The Church-Wellesley Review

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The Church-Wellesley Review (

ISSN 1483-8281) was a Canadian literary magazine.[1]

Launched in 1990 as a quarterly supplement in

Xtra!,[2] the Review published literary work by LGBT writers.[2] It was founded by and originally overseen by Xtra! staff editor Jeffrey Round with assistance from freelance contributor Peter Hawkins.[1]

The Review won an international design award from Publish in 1992.[2]

Noted writers who were published in the Review early in their careers included

R.M. Vaughan and Marnie Woodrow; the Review also sometimes published work by established writers such as Timothy Findley, Jane Rule, David Watmough, Patrick Roscoe and Shyam Selvadurai.[3]

Xtra! discontinued the Review in 2000. It was briefly continued as a separate online publication, but folded by 2002.

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