Editing This Magazine (section)

==History and profile==
The magazine was launched "by a gang of school activists" in April 1966<ref>{{cite web|title=A Writer's Guide to Canadian Literary Magazines & Journals|url=https://blog.magazine-awards.com/2013/11/07/a-writers-guide-to-canadian-literary-magazines-journals/|work=National Magazine Awards|accessdate=24 April 2017|date=7 November 2013}}</ref> as ''This Magazine Is About Schools'', a journal covering political issues in the education system.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/1847/ubc_1992_spring_rothstein_harley.pdf?sequence=1|title=The New School, 1962=1977|work=University of British Columbia|date=January 1992|accessdate=17 May 2012|quote=The most important source of early writing on Canadian alternative education is ''This Magazine Is About Schools'', founded in 1966 by Bob Davis, George Martell, and Satu Repo.|page=19|author=Harley S. Rothstein}}</ref><ref name=RyersonReviewOfJournalism2002summer>{{cite news|url=http://www.rrj.ca/m3769/|title=Standing on Guard for THIS: A salute to 35 years of independent thought|work=Ryerson Review of Journalism|date=Summer 2002|accessdate=17 May 2012|quote=Now a national magazine with a political focus and a paid circulation of over 5,000, This was once distributed in an ice cream shop in Toronto's Cabbagetown. Known simply as This since 1995, it started out as This Magazine Is About Schools in 1966. Bob Davis, Satu Repo, and George Martell, a trio of radical teachers, put the first issue together in the basement of an alternative school on a farm near Guelph, Ontario.|author=Miryana Goloubovich|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224045835/http://www.rrj.ca/m3769/|archivedate=24 February 2013}}</ref>

During its early years, its editorial offices were located near the [[University of Toronto]] in space rented from Campus Co-operative Residences Inc., which in the late 1960s spawned the experimental "free university" [[Rochdale College]]. The educational philosophy of Rochdale College was influenced by this association, and by several individuals who published in ''This Magazine'', especially [[Dennis Lee (author)|Dennis Lee]]. The name was shortened to simply ''This Magazine'' in 1973, and it gradually expanded its focus to include a wide variety of political, arts and cultural writing from a progressive perspective.<ref name="dan">{{cite news|author=Daniel H. Johnson|title=This Magazine Is About Schools|url=https://blogs.brown.edu/hallhoag/2014/12/05/this-magazine-is-about-schools/|accessdate=25 August 2016|work=Brown University|date=5 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Red Maple Foundation|url=https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/red-maple-foundation/|work=Canada Helps|accessdate=24 April 2017}}</ref>

''This Magazine'' is one of Canada's longest-publishing alternative journals.<ref name=RyersonReviewOfJournalism2002summer/> Praised for integrating commentary and investigative reporting with in-depth arts coverage, it has been instrumental in trumpeting the new works of young Canadian writers and artists. ''This Magazine'' has introduced the early work of some of Canada's most notable writers, critics and artists.

''This Magazine'' is published bimonthly<ref name="dan"/> by the Red Maple Foundation, a registered charity, and receives financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. It is indexed in the Canadian Periodical Index, the Canadian Literary Press Index, [[Alternative Press Index (index)|Alternative Press Index]] and the Canadian Magazine Index, and on microfiche and microfilm from University Microfilm, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The magazine's current editor is Valerie Howes (Interim Editor) and its current publisher is Lisa Whittington-Hill.<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=http://this.org/about/|work=this.org|accessdate=26 October 2016}}</ref>

Prominent Canadian writers published in ''This Magazine'' have included:

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
*[[Naomi Klein]]
*[[Margaret Atwood]]
*[[Dionne Brand]]
*[[Tomson Highway]]
*[[Evelyn Lau]]
*[[Dennis Lee (author)|Dennis Lee]]
*[[Michael Ondaatje]]
*[[Rick Salutin]]
*[[Stan Persky]]
*[[Mel Watkins]]
*[[Al Purdy]]
*[[Drew Hayden Taylor]]
*[[Doug Saunders]]
*[[Mark Kingwell]]
*[[Sandra Alland]]
*[[Linda McQuaig]]
*[[Darren Wershler-Henry]]
*[[Julie Crysler]]
*[[Hal Niedzviecki]]
*[[Maggie Helwig]]
*[[Leah McLaren]]
*[[Marnie Woodrow]]
*[[André Alexis]]
*[[Stuart Ross]]
*[[Phil Hall (poet)|Phil Hall]]
*Audra Williams
*J. Kelly Nestruck
*[[Clive Thompson (journalist)|Clive Thompson]]
*Matthew Hays
}}