Filling Station (magazine)
filling Station is an experimental literary magazine published in Calgary, Alberta, founded in 1993. filling Station publishes three issues per year filled with innovative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, book reviews, and visual art. By consistently providing an exciting contrast to more traditional literary and arts journals, filling Station remains unique among literary magazines both in Canada and abroad. The editorial board of the magazine has always been composed of volunteers, most of whom are writers or artists. The vast majority of emerging writers from Calgary have at one time volunteered on filling Station's editorial board (for instance, derek beaulieu, Natalie Zina Walschots, Natalie Simpson, and Helen Hajnoczky).
filling Station is one of the few literary magazines in Canada that publishes literature from other languages in translation. It is also one of the few literary magazines in Canada that receives no university funding.
Famous quotes containing the words filling and/or station:
“the focused beam
folds all energy in:
the image glares filling all space:
the head falls and
hangs and cannot wake itself.”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth, family, and education become misfortunes when we cannot attain some means of supporting ourselves in the station they throw us into. Our friends and former acquaintances look on it as a disgrace to own us.... If we were to attempt getting our living by any trade, people in that station would think we were endeavoring to take their bread out of their mouths.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)