Most literary magazines highlight stories and poems, The Reader Dispensary highlights what they do to us.
Have you ever had a book hangover? Underlined a sentence that felt like it was written for your soul? Or felt like an author reached through the page and tenderly stroked your cheek, or perhaps slapped it? Then TRD was created for you. A literary magazine for readers, by readers.
Tonics for the bookish mind.
Tonics for the bookish mind.
Why another literary magazine?
We focus on the reader.
While many literary magazines centre around fiction and poetry, we centre around the experience of encountering them. Our pages are filled with personal essays and reviews shaped by memory, emotion, and reflection. We want to know where you were when you read that book. Who you were before it, and who you became after.
Your support sustains this space for readers. If you can, or feel inclined to donate to the magazine you will help us reach our goal of paying our contributors for their words (which is so important to us!) and keep TRD existing for generations of readers to come.
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