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Cannery Row Magazine

A Literary Journal . . . with Benefits

On Hiatus

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Short
Fiction

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Creative
Non
Fiction

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Essays
&
Articles

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  Books,
  Movies
  & Music

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Visual Arts
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 Cartoons 

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Can
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Worms

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Poetry
&
Musings

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Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses.

Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same  thing.

 - John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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  Born in Kingston - Made in Canada

Content:

Tanja Rabe

Managing Editor

Submissions

Arts Journalist

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John Jantunen
Editor
Book Critic
Author

About CRP

A Canadian Biopsy

"You live like gypsies," my mother complains frequently over the phone, "are you ever going to settle down?"

      There may well be a remnant of the Old World gypsy left in us to blame for our nomadic ways, yet moving around while scraping by on the creative fringe has filled our lives with intriguing people and places, an abundance of stories and few regrets.

From the weed-infused grunge culture of Vancouver in the 90's and Montreal's delightfully seedy East Side, to Guysborough, Nova Scotia, where maritime hospitality clashed with a de facto segregation reminiscent of the Southern States.

      Back to our home province of Ontario. Muskoka to catch up with family, then Guelph to raise our sons while John wrote and published his first books with ECW Press.

      A decade later northwards to Capreol, a CN rail hub at the edge of the wilderness teeming with characters to stock John's next book "Savage Gerry" (Spring 2021), followed by North Bay where drug dealers, addicts, the mentally ill and the homeless have taken center stage in its downtown streets to the score of sirens heralding a new age. (To be revisited in "Mason's Jar")

     Fed up with slumlords and northern winters, a retreat back south to Kingston amidst a global pandemic, potential socio-economic collapse and a world on fire; an apocalyptic cocktail served up with a slice of willful ignorance by our country's mainstream Media.

 

The Canada we've lived in over the past few decades has stood in stark contrast to the publicly endorsed myth of Canada the Good. Its biased agenda not only trades off basic human rights (water, air, shelter, food etc.) in favour of short term profits, sentencing Canadians that are deemed economically insignificant or disposable to a life that fosters despair, disabilities, drug addiction, homelessness and, increasingly, suicide. It also conspires to whitewash Canada's past and present social traumas by suppressing dissenting voices to the point where renowned advocates, authors and journalists act as brand managers, censuring themselves in fear of reprisals and professional oblivion. 

 

We are launching this magazine to provide an inclusive space for the marginalized stories in our communities. For all those tired of the stigma and abuse suffered by an escalating number of Canadians trapped within a system of poverty and racial discrimination. A system that harms the very people and land it has pledged to 'serve and protect'. A system that rewards little we ever learned in Kindergarten.

       Please share your voice so others will know they are not alone.

Kindness has no dollar sign attached to it; it is of no worth to the wealthy,           yet flourishes like weeds in the streets of the poor. 

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'My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

                                                      -Louis Riel, 1885

Submissions
        Submissions
 
canneryrowpress@gmail.com

Cannery Row Magazine wants you to raise your voice.

We are looking for creative and investigative storytelling in the form of word, music and graphic media (i.e. cartoons, photography, paintings). Submissions can be personal, political, social, environmental - humorous, dramatic, factual, caustic, gritty . . . in nature. Share what is really going on, in your life, in our communities, our cities, our country and beyond our borders with well-crafted stories and images that illuminate our true past, our present struggles and the road ahead. 

 

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.  -Albert Camus

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 Quotes

 for

 Rebels

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 Quotes

 for

 Writers

Submissions Guidelines:

Since Cannery Row Press is a free and not-for-profit start up publication, we regret not being able to offer monetary or other compensation for submitted and published materials at this time. In this context, we appreciate all content providers for their understanding and for sharing freely of their work. Submissions to CRP may be published elsewhere at any time and it is solely at the content provider's discretion to assure compliance with other publishers' terms and conditions.

   

Requirements for submitted works are as follows: Prose up to 5000 words (limit two stories for consideration) - poetry up to five pieces of 'reasonable' length (content considered before style) - Music limit of three songs incl. spoken word (attach text) - Visual Arts (Gallery) up to 12 images (photography, paintings) and cartoons limit of three. If submitting images to accompany text, please attach separately and provide detailed instructions on integration and layout in relation to written content. View the website and issues of Cannery Row Magazine as a guide to recommended submissions content.

     

CRP reserves the right to copy edit submitted content prior to publication for general design, structure, flow and accuracy. Content may be submitted and/or published under a pseudonym for personal or professional reasons. Due to the nature of this publication, CRP shall intentionally omit educational and socio-economic credentials of its content providers at its own discretion unless relevant for context (i.e. content relates to general occupation as in author/social worker/lawyer/scientist etc.) and publication shall be based solely on content merit.

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The more things change...
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And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. He said he was nervous and besides he wanted to see the country, smell the ground and look at grass and birds and trees, to savor the country, and there was no other way to do it save on foot. And people didn't like him for telling the truth. They scowled, or shook and tapped their heads, they laughed as though they knew it was a lie and they appreciated a liar. And some, afraid for their daughters or pigs, told him to move on, to get going, just not to stop near their place if he knew what was good for him.

And so he stopped telling the truth. He said he was doing it on a bet - that he stood to win a hundred dollars. Everyone liked him then and believed him.

     -  John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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Disclaimer

Disclaimer:

In accordance with "fair use" policies, this website contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Cannery Row Press makes this material available for educational and entertainment purposes to advance literary and social issues. Use of copyrighted material from this site extending beyond "fair use" must be with permission of the copyright owner (content provider).

 

The opinions expressed through its online publication do not necessarily reflect the views of Cannery Row Press/Magazine and viewing/posting/sharing its contents is done at the user's own risk and discretion. CRP is under no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review or edit its user content but reserves the right to remove offensive or hateful content.

 

CRP will not guarantee or be held responsible for accuracy or completeness of its content or be liable for any direct or indirect claims, damages, costs etc. (without limitations) resulting from the use of this website or any websites linked to or recommended by it.

 

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