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CANCELLED: Tracey McKinley’s session on Defining and Distinguishing Your Brand Feb. 2/19

Upcoming Magazine Submission Periods and Deadlines as of January 10, 2019

Found! A Beginner’s Approach to SEO for Magazine Publishers

How to use a better understanding of SEO to increase the online discoverability of your magazine’s website.

Don’t miss Tracey McKinley’s Session on Defining and Distinguishing Your Brand, Saturday Feb. 2, 2019!

Increase your understanding of essential brand marketing principles and take away tips on how to improve and enhance your magazine's brand at this 3-hour session in Vancouver.

Subscription Sales: How to Maximize Your Magazine’s Impact – Workshop, January 31, 2019

Tracey McKinley presents the best ways to sell subscriptions for maximum returns and the offers and messages that help to ramp up your results. at this 3-hour workshop in Vancouver. Register now to save!

Creative BC Launches Magazine Publishers Travel Support Program

MagsBC and Magazines Canada member magazine publishers may apply for a 50% reimbursement of eligible costs to attend conferences between April 1/18 to March 31/19. These may include travel costs, design and printing of promotional materials, administration and overhead.

Publishing Unbound: an evening on the future of publishing, Feb. 9/18

Publishing Unbound is a public reading and reception on inclusivity and accountability in Canadian magazine and book publishing.

Ijeoma Oluo of The Establishment Talks About Cultural Appropriation on October 26/17

VSO School of Music, 843 Seymour St., Vancouver BC

Video: Resisting ‘CanLit’: West Coast Indigenous Writers

Features Joanne Arnott, Gunargie O'Sullivan and Larry Nicholson.

Resisting “CanLit”: West Coast Indigenous Writers, Sept. 24 11:55 a.m. Vancouver

Joanne Arnott, Gunargie O'Sullivan, and Larry Nicholson will share their experiences and insights at this panel, organized by MagsBC for WORD Vancouver.

MagNet 2017: Queering the Media: The Making of a Magazine for LGBTQ+ Women

A report on the session on Lez Spread the Word (LSTW) magazine by Natasha Sanders-Kay, MagsBC Board Member.

MagNet 2017 Session: Because It’s 2017: Living Diversity at Your Magazine

A report on the panel by Natasha Sanders-Kay, MagsBC Board Member.

Jennifer Landels, Managing Editor of Pulp Literature Magazine

"Turning pixels on the screen to something beautiful you can touch, feel, and read in the bathtub never gets old."

MagsBC Presents Inclusiveness Panel at WORD Vancouver

MagsBC board member Natasha Sanders-Kay has organized a panel at WORD on Sunday Sept. 25 @ 3:40 p.m. called "Inclusive Magazine Publishing: Barriers and Strategies for Writers and Publishers."

Allan Cho, Executive Editor of Ricepaper Magazine

"We put many writers on the map who otherwise might have slipped through the cracks of the mainstream literary presses. No book publisher was going to give out a contract if you had no short story or poem published in a lit mag."

Delores Broten, Editor of The Watershed Sentinel

"I think the world of Canadian publishing is a wonderful experience. It may not be lucrative, but it is a community of fascinating people. The secret is to not let the economy worry you!"