The Canadian Writer's Market. 10th ed.

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

This is the latest edition of what has become to many aspiring Canadian
writers an essential reference book. Waller conceived and wrote the
original guide; this edition was researched by Jem Bates. Besides
potential market listings, it includes chapters on copyright, awards and
grants, and writer’s organizations.

That said, the book is far from flawless. Contact phone numbers in the
Daily Newspapers chapter, for example, are not always accurate. Out of
three newspapers picked at random (The Toronto Sun, The Toronto Star,
and The Globe and Mail), two of the phone numbers listed were for the
advertising, not editorial, departments. While this is not a fatal flaw,
it does indicate a certain lack of follow through.

There are also omissions in the magazine listings, which are taken
directly from the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association list. Any
magazine that does not belong to this association does not make it into
the book. Acta Victoriana, which has been in publication since 1878, and
Wascana Review (est. 1966) are both missing from The Canadian Writer’s
Market but appear in the American-published Novel and Short Story
Writer’s Market 1991. For the fledgling writer, the best starting
point is often one of these unlisted Canadian magazines, so perhaps more
effort should be made to include them in the next edition.

Finally, this book could use a general index for writers who already
know the name of a publication but who need a quick address or phone
number. As it stands now, the writer must first figure out under which
category the editor has listed the publication, in an organization that
sometimes seems whimsical. For example, music and art magazines share an
Arts category, but literary magazines are lumped together with
scholarly. Thus Dandelion, a fiction/poetry magazine, shares a category
with Environments, which is devoted to environmental studies, while
Quill & Quire, a magazine about the book trade, is listed among the
Arts.