Not Enough Good Fiction In Toronto?

Toronto Life’s last annual fiction issue has gone to press. Why no more? Not enough good writing to be found? “Spurred by the realization that Toronto had become one of the world’s literary hot spots, the annual fiction issue was launched in 1997, and has received as many as 200 submissions annually. The magazine canvassed publishers, agents, members of the Writers’ Union and others to gather a range of material. The idea was to find stories consistent with the mandate of the magazine, and for the first three years this proved feasible. But by the fourth year, the magazine was inviting submissions from across the country.” And not finding them.