Why Pagitica?

Another literary magazine? Is not the Canadian literary community already well served (did someone say overserved?) by a diverse range of quality literary reviews? To be sure… yet there is a gap.

We find ourselves at a unique juncture. The advent of the superstore, the advancement of software tools for professional desktop publishing, and the maturation of the Internet, taken together afford a distinct set of circumstances for an innovative approach to literary publishing. We at Pagitica have seized this new social and technological juncture as an opportunity to rethink and renew the concept of the literary journal.

A new concept

At heart we pursue the same goal as any other journal: to discover and foster the new voices of tomorrow. But we put this objective into a new context:

Editorial: Not just fiction and poetry… we publish much more. Lost and Found explores literary talents that have not gained the currency they deserve… perhaps forgotten, perhaps never even discovered. In Dialogue engages the luminaries of the day with in-depth, wide ranging interviews. And Art in Context highlights practitioners of other art forms, recognizing that the arts gain in strength through cross-fertilization.

Community: For Pagitica, the print periodical is the centrepiece of a web of relationships and events which form an artistic community — the Burnings, our gala events which break down the barriers between the arts; the Reading Series, the web sites, and more initiatives to come.

Design: We exploit the new tools of technology to raise the standards of design for the literary journal, in the belief that excellence of content should be reflected by its context.

Pagitica’s mandate

Our mandate is to expand and make more accessible the current and future coterie of Canadian Literature by creating a marketable forum to display the work of new and innovative young writers from around the world. Exploring fiction, poetry and fresh and provocative journalism, Pagitica is Canada's voice for new Literature.