Since 2005, the magazine runs an annual competition, the Sheldon Currie Short Fiction Contest.

[1] The winner of the inaugural Sheldon Currie Prize was Nicholas Ruddock.

The Antigonish Review was established in 1970[3][4] with long-term editor-in-chief R. J. MacSween,[5][6] who was succeeded by George Sanderson.

Under MacSween's and Sanderson's editorship there was staunch support of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan from his early days.

[9] The Antigonish Review is credited with nurturing writing talent in Eastern Canada.