedo • Manahil Bandukwala • Leah Bobet • Hollay Ghadery • Jade Wallace

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27/12/2023

✨It's ! Today we feature the final review of the month (and of 2023!) by December Reviewer-in-Residence Deirdre Danklin: a traditional review of Jane V. Blunschi's debut novella MON DIEU, LOVE (TRP: The University Press of SHSU, 2023).

"I recommend this novella to anyone who has made a bad choice in love, to anyone who has ever lied to their sister and to anyone who has ever kind of thought that God had a message for them — or maybe not. It’s a fast read that will make you laugh, and it’s a deep read that will make you think about all the times you’ve let those close to you down," Danklin writes.

Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview146/

20/12/2023

✨It's ! Today we feature the second review of the month by December Reviewer-in-Residence Deirdre Danklin: a capsule review of J.A. Bernstein's chapbook of short personal essays GLASS ESSAYS (Variant Literature, 2023).

In this book, as Danklin writes, "Life can be a sharp piece of glass, but it also reflects light."

Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview145/

13/12/2023

✨It's ! Today we feature the first review of the month by December Reviewer-in-Residence Deirdre Danklin: a capsule review of Pirkko Saisio's novel THE RED BOOK OF FAREWELLS, translated by Mia Spangenberg (The Center for the Art of Translation, 2023).

"This book is written in an elliptical style that draws the reader closer as if whispering secrets," Danklin writes.

Read the full review on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview144/

06/12/2023

✨It's and today we're giving you a sneak peek of what our December Reviewer-in-Residence Deirdre Danklin will be up to!

This month, Danklin will be reviewing:
• Pirkko Saisio‘s novel THE RED BOOK OF FAREWELLS, translated by Mia Spangenberg (The Center for the Art of Translation, 2023)
• J.A. Bernstein‘s chapbook GLASS ESSAYS (Variant Literature, 2023)
• Jane V. Blunschi‘s debut novella MON DIEU, LOVE (TRP: The University Press of SHSU, 2023)

Find out more in the latest post on our blog: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/december2023-danklin/

04/12/2023

We're delighted to introduce our December Reviewer-in-Residence: returning CAROUSEL reviewer Deirdre Danklin!

Deirdre Danklin holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband, son and two cats. Her flash fiction and essays have been published in Hobart, Pithead Chapel and Jellyfish Review, among others. Her debut novella, CATASTROPHE, which won the 2021 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was nominated for a 2022 Shirley Jackson Award, was published by TRP: The University Press of SHSU. Danklin’s flash fiction chapbook, HOW TO START A COVEN, was published by Variant Literature in 2022. In her spare time, she reads nonfiction for Split Lip Magazine.

More at: http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/december2023-danklin/

30/11/2023

Announcing our nominees for the 2023 PUSHCART PRIZE!

• Abigail Chang's poem 'Affection'
• Fawn Parker's poem 'Woof'
• Michael Pittard's poem 'Poem in the Form of an Overgrown Garden'
• Lisa Richter's poem 'Hauntology'
• Glenn Clifton's short story 'Tap to Refresh'
• Jessi MacEachern's short story 'Observation's Vehicle'

You can, or will soon be able to, read all of our nominees' work online for free in issues 50 (out now) & 51 (forthcoming) on our website. Work from issue 50 is here: http://carouselmagazine.ca/issue50/

Good luck to all our nominees & thank you to EVERYONE with work in issues 50 & 51! You made the nominations process difficult, but you made the issues wonderful!

28/11/2023

✨Today we continue spotlighting individual POETRY contributors to issue 50! Next up are Nicola Vulpe’s poems, 'I've Stopped Thinking of Su***de' and 'The Cockroach.'

"I’ve stopped thinking of su***de,
there’s no point to it.

A year ago I noticed
a finger beginning to fade.
Then the hand, a few ribs,
the left side of my face," Vulpe writes.

You can check out Vulpe's poems, as well as the entire issue, in full for free online: http://carouselmagazine.ca/c50-vulpe/

27/11/2023

✨Today we continue spotlighting individual POETRY contributors to issue 50! Next up is Richard-Yves Sitoski’s poem, 'Spoon Theorist':

"Call me a slumming cloud
that missed the bus
home to the sky," Sitoski writes.

You can check out Sitoski's poem, as well as the entire issue, in full for free online: http://carouselmagazine.ca/c50-sitoski/