Group Description

Short fiction, regionally curated.

In an article on the state of literary magazines, Quill and Quire proclaimed, “A savvy, sleek publication, devoted entirely to new short fiction. Based in Toronto, Joyland boasts editors in several major North American cities and in London, England, and has published marquee names such as Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Millet alongside Canadian writers… The future of literary magazines is already here.”

Meanwhile, Montreal's Hour writes, "Joyland.ca is an innovative, online publication devoted to new fiction," and Time Out Chicago has called Joyland "a lovely literary site that has a preoccupation with location... We certainly like the idea of towns self-identifying by virtue of their hometown authors. And so far, the work speaks for itself."