The Cardiff Review closes after eight years

The Cardiff Review has announced its closure after eight years.

The international literary magazine, described by editors as having “equal parts Welsh and Canadian roots”, made the announcement on X, formerly known as Twitter.

"We are following in the unfortunate steps of many great lit mags before us and shutting down @cardiffreview.

"It has been an absolute pleasure, and we hope your next submission is the one to change it all. Thank you, thank you, thank you."

No reason has been given for the closure but several literary journals have recently stopped due to funding challenges. The announcement follows the hiatus of the White Review as well as the end of Bad Form’s online publishing and Gal-Dem’s closure, all earlier this year.

The Cardiff Review published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, criticism (books, theatre, music, art) and in-depth interviews. It was founded in 2015 by four graduate students of Cardiff University’s MA in Creative Writing programme. Initially a digital magazine that published three issues each year, it expanded and transitioned to print the following year before returning to online only in 2018.

It has published more than 200 new voices across fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as interviews with Sheila Heti, Thomas Morris, and Sophie Mackintosh among others.