[6] Tamarack Review published literature in a wide variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, travel memoirs, autobiography, literary criticism and drama.
He continues: We can assume that one of their purposes in starting the magazine was to stop talking almost exclusively to each other and begin addressing a somewhat larger world.
Nor is it profitable; editors, in fact, have had to make up its deficit out of their own pockets, and the Canada Council's steady assistance has now become almost a necessity of survival.
Only a contributor can know how true this is: one article I wrote for the Tamarack four years ago has been mentioned to me more often, and discussed more widely, than many piece I have written for publications which have a thousand times as many readers.
[8]Notable writers whose early work was published in Tamarack include Timothy Findley,[4] Hugh Hood, Alice Munro,[4] Jay Macpherson and Mordecai Richler.