Descant (magazine)
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| Editor | Karen Mulhallen |
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| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Year founded | 1970 |
| Final issue | 2015 |
| Country | Canada |
| Based in | Toronto |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0382-909X |
Descant (1970 – 2015) was a quarterly literary magazine that published new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world, reflecting "a cosmopolitan awareness." It was established in 1970 as a mimeograph. Based in Toronto, in its later years Descant published two themed issues per year, and a winter and summer miscellany issue. From 2007 to 2014, Descant sponsored the Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem.
The list of contributors to Descant includes numerous now-famous Canadian authors. Many of these are listed in Bibliomania (No. 133, summer 2006) and Bibliomania 2 (No. 135, winter 2006) and include: Margaret Atwood, bill bissett, Nicole Brossard, Anne Carson, Camilla Gibb, Barbara Gowdy, Dennis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Leon Rooke, Jane Urquhart and Jan Zwicky.
The last issue of Descant, No. 167, was launched at Supermarket Restaurant and Bar, in Toronto, in January 2015.
A final party was held at Revival Bar in Toronto on March 25, 2015.
The magazine's extensive archives are located in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.
In 1970, a group of University of Toronto graduate students produced mimeographed copies of the first issue of Descant for the Graduate English Association. Jane Shen was the first editor of Descant and Karen Mulhallen became the editor in 1973 for all subsequent issues. The magazine was run out of her home for the first six years she was editor; Managing Editor Maria (Gould) Meindl worked in Karen Mulhallen's home office for three years.
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