ZYGOTE seems to have all that’s needed for a good lit mag. Not a stuffy all over your lit crit text type lit mag, but an unpretentious, working hard at something tough, making it a bit swish looking sort of good lit mag. You’ll get poetry, fiction, interviews, reviews and an article or two if you fling three bucks their way. They seem most interested in new writers, and in promoting Manitoba writers, though not down your throat and/or to the exclusion of anything else. Some of the poetry wasn’t inspiring, but some of it was very nice. The fiction had good edge to it, as in interesting language and movement. In fact it was good fiction, short and good. As for non- fiction, one piece looked at the fallacy of reforestation (ie. tree planting) and another was a brief interview with Melinda McCracken. If this issue is any indication of what ZYGOTE sends out four times a year, you would do well to land it on your coffee table.
literary magazine / main creators: Eva Weidman, Chris Kent / $2.95 per, $10 for 4 / 746 Westminister Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3G 1A4