Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, was founded in Toronto, Canada, in 1978 by the Fireweed Collective. Collective members have included Gay Allison, Lynne Fernie, Hilda Kirkwood, Liz Brady, Elizabeth Ruth

Elizabeth Ruth

Elizabeth Ruth is a Canadian novelist.Ruth was born in Windsor, Ontario, was raised by a single mother, and lived in the United States, Canada, and Colombia while growing up. Ruth earned an Honours BA and an MA from the University of Toronto.Before becoming a published writer, she worked in social...

, Makeda Silvera

Makeda Silvera

Makeda Silvera is a Caribbean Canadian novelist and short story writer.Silvera emigrated to Canada at the age of 12 with her family, and currently lives in Toronto. She published two volumes of short stories in the 1990s before releasing her first novel, "The Revenge of Maria" in 1998, followed by...

, Carolyn Smart

Carolyn Smart

Carolyn Smart is an author, mostly of poetry, who lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She currently teaches Contemporary Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at Queen's University....

 and Rhea Tregebov

Rhea Tregebov

Rhea Tregebov is a Canadian poet and children's writer who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.- Background :Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Tregebov attended the University of Manitoba, Cornell and Boston universities. For many years she lived in Toronto,...

. Issues of Fireweed usually focuses on a theme or topic, such as "Writing" (#10), "Fear & Violence" (#14), "Women of Colour" (#16), "Sex & Sexuality" (#37 & 38), and "Language" (#44/45), though there are frequent "open" issues.

The quarterly's ISSN is 0706-3857.

Reviews

• Review of the Canadian women poets issue by Nanci White "Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, 23 (Summer 1986)" in Canadian Woman Studies
  Canadian Woman Studies
  Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme is a bilingual feminist quarterly published by Inanna Publications. It was founded by Shelagh Wilkinson, who was also the magazine's publisher and first editor.-External links:**...
  
  /les cahiers de la femme

Volume 8, Number 3, 1987.

See also

• Feminism
  Feminism
  Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
  
  
• Literary magazine
  Literary magazine
  A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
  
  
• List of literary magazines
• Women's magazines

External Links

• Contact info according to McClelland & Stewart